Anos, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Anos is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France.

Anos
Commune
Town hall
Location of Anos
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Coordinates: 43°23′57″N 0°17′29″W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Pau
Canton	Pays de Morlaàs et du Montanérès
Intercommunality	Pays de Morlaàs
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Christelle Desclaux
Area ^1	1.79 km^2 (0.69 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	192
• Density	110/km^2 (280/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	64027 /64160
Elevation	199–305 m (653–1,001 ft) (avg. 250 m or 820 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Anosiens or Anosiennes[2]

The recycling centre

The Main road from the Town Hall

Landscape from the Town Hall

Geography

Anos is located some 15 km north-east of Pau and 10 km south-east of Auriac. Access to the commune is by road D39 from Morlaas in the south passing north through the commune and the village and continuing north to join the D834 just north of Astis. Several other country roads also pass through the commune.

The Lau river forms the western border of the commune with the eastern shore of the Lake of Saint-Amour (also called the Lake of Anos) forming the part just west of the village. The Lau flows north to join the Luy de France which also forms the eastern border of the commune.[3]

Historical Localities and hamlets[4]

• Guilhem
• Guillaumet
• Guiraut
• Jouannes
• Lartigue
• Peyré
• Peys
• Puyau
• Tachoères[5]

[6]

Toponymy

The commune name in Béarnais is Anòs (according to the classical norm of Occitan).

Brigitte Jobbé-Duval[7] indicates that Anos could be of Gallic origin being the name of the property owner Andus plus the suffix -ossu with a proposed meaning of "Domain of Andus".

The name Anos was mentioned in 1243[8] in the Titles of Ossau[9] and in the Cassini map in 1750[10]).

History

Paul Raymond[8] noted on page 6 of the 1863 dictionary that in the 14th century Anos belonged to the community of Preachers of Morlaàs.

The commune was part of the archdeaconry of Vic-Bihl which depended on the diocese of Lescar of which Lembeye was the capital.[8]

Administration

List of Successive Mayors[11]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1995	2008	Jacques Cantonnet
2008	2014	Patrick Yacger
2014	2020	Christelle Desclaux

(Not all data is known)

Inter-communality

Anos is part of five inter-communal structures:[12]

• The Community of communes of Pays de Morlaàs;
• The SIVU for the maintenance of roads, parks and buildings in Barinque;
• The AEP association for the Regions of Luy and Gabas;
• The Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
• The iner-communal association for irrigation of Anos - Saint-Armou.

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 193 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]

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 94 —     1800 86 −8.5% 1821 81 −5.8% 1831 108 +33.3% 1836 126 +16.7% 1841 124 −1.6% 1846 129 +4.0% 1851 95 −26.4% 1856 86 −9.5% 1861 94 +9.3% 1866 108 +14.9% 1872 99 −8.3%

Year Pop. ±% 1876 99 +0.0% 1881 92 −7.1% 1886 89 −3.3% 1891 86 −3.4% 1896 86 +0.0% 1901 89 +3.5% 1906 75 −15.7% 1911 82 +9.3% 1921 67 −18.3% 1926 73 +9.0% 1931 67 −8.2% 1936 65 −3.0%

Year Pop. ±% 1946 58 −10.8% 1954 53 −8.6% 1962 58 +9.4% 1968 40 −31.0% 1975 44 +10.0% 1982 62 +40.9% 1990 120 +93.5% 1999 149 +24.2% 2006 181 +21.5% 2007 185 +2.2% 2012 185 +0.0% 2017 192 +3.8%

Population of Anos

Anos is part of the Urban area of Pau.

Culture and Heritage

Civil heritage

• The Maison Tachoères farmhouse (1768) is registered as an historical monument.[5]
• Other Houses and Farms (18th-19th century) are also registered as historical monuments.[13]

Religious heritage

• The Parish Church of Saint-Laurent (11th century) is registered as an historical monument.[14]

Environmental heritage

An artificial lake called Lake Saint-Armou or Lake of Anos[4] is on the border between the two communes.

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

Notes and references

Notes

1. At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, 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

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Inhabitants of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
3. Google Maps
4. Géoportail, IGN, consulted on 25 November 2011 (in French)
5. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00026891 Maison Tachoères farmhouse (in French)
6. Michel Grosclaude, Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn, 2006, ISBN 2 35068 005 3 (in French)
7. Brigitte Jobbé-Duval, Dictionary of Place Names - Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 2009, Archives and Culture, ISBN 978-2-35077-151-9 (in French)
8. Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (in French)
9. Titles of the Ossau Valley - Departmental archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
10. Cassini Map 1750 - Anos
11. List of Mayors of France
12. Intercommunality of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Cellule informatique préfecture 64, consulted on 25 November 2011 (in French)
13. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00026890 Houses and Farms (in French)
14. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00026892 Parish Church of Saint-Laurent (in French)

External links

• Anos on Lion1906
• Anos on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Anos on the 1750 Cassini Map