Anhaux (French pronunciation: [anoks]; Basque: Anhauze)^[3] is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France. It is part of the former province of Lower Navarre.^[3]

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Commune
The fronton at Anhaux
Coat of arms
Location of Anhaux
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Coordinates: 43°10′N 1°17′W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Bayonne
Canton	Montagne Basque
Intercommunality	Pays Basque
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	André Changala[1]
Area 1	12.33 km2 (4.76 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	377
• Density	31/km2 (79/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	64026 /64220
Elevation	180–1,247 m (591–4,091 ft) (avg. 189 m or 620 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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The inhabitants of the commune are known as Anhauztar.^[4][5]

Anhaux is located some 2 km west of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and some 10 km south of Ossès. Access to the commune is solely by country roads branching from the D15 road passing to the north of the commune. The commune consists of farmland in the north with the southern part more rugged and hilly.

The commune is drained by several left tributaries of the Nive (Adour drainage basin).^[6] The Ontzeroneker erreka' - a tributary of the Nive d'Arnéguy - with many tributaries rising in the commune forms the southern border with Lasse commune. A right tributary of the Berroko erreka, the Aparraineko erreka flows down from the Artzaïnharria (971 m).

Localities and hamlets

The Napoleonic land registry divided the commune into 16 districts in 1840:

Districts in Section A called The Village

• village
• church
• Berterretcheco bordaldia
• Chubitoa
• Espillacoborda
• Lececo borda
• Mendione
• Ourdoy

Districts in Section B called Honçaron

• Elhorichury
• Haspalaunecoborda
• Laco
• Listour Erreca
• Mounocabal
• Mounhoa
• Olheguy
• Tambourinanea

Heguy was an old district, extending that of Choubitoa.

Today, the following localities are listed:^[7]

• Alcateneko Borda
• Amigna
• Aparrainéko Ithurria
• Apezteguikoborda
• Azaldeyko Borda
• Béharria
• Berteretchéko Borda
• Bidartea
• Bidarteko Borda
• Biraburuko Borda
• Bordachuria
• Chochuaénéa
• Chochuainea
• Chokoa
• Chuberaénéa
• Chubitoa^[8]
• Curutchaldéa
• Erratchuénéa
• Erdoyko Borda
• Erguinéko Borda
• Etcherriko Borda
• Etchéverriko Borda
• Eyhérartéko Borda
• Eyherartia^[9]
• Haspelanéko Borda
• Hiriartéa
• Idioïnéko Borda
• Lacoa
• Laxagua^[10]
• Lazkoborda
• Maldacharréko Borda
• Minhondoko Borda
• Nignigna
• Peilloénéa
• Col Urdanzia
• Urchiloko Borda
• Urdiako Lepoa

The commune name in basque is Anhauze.^[3][11]

Brigitte Jobbé-Duval^[4] proposed a basque origin of ona-oz, meaning "place of the hill".

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

Sources:

• Grosclaude: Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, 2006 (in French)^[12]
• Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (in French)^[8]

Origins:

• Mérimée: Presentation of the Commune^[13]
• Pamplona: Titles of Pamplona^[14]
• Biscay: Martin Biscay^[15]
• Collations: Collations of the Diocese of Bayonne^[16]

Anhaux village is one of eleven hamlets or villages which were in the Baigorry Valley. In the Middle Ages, the eleven hamlets were: Ascarat, Sorhoeta, Moussourits, Lasse, Irouleguy, Urdos, Leispars, Occos, Oticoren, Guermiette, and Anhauz, all in the north of the valley. The south was not populated until much later. Despite sounding Basque, the name of this village seems to defy all analysis. The oldest document known on which the name Anhaux appears is now the cartulary of the abbey of Saint-Jean of Sorde where it appears in the 10th century.

Father Haristoy in his book Research on the Basque Country noted that recorded in this cartulary were:

• "1068-1072 Oz Guilhem de Onotz and his wife received from Saint-Jean a piece of land located at Anhaux subject to they and their successors providing security and seven loaves, one pig, one pint of wine, and two measures of provisions";
• "1072-1100 Fort Garcies de Onoz with his wife Farguild, and son undertook to give in perpetuity to Saint-Jean (of Sordes) six loaves, two measures of cider, and two civades".

The Benedictine Abbey in question was founded in the 9th century north-east of Navarre. It was, as with all the monasteries at the time, a vast agricultural area spread along the mountain streams in Orthe country and lower Navarre and, according to the two cited references, in the parish of Anhaux.

It was around 1023 that King Sancho III of Navarre founded the fief of the Viscounty of Baigory in favour of Garcias Lop who was related. The creation of the hamlet itself, on the viscounts' lands, therefore dates back to this period. Thus from the 11th century the status of houses at Anhaux was defined by the writer Jean-Baptiste Orpustan.^[17] He provided a list of houses existing in the Middle Ages in Anhaux. This document was created from the archives from 1350, 1366, and 1412.

Of the twenty-eight houses found there, four were noble (only the house was noble and so the owners were considered as such), the others were fivatiéres which means that they paid a fee in crops, work, or money and were built on the land of the "Lord" of the main house.

The successive Viscounts of Baigorry then of Echaux enjoyed the tithes of the village until their liquidation in 1792.

The arms Anhaux are those of the Apesteguy family. They were adopted by the municipal council on 30 July 1993. Pierre Haristoy^[18] wrote that the Apesteguy were lords of Jaureguia and of Anhaux and nominated the priest for the area. In deeds before 1670 several of the Apesteguy appear as noble. Towards 1720 Jean-Pierre d'Apesteguy was received by the States of Navarre. The house of Apesteguia was, until the 18th century, the Lay Abbey for the area. Its members played an important role in the valley until the end of the 19th century.

The Cassini map, made in the 18th century shows a parish consisting of:

• the village of Anhaux with a parish church;
• the hamlet of Choubitoua: currently a district of the same name;
• the hamlet of Bassabouria: currently the Olheguy district;
• the hamlet of Ounsaharte: currently the Lacoa district;
• the hamlet of Ançonne: currently the Tambourine district and part of the Mounhoa district on the slopes of Arrola peak.

List of Successive Mayors^[19]

In 2017 the commune had 387 inhabitants.

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Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 604 —     1800 590 −0.33% 1806 336 −8.96% 1821 533 +3.12% 1831 607 +1.31% 1836 697 +2.80% 1841 710 +0.37% 1846 705 −0.14% 1851 622 −2.47% 1856 642 +0.63% 1861 630 −0.38% 1866 607 −0.74% 1872 572 −0.98% 1876 570 −0.09% 1881 588 +0.62% 1886 518 −2.50% 1891 496 −0.86% 1896 453 −1.80%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 419 −1.55% 1906 430 +0.52% 1911 387 −2.09% 1921 371 −0.42% 1926 365 −0.33% 1931 341 −1.35% 1936 321 −1.20% 1946 318 −0.09% 1954 293 −1.02% 1962 272 −0.93% 1968 285 +0.78% 1975 275 −0.51% 1982 274 −0.05% 1990 310 +1.56% 1999 247 −2.49% 2007 285 +1.80% 2012 344 +3.83% 2017 387 +2.38%
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Source: EHESS[20] and INSEE[21]

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The commune is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) of Irouléguy and also the AOC of Ossau-iraty. Economic activity is principally agricultural.

Jean Iraçabal, born in 1851 at Anhaux and died in 1929 (buried at Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry), was a decorated French military officer.

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department