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Country
  
France

Department
  
Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Population
  
275 (1999)

Region
  
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Intercommunality
  
Garazi-Baïgorri

Area
  
5.82 km²

Arrondissement
  
Arrondissement of Bayonne

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Canton
  
Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry

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

Contents

Map of 64220 Ascarat, France

The inhabitants are known as Azkaratear.

Geography

Ascarat is located in the former province of Lower Navarre in the Aldudes Valley immediately north-west of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port. Access to the commune is by the D918 road from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port which passes through the length of the commune on the eastern side and continues to Louhossoa. The D15 road goes north-west from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port through the southern part of the commune continuing to Irouléguy. Access to the village is by country roads - Garategana from the D15 and Learraa from the D918. There are substantial forests in the commune however about 70% of the land area is farmland.

The Nive river forms the eastern border of the commune as it flows north to join the Adour at Bayonne. Three streams flow into the Nive in the commune: the Nive d'Arnéguy, the Nive de Béhérobie, the Berroko erreka, and the Pagolako erreka.

Toponymy

The name Ascarat appears in the forms:

  • Ascarat (1106),
  • Escarat (13th century),
  • Azcarat (1350),
  • Atzcarat (1366),
  • Azquarat (1413),
  • Axcarat (1513, Titles of Pamplona),
  • Axcarate (1621, Martin Biscay), and
  • Sanctus Julianus d'Ascarat (1763, Collations of the Diocese of Bayonne).

    • Jean-Baptiste Orpustan indicated that the name is composed of aitz ("rock") and garate ("high place"), giving "a height of rocks".

    Chubitoa was a hamlet in Ascarat and Anhaux, mentioned in 1863

    Jauréguy was a fief, vassal of the Kingdom of Navarre, cited in the 1863 dictionary as was Larragoyen.

    The commune name in basque is Azkarate.

    History

    The parish was mentioned in 1256 and was "ravaged by soldiers" in 1396.

    In 1391 Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry included the modern communes of Anhaux, Ascarat, Irouléguy, and Lasse.

    Administration

    List of Successive Mayors

    (Not all data is known)

    Inter-communality

    The commune is part of nine inter-communal structures:

  • the Community of communes of Garazi-Baigorri;
  • the SIVOS of Garazi;
  • the SIVU Hiruen Artean;
  • the AEP association of Anhice;
  • the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
  • the inter-communal association for sanitation of Ur Garbi;
  • the inter-communal association for the management and development of the abattoir at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port;
  • the joint association for the Drainage basin of the Nive;
  • the association to support Basque culture.

    • Demography

    In 2010 the commune had 312 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.

    Population Change (See database)

    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 production zone of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) of Irouléguy and also of the AOC zone of Ossau-iraty.

    Economic activity is mainly agricultural.

    Civil heritage

    There are several houses and farms in the commune which are registered as historical monuments. These are:

  • Uhaldea House (18th century)
  • Harizpea Farm (1587)
  • Chateau de Vergues (or Chateau de Fargas) (18th century)
  • Houses and Farms (17th-19th centuries)

    • Religious heritage

    The Church of Saint-Julien-d'Antioche is of medieval origin was heavily rebuilt in the 18th and 19th century.

    Notable people linked to the commune

  • Pierre Narbaitz, born in 1910 at Ascarat and died in 1984 at Cambo-les-Bains, was a historian, writer, and a basque French academic of the Basque and French languages.

    • References

    Ascarat Wikipedia
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