Armendarits

Armendarits
Armendarits
	Armendarits Town Hall
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	Armendarits
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Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Bayonne
Canton	Iholdy
Intercommunality	Iholdi-Ostibarre
Government
• Mayor (1989–2020)	Lucien Delgué
Area1	17.27 km2 (6.67 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	381
• Density	22/km2 (57/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	64046 / 64640
Elevation	99–403 m (325–1,322 ft); (avg. 182 m or 597 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Armendarits (Basque: Armendaritze) is a French commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Aquitaine region of south-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Armendariztar.^[1]^[2]

Lower Navarre House from 1775

Sculpted Lintel

Geography

Amendarits is located some 12 km south-west of Saint-Palais and some 8 km north-east of Irissarry and is in the former province of Lower Navarre. Access to the commune is by road D300 from Iholdy in the south to the village. The D8 going east from Iholdy also passes through the southern part of the commune. The D245 from Hélette in the west passes through the commune and the village and continues north to join the D14 just south-east of Méharin. There is also the D408 which links the village to the D8 road inside the commune. Apart from a few patches of forest the commune is entirely farmland.^[3]

Numerous streams rise in the commune: the Erreka Handia and its tributaries flows north past the village, the Iharte also flows north to the east of the village, and the Ossinako Erreka forms part of the south-western border as it flows south.^[3]

Places and Hamlets^[4]

Aguerréa^[5]
Aïntziondoa
Albinoritzéko Borda (2 toponyms)
Albinoritzia
Altchia
Alziéta
Ameztoya
Arbéletchia
Armandegia
Baratchartéa
Barnetchia
Bazterrechia
Behamendy
Béhitia
Bidondoa
Bigégaïnéa
Bistaberry
Bordaberria
Bordaberriko Borda
Bordamaria
Bordécharria
Bourdinateguia
Carrica
Céhabia
Chichabalé
Chimounénéa
Chingolaénéa
Chocohonia
Curutzétako Borda^[5]
Donamaria
Donapétria
Donapétriko Borda
Donamaria
Donastéya
Elhina
Elinume
Elizabéhéréko Borda
Elizatchéko Borda
Errékartéa
Etchartéa
Etchebarne^[5]
Etchébazterréa
Etchégoïnberria
Etchégoïnberriko Borda
Etchégorria
Etchénika
Etchéparéa
Eyhérabidé
Eyhéraldéa
Eyhéramounoa
Fermindéguia
Ferminéko Borda
Gaïneko-Etchebarnéa
Gaïneko-Meharu
Garatéa
Garatéko Borda
Haramburua
Harizhanditéguia
Hatsandigaraia
Iparréa
Iribarnéa
Irigaraya
Ithurburua
Ithurburuko Borda
Jauregia^[6]
Jauréguicharria
Landetxeberri
Larraldéa
Larramendia
Lazalen Borda
Legartoa
Lekunberria
Marihanditéguia
Mehatzia
Mendihilia
Mendiondo
Mendirigaraya
Olhanéko Borda
Olharanéa
Orgalitegia
Ossina
Oyhanburua
Oyhénartéa
Pékoborda
Pochulua
Salla
Sallaberria
Sallaberriko Borda
Sallagoitinéa
Sorhoéta
Sorogaraia^[7] or Sorhogaraya
Suhartéko Borda
Teïleria
Uhaldea^[8]
Uhartéa
Urrutia^[9]
Urritiko Borda
Zedarria

Neighbouring communes and villages^[3]

Toponymy

The commune name in Basque is Armendaritze.^[2]

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

Name	Spelling	Date	Source	Page	Origin	Description
Armendarits	Armandarys	1249	Orpustan	113		Village
	Armendariz	1256	Raymond	10	Bayonne
	Sancta Maria de Armendaridz	1256	Raymond	10	Bayonne
	Armendariz	1264	Orpustan	113
	Armendarriz	1292	Orpustan	113
	Armendaritz	1366	Orpustan	113
	Armendaritz	1413	Orpustan	113
	Armendaritz	1428	Raymond	10	Duchesne
	Arbendaritz	1529	Raymond	10	Chapter

Aguerréa	Aguerre	1863	Raymond	3		Fief, vassal of the Kingdom of Navarre

Curutzétako Borda	La Croix Boria	1863	Raymond	34		Place of pilgrimage

Élissetche	Élissetche	1863	Raymond	58		Fief, vassal of the Kingdom of Navarre

Etchebarne	Etchebarne	1863	Raymond	63		Place of pilgrimage

Sources:

Orpustan: Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, New Basque Toponymy^[10]
Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (French)^[5]

Origins:

Bayonne: Cartulary of Bayonne or Livre d'Or (Book of Gold)^[11]
Duchesne: Duchesne collection volume CXIV^[12]
Chapter: Titles of the Chapter of Bayonne^[13]

History

Paul Raymond^[5] noted on page 10 of his 1863 disctionary that Armendarits was a former Barony, vassal of the Kingdom of Navarre.

Heraldry

	These arms were adopted by the town council in 2002 and are those of the Lords of Armendarits.^[14] The blazon of quarters 2 and 3 are those of the village of Armendarits Blazon: Quarterly, 1 and 4 Azure with a castel turreted masoned in Sable, port and windows the same; 2 and 3 two cows Gules horned, hoofed, collared, and belled in Argent arranged in pale.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[15]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1939	1964	Bertrand Ilharreborde
1964	1986	Juliette Richard
1986	1989	Laurent Garat
1989	2020	Lucien Delgue	UMP	President of the Community of Communes

(Not all data is known)

Inter-communality

Armendarits is part of seven inter-communal structures:

the Community of communes of Iholdi-Ostibarre;
the AEP association of Arberoue;
the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
the inter-communal association for school transport and educational grouping of Méharin and Armendarits;
the inter-communal association for development and management of the slaughterhouse at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port;
the joint association Garbiki;
the association to support Basque culture.

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 381 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
706	764	799	805	840	792	809	840	818

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
812	784	751	746	715	705	681	632	638

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
631	623	600	562	510	506	559	512	420

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2009	-
446	420	396	386	372	357	-	381	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Population of Armendarits

Economy

Economic activity is mainly agricultural. The commune is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) zone of Ossau-iraty.

Culture and Heritage

Civil Heritage

Several buildings and sites in the commune are registered as historical monuments:

The Jauregia Manor (17th century)^[6]
The Urrutia Farmhouse (1636)^[9]
The Uhaldea Farmhouse (1780)^[8]
The Sorogaraia Farmhouse (1602)^[7]
Houses and Farms (17th-19th century)^[16]

Other sites of interest

A protohistoric fortified place (a gaztelu zahar) at Elhina.

Houses in Armendarits Picture Gallery

Sculpted Lintel
A sculpted breezeblock
A Lower Navarre House
A Lower Navarre House
A Lower Navarre House
A window on a Lower Navarre house
An Atalburu

Religious Heritage

The Church of Saint Peter with the fronton

The Parish Church of Saint Peter (17th century).^[17] Its cemetery contains many Hilarri:

Hilarri Picture Gallery

Facilities

Education

The commune has a primary school.

Notable people linked to the commune

Bernard Renau d'Eliçagaray (Eñaut d'Elizagarai), called little Renau, born in 1652 at Armendarits and died in 1719, was a mathematician, Inspector General of the Navy, in 1689 author of the Theory of Operation of Vessels.^[18] He was especially famous for his Bomb vessels.^[19] The pastoral of Soule in 2007 (at Camou-Cihigue) was dedicated to him.

Notes and references

Notes

↑ At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

↑ Brigitte Jobbé-Duval, Dictionary of place names - Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 2009, Archives and Culture, ISBN 978-2-35077-151-9 (French)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Euskaltzaindia - Academy of the Basque Language (Basque)
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Google Maps
↑ Géoportail, IGN (French)
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 ^5.4 Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (French)
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000771 Jauregia Manor (French)
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000768 Sorogaraia Farmhouse (French)
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000769 Uhaldea Farmhouse (French)
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000770 Urrutia Farmhouse (French)
↑ Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, New Basque Toponymy, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2006, ISBN 2 86781 396 4 (French)
↑ Manuscript from the 14th century in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
↑ Duchesne Collection, volumes 99 to 114, containing the papers of Oihenart, former Imperial Librarian - Bibliothèque nationale de France
↑ Chapter of Bayonne in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
↑ Arms of France (French)
↑ List of Mayors of France (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000819 Houses and Farms (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000818 Parish Church of Saint Peter (French)
↑ Manex Goyhenetche, General History of Basque Country - Vol. 3, Elkarlanean, 2001, ISBN 2 9131 5634 7, page 225. (French)
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[16] At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

[Jobb.C3.A9-1] Brigitte Jobbé-Duval, Dictionary of place names - Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 2009, Archives and Culture, ISBN 978-2-35077-151-9 (French)

[Toponimia_.28leku-izenak.29-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Euskaltzaindia - Academy of the Basque Language (Basque)

[Google-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Google Maps

[G.C3.A9o-4] Géoportail, IGN (French)

[Raymond-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 ^5.4 Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (French)

[Jauregia-6] 6.0 ^6.1 Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000771 Jauregia Manor (French)

[Sorogaraia-7] 7.0 ^7.1 Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000768 Sorogaraia Farmhouse (French)

[Uhaldea-8] 8.0 ^8.1 Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000769 Uhaldea Farmhouse (French)

[Urrutia-9] 9.0 ^9.1 Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000770 Urrutia Farmhouse (French)

[Orpustan-10] Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, New Basque Toponymy, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2006, ISBN 2 86781 396 4 (French)

[Cartulary-11] Manuscript from the 14th century in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)

[Duchesne-12] Duchesne Collection, volumes 99 to 114, containing the papers of Oihenart, former Imperial Librarian - Bibliothèque nationale de France

[Chapter-13] Chapter of Bayonne in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)

[14] Arms of France (French)

[15] List of Mayors of France (French)

[17] Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000819 Houses and Farms (French)

[18] Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000818 Parish Church of Saint Peter (French)

[19] Manex Goyhenetche, General History of Basque Country - Vol. 3, Elkarlanean, 2001, ISBN 2 9131 5634 7, page 225. (French)

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