Country France Department Pyrénées-Atlantiques Intercommunality Amikuze Area 14.55 km² | Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine Canton Saint-Palais Population (2009) 280 Arrondissement Bayonne | |
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Arbouet-Sussaute (Basque: Arboti-Zohota) is a French commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine of south-western France.
Contents
- Map of 64120 Arbouet Sussaute France
- Geography
- Toponymy
- History
- Administration
- Inter communality
- Demography
- Economy
- Religious heritage
- Education
- References
Map of 64120 Arbouet-Sussaute, France
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arbotiar.
Geography
Arbouet-Sussaute is located in the former province of Lower Navarre some 30 km south-east of Peyrehorade and 5 km north-east of Saint-Palais. The D933 road from Saint-Palais in the south-west passes north through the western part of the commune and continues to Osserain-Rivareyte. Access to the village is by the D134 road from the D29 in the north passing south through the village and the commune and continuing south to join the D11 just west of Domezain-Berraute. The intercity bus network of Pyrénées-Atlantiques currently has a stop on its route 865 which goes from Saint-Palais to Orthez. There is also the hamlet of Sussaute to the south-east of the village. A disused line of railway passes from the north to the south-west through the commune.
Located in the Drainage basin of the Adour, the commune is traversed 3 by tributaries of the Bidouze: the Ruisseau de Récalde and the Lauhirasse and its tributary the Berd.
Toponymy
The commune name in basque is Arboti-Zohota.
According to Jean-Baptiste Orpustan Arboti is the spelling preserved in basque but the meaning is uncertain. If it is from the Latin (borrowed from arbor(e)), the name may signify a wooded place. For Zohota (Sussaute) he suggests a basque origin of zozoeta meaning "Place of blackbirds".
The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.
Sources:
Origins:
History
The village of Sussaute was joined with Arbouet on 14 June 1842.
Administration
List of Successive Mayors
(Not all data is known)
Inter-communality
The commune is part of six inter-communal structures:
Demography
In 1350 there were 11 fires in Sussaute.
The fiscal census of 1412-1413, made on the orders of Charles III of Navarre, compared with the census of men and weapons that are in this Kingdom of Navarre below the ports in 1551 reveals a demography with strong growth. The first indicated the presence in Arbouet of 12 fires, the second with 31 (24 + 7 secondary fires). Similarly in Sussaute, the census of 1412-1413 had 7 fires while that of 1551 had 23 (19 + 4 side lights).
The census of the population of Lower Navarre in 1695 counted 52 fires in Arbouet and 50 in Sussaute.
In 2009 the commune had 280 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.
Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)
Economy
The commune is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) zone of Ossau-iraty.
Religious heritage
The Parish Church of Saint John the Baptist (1860) is registered as an historical monument.
Education
The town has a kindergarten.