Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast

Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast (Basque: Aiziritze-Gamue-Zohazti) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France.[2]

Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast

Aiziritze-Gamue-Zohazti
Commune
Chateau of Camou
Coat of arms
Location of Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast
Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast
Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast
Coordinates: 43°20′16″N 1°01′21″W
CountryFrance
RegionNouvelle-Aquitaine
DepartmentPyrénées-Atlantiques
ArrondissementBayonne
CantonPays de Bidache, Amikuze et Ostibarre
IntercommunalityPays Basque
Government
 • Mayor (2014-2020) Chantal Erguy
Area
1
9.60 km2 (3.71 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
670
 • Density70/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
64010 /64120
Elevation26–155 m (85–509 ft)
(avg. 83 m or 272 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The people of the commune are known as Aiziriztar.[3]

Geography

Location

The commune is part of the Mixe country in the French Basque Country of Lower Navarre. It is located immediately north of Saint-Palais. Highway D29 runs north from Saint-Palais through the entire commune from south to north and passing through the town. The D529 Highway runs east from the commune to its junction with Highway D134. Highway D933 enters the commune in the southeast and runs north along the eastern side of the commune to exit in the north.[4]

Hydrography

The commune is located in the Drainage basin of the Adour and is watered by the Bidouze, a tributary of the Adour, and it has its tributaries: the Joyeuse and the Eyherachar and Recalde streams.

Places and Hamlets
  • Aguerria
  • Ahano
  • Aïcirits
  • Aiherguy
  • Berhouet
  • Blazy
  • Bordaberry
  • Camou
  • Capou
  • Changartia
  • Chourry
  • Christy (2 place names)
  • Coutrenia
  • Elgartemix
  • Enauthardy
  • Errecaldia
  • Escutary
  • Esquilamborda
  • Etchart
  • Etchebestia
  • Etchecoin
  • Etchegorria
  • Eyhera
  • Eyherabidia
  • Goyhenetchia
  • Halsague
  • L'Hippodrome
  • Hourcadette
  • Ihitzague
  • Ilhardoy
  • Jauberria
  • Larrabure
  • Larramendy
  • Larrania
  • Larrartia
  • Longynia
  • Mandachainia
  • Mendiburia
  • Mocoroua
  • Oyhenart
  • Sagaspe
  • Salha[5]
  • Salle
  • Suhast
  • Tocoua
  • Tolospia
  • Ttarga (craft zone)

[6]

Toponymy

The commune's name in Basque is Aiziritze-Gamue-Zohazti.

For Aïcirits, Jean-Baptiste Orpustan proposed the Basque etymology aitz, meaning "high" and aratze, meaning "fern patch", giving "high fern patch" or "rocky fern patch".[7]

He also indicated that Suhast may come from zuhaztoi, meaning "plantation of trees".

The inhabitants of Camou are known as Gamuar and the inhabitants of Suhast are known as Zohaztiar.

The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.

NameSpellingDateSourcePageOriginDescription
AïciritsSanctus Martinus de Assiriz1160OrpustanVillage
Ayxiritz1316Orpustan
Aysiriz1350Orpustan
Aychiritz1413Orpustan
Ayxeriis1472Raymond
3
Notaries
CamouSactus Petrus de Camono1160OrpustanVillage
Camou-Mixe13th centuryRaymond
39
Bayonne
Camo1304Orpustan
Chamo1309Orpustan
Gamo1350Orpustan
Camo1413Orpustan
Camur1472Raymond
39
Notaries
Camo en Micxe1479Raymond
39
Ohix
Camo1519Raymond
39
Navarre
Camu1621Raymond
39
Biscay
Camon1621Ldh/EHESS/CassiniBiscay
Camou-Mixe1863Raymond
39
SuhastSancta Maria de Suhast1160OrpustanVillage
Suhast1316Orpustan
Suast1350Orpustan
Suhast1413Orpustan
Suast1513Raymond
164
Pamplona
SalhaÇalaha1384Raymond
153
DuchesneChateau and Fief, subject to the Kingdom of Navarre
La maison deu senhor de Salha en lo pays de Micxe1547Raymond
164
Navarre
Uhart-JusonUhart-Juson1863Raymond
170
Fief, vassal of the Kingdom of Navarre

Sources:

Origins:

History

The commune Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast was formed in 1972 by the merger of the former communes Aïcirits and Camou-Mixe-Suhast. Between 1972 and 1984, this commune was referred to as Aïcirits.[2] The commune Camou-Mixe-Suhast was formed in 1842 by the merger of the communes Suhast and Camou-Mixe.[14]

Heraldry
Arms of Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast
 The arms are made up of the three shields of

Aïcirits, Camou, and Suhast.

Blazon:
Argent, three inescutcheons posed 2 and 1. The first Azure with two keys of Or saltirewise to dexter an orb the same banded and crossed at chef argent charged with three crosses pattées of gules; the second of Azure a wolf passant in Or armed and langued in gules, bordure the same charged with eight crosses of St. Andrew of Or 2 at chief, 3 at dexter and 3 at sinister; the third Or with three oaks eradicated vert shaft Tenné

Administration

List of Successive Mayors of Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast [15]

FromToNamePartyPosition
19952014Guy ÉnécoCPNT
2014CurrentChantal ErguyCPNT

(Not all data is known)

Administrative Associations

The commune is linked to the following administrative bodies (non exhaustive list):

  • the catchment area of Saint-Palais
  • Local Agency for Employment (ALE) of Biarritz
  • the social welfare fund of Bayonne
  • the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Bayonne Basque Country
  • the sanitation sector of Bayonne Saint-Palais-South-West-Landes
  • the subdivision of the Departmental Equipment management of Saint-Palais-Bidache

Judicial Districts

The town depends on the district court of Bayonne, the High Court of Bayonne and the Court of Appeal of Pau.

Inter-communality

The commune belongs to six inter-communal structures:[16]

  • the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque
  • the AEP union for the Mixe country
  • the energy union of Pyrenees-Atlantiques;
  • the intercommunal union for regrouping of teaching "Ikas bidea"
  • the intercommunal union for the operation of the schools of Amikuze
  • the union to support Basque culture.

Population

Data before 1972 in the table and graph below refer to the old commune Aïcirits, before the merger with Camou-Mixe-Suhast.[17]

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 206—    
1800 211+0.34%
1806 236+1.88%
1821 186−1.57%
1831 262+3.49%
1836 252−0.78%
1841 261+0.70%
1846 256−0.39%
1851 281+1.88%
1856 252−2.15%
1861 240−0.97%
1866 225−1.28%
1872 211−1.06%
1876 207−0.48%
1881 228+1.95%
1886 254+2.18%
1891 226−2.31%
1896 270+3.62%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901 249−1.61%
1906 238−0.90%
1911 238+0.00%
1921 234−0.17%
1926 249+1.25%
1931 235−1.15%
1936 240+0.42%
1946 202−1.71%
1954 179−1.50%
1962 204+1.65%
1968 219+1.19%
1975 564+14.47%
1982 531−0.86%
1990 531+0.00%
1999 559+0.57%
2007 648+1.86%
2012 656+0.25%
2017 670+0.42%
Source: EHESS[17] and INSEE[18]

Economy

Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast is classified by the INSEE as part of the urban area (unité urbaine) of Saint-Palais, and of the employment area of Oloron-Sainte-Marie.[2]

The registered office of the Lur Berri company, a large food cooperative group, is located in Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast.

The town is part of the designated zone of Ossau-iraty.

It also hosts other companies in the agri-food sector as one of the first fifty two communes of the department:

  • Union agricultural coop feed livestock (feed manufacturing for farm animals);
  • Haraguy-Bayonne ham (industrial preparation of meat products);
  • LBO (food production for farm animals);
  • Lajournade SAS (industrial preparation of meat products).

Culture and heritage

Languages

According to the Map of the Seven Basque Provinces published in 1863 by Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte, the dialect of Basque spoken in Aicirits-Camou-Suhast is eastern low Navarrese.

The village has a cave at Camou (the grotto Oltzibarre) closely linked to the Basque legend of Txahalgorri,[19] the young red bull.

Civil heritage
  • The former Chateau of Camou (17th century).[20] It contains collections of ancient tools and models of machines from plans of Leonardo da Vinci.

Religious Heritage
  • The Church of Saint Martin(1841).[21]

Notable People linked to the commune

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Commune d'Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast (64010), INSEE
  3. Brigitte Jobbé-Duval, Dictionary of place names - Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 2009, Ed. Archives and Culture, ISBN 978-2-35077-151-9, passage 12 (in French)
  4. Google Maps
  5. Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (in French)
  6. Géoportail, IGN (in French)
  7. Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, New Basque Toponymy, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2006, ISBN 2 86781 396 4 (in French)
  8. Notaries of La Bastide-Villefranche in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
  9. Manuscript from the 14th century in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
  10. Contracts retained by Ohix, Notary of Soule, Manuscripts from the 15th century in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
  11. Titles of the Kingdom of Navarre in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
  12. Derecho de naturaleza que la merindad de San-Juan-del-pie-del-puerto, una de las seys de Navarra, tiene en Castilla, 1622 (in Spanish)
  13. Titles published by don José Yanguas y Miranda (in Spanish)
  14. Données Cassini: Camou-Mixe, EHESS
  15. List of Mayors of France (in French)
  16. Intercommunality of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Cellule informatique préfecture 64, consulted on 22 October 2012 (in French)
  17. Données Cassini: Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast, EHESS
  18. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  19. Philippe Veyrin, The Basques, Ed. Arthaud, 1975, ISBN 2700300386, page 233. (in French)
  20. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA00125253 The old Chateau of Camou (in French)
  21. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000679 Parish Church of Saint-Martin (in French)
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