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Amendeuix-Oneix

Amendüze-Unaso
Amendeuix-Oneix Amendüze-Unaso
Commune
	The road into Amendeuix
	Coat of arms
	Location of Amendeuix-Oneix
	Amendeuix-Oneix Amendeuix-Oneix
	Coordinates: 43°21′17″N 1°02′34″W / 43.3547°N 1.0428°W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Bayonne
Canton	Pays de Bidache, Amikuze et Ostibarre
Intercommunality	Pays Basque
Government
• Mayor (2024–2026)	Stéphane Poisson
Area 1	7.66 km2 (2.96 sq mi)
Population (2021)	459
• Density	60/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	64018 /64120
Elevation	32–168 m (105–551 ft) ; (avg. 60 m or 200 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Amendeuix-Oneix (French pronunciation: [amɛ̃døʃ ɔnɛʃ]; Basque: Amendüze-Unaso) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Amendüztar.^[3]^[4]

Geography

Amendeuix-Oneix is located some 50 km east by southeast of Bayonne and 40 km south-west of Orthez in the Mixe country in the former Basque province of Lower Navarre. The village can be accessed by the D124 road from Garris in the west passing northeast to the village then continuing north to join the D29. The D11 road also passes through the south of the commune from Garris to Saint-Palais. The small D511 road links the D11 to the D124 within the commune.^[5]

Hydrography

Located in the Drainage divide of the Adour, the northern part of the eastern border of the commune is the Bidouze which flows north to join the Adour west of Peyrehorade. The southern part of the eastern border consists of the Joyeuse with many tributaries rising in the commune including the Algueruko erreka, the Sallarteko erreka, and the Soubiaga erreka. The Aitzeguerris rises just south of the village and flows into the Bidouze.

Localities and hamlets

Amendeuix
Arkausia
Arlania
Arrosteguia
Autrichia
Berhabia
Bidainia
Bordaberria
Candelenia
Errecartia
Etcheberria
Etchetto
Eyheraetcheberry
Gaponteguia
Goitia
Guillenteguia
Hiriberry
Inchaursague
Iribarnia
Jauberria
Jauhenia
Landaçaharia
Larregoyen
Lauhiteya
Mantunia
Oneix
Oyhamburia
Peco-Berthoua
Postateya
Sabrenia
Salla
Vivienborda

^[6]

Toponymy

The current Basque name is Amendüze-Unaso.^[7] Jean-Baptiste Orpustan^[8] suggested that Oneix means the 'place of abundant hills'. Brigitte Jobbé-Duval^[3] however suggested that Oneix came from the Basque Unanu which means the Asphodelus (plant) and signifies a "place where the asphodelus is abundant. She also suggested that the origin of Amendeuix was Aquitane-Roman to designate a noble domain.

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

Name	Spelling	Date	Source	Page	Origin	Description
Amendeuix	Sanctus Joannes de Mindus	1160	Orpustan			Village
	Amindux	1316	Orpustan
	Aminduch	1350	Orpustan
	Aminduz	1413	Orpustan
	Mendux	1413	Orpustan
	Sent-Johan de Mendux	1472	Raymond	5	Notaries
	Armendux	1513	Raymond	5	Pamplona
	Amenduxs	1600	Raymond	5	Pau
	Amendux	1621	Raymond	5	Biscay

Oneix	Sanctus Petrus de Onas	1160	Orpustan			Village
	Onnaçu	1249	Orpustan
	Oneyx	1316	Orpustan
	Honeis	1350	Orpustan
	Onasso	1394	Orpustan
	Onex	1472	Raymond	125	Notaries
	Onecx	1513	Raymond	125	Pamplona
	Oniz	1621	Raymond	125	Biscay
	Onazo	1863	Raymond	125		Basque

Hiriberry	Hiriberry	1863	Raymond	78		Hamlet

Jauréguy	Jauréguy	1863	Raymond	85		Fief, Vassal of the Kingdom of Navarre

Lanevieille	La noble salle de Lanevielhe d'Amenduxs	1600	Raymond	91	Pau	Fief, Vassal of the Kingdom of Navarre
	Lanavieja	1621	Raymond	92	Biscay
	Lanevieille	1863	Raymond	91

Salla	La Salle	1863	Raymond	154		Fief, Vassal of the Kingdom of Navarre

Sources:

Orpustan: Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, New Basque Toponymy^[8]
Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (in French)^[9]
Cassini: Cassini Map from 1750^[10]

Origins:

Notaries: Notaries of Labastide-Villefranche^[11]
Pamplona: Titles of Pamplona^[12]
Pau: Titles of the Chamber of the Counts of Pau^[13]
Biscay: Martin Biscay^[14]

History

In the 16th century (1594), evidence of witchcraft was reported by an admonition to the States of Navarre by the Prosecutor of Mixe (together with those of Arberoue, Ostabaret, Irissarry, Ossès, Baigorri, and La Bastide-Clairence), who complained of a lack of prosecution and requesting that each town or district of Lower Navarre elect "two men of good character who are not suspects to find and punish the perpetrators of these crimes of witchcraft, apostasy, and magic: to be joined with the people of Roy and all at the expense of those convicted or, in case of insolvency, to those countries and places which will be instructed". Part of this admonition followed a request from the inhabitants of Amendeuix dating from 1587 who claimed to have been victims of "spells that were manifested mainly by evil barking".^[15]

The village of Oneix joined with Amendeuix to form the commune of Amendeuix-Oneix on 27 August 1846.

Heraldry

Arms of Amendeuix-Oneix	Blazon: Quarterly, 1 and 4 of Or with an Oak vert debruised by a boar of sable at the foot of the tree; at 2 and 3 party per fesse wavy of argent and azure.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[16]

From	To	Name
1837	1846	Jean Longy
1846	1848	Jean-Paul Larregoyen
1848	1871	Jean Longy
1871	1873	Franck d'Andurain
1873	1884	Gabriel Longy
1884	1885	Rémy Etcheto
1885	1909	Gabriel Longy
1909	1912	M Sabalette
1912	1938	Jean-Pierre Longy
1938	1945	Auguste de Castelbajac
1959	1974	Léon Longy
1995	2001	Arnaud Mandagaran
2001	2014	Armel Pierre Drouilhet
2014	2020	Arnaud Mandagaran
2020	2024	Jean-Marc Trenthomas
2024	2026	Stéphane Poisson

Inter-Communality

The commune belongs to seven inter-communal structures:

the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque
the AEP Association for Mixe country
the sanitation association for Saint-Palais - Luxe-Sumberraute
the association for school buses of Amendeuix-Oneix and Gabat
the energy association for Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
the inter-communal association for the operation of schools in Amikuze
the association supports Basque culture

Demography

In 1350 nine fires were reported in Oneix and 15-18 in Amendeuix.^[17]

The fiscal census of 1412-1413,^[18] made^[19] on the orders of Charles III of Navarre, compared with that of 1551 men and weapons that are in this kingdom of Navarre this side of the ports,^[20] reveals a demography with strong growth. The first census indicated the presence of 13 fires in Amendeuix with the second showing 40 (33 + 7 secondary fires). The same census reported 8 fires in Oneix in 1412-1413 against 17 (14 + 3 secondary fires) in 1551.

The census of the population of Lower Navarre in 1695^[21] counted 63 fires at Amendeuix and 20 at Oneix.

In 2017 the commune had 448 inhabitants. The population data given in the table and graph below include the former commune of Oneix.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	341	—
1800	406	+2.52%
1806	416	+0.41%
1821	409	−0.11%
1831	446	+0.87%
1836	460	+0.62%
1841	433	−1.20%
1846	424	−0.42%
1851	412	−0.57%
1856	389	−1.14%
1861	372	−0.89%
1866	376	+0.21%
1872	391	+0.65%
1876	353	−2.52%
1881	363	+0.56%
1886	385	+1.18%
1891	335	−2.74%
1896	336	+0.06%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	342	+0.35%
1906	361	+1.09%
1911	360	−0.06%
1921	352	−0.22%
1926	321	−1.83%
1931	336	+0.92%
1936	295	−2.57%
1946	297	+0.07%
1954	294	−0.13%
1962	286	−0.34%
1968	289	+0.17%
1975	329	+1.87%
1982	327	−0.09%
1990	381	+1.93%
1999	367	−0.42%
2007	412	+1.46%
2012	428	+0.76%
2017	448	+0.92%

Source: EHESS^[22]^[23] and INSEE^[24]

Economy

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

Culture and Heritage

Languages

According to the Map of the Seven Basque Provinces published in 1863 by Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte the dialect of Basque spoken in Amendeuix-Oneix is eastern low Navarrese.

Religious heritage

Two churches in the commune are registered as historical monuments:

The Church of Saint Peter (1787)^[25] at Oneix.
The Church of Saint John the Baptist (1903)^[26] at Amendeuix.

Amenities

Education

The commune has a kindergarten.

Amendeuix, Gabat, Ilharre, and Labets-Biscay have partnered to create an inter-educational grouping (RPI^[27]).

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 16 April 2024.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b Brigitte Jobbé-Duval, Dictionary of place-names - Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 2009, Archives and Culture, ISBN 978-2-35077-151-9 (in French)
^ Euskaltzaindia - Academy of the Basque Language
^ Google Maps
^ Géoportail, IGN (in French)
^ Euskaltzaindia - Academy of the Basque language (in French)
^ ^a ^b Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, New Basque Toponymy, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2006, 246 pages, ISBN 2 86781 396 4 (in French)
^ Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (in French)
^ Cassini Map 1750 – Amendeuix-Oneix
^ Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
^ Titles published by don José Yanguas y Miranda (in Spanish)
^ Titles of the Chamber of the Counts of Pau in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
^ Derecho de naturaleza que la merindad de San-Juan-del-pie-del-puerto, una de las seys de Navarra, tiene en Castilla, 1622 (in Spanish)
^ Philippe Veyrin, The Basques, Arthaud, 1975, ISBN 2 7003 0038 6, p. 248. (in French)
^ List of Mayors of France
^ Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, Collective work, Amikuze-Mixe Country, Éditions Izpegi, 1992, ISBN 2 909262 05 7, p. 77 (in French)
^ Census cited by Manex Goyhenetche in General History of Basque Country - Vol. 3, Elkarlanean, 2001, ISBN 2 9131 5634 7, p. 26. (in French). The same work by Manex Goyhenetche indicated on page 284 that there was an average of 5.5 people per fire.
^ Transcribed and published by Ricardo Cierbide, Censos de población de la Baja Navarra, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen, 1993
^ Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, E 575, transcribed by Louis Baratchart in The Friends of Old Navarre, January 1995, pages 44-54 (in French)
^ Bibliothèque nationale, 6956, Moreau Register 979, cited by Manex Goyhenetche in General History of Basque Country - Vol. 3, Elkarlanean, 2001, ISBN 2 9131 5634 7, page 299 (in French)
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Amendeuix-Oneix, EHESS (in French).
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Oneix, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000681 Church of Saint Peter (in French)
^ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000680 Church of Saint John the Baptist (in French)
^ RPI website (in French)

External links

[1] "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 16 April 2024.

[popleg2021-2] "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.

[Jobbé-3] Brigitte Jobbé-Duval, Dictionary of place-names - Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 2009, Archives and Culture, ISBN 978-2-35077-151-9 (in French)

[4] Euskaltzaindia - Academy of the Basque Language

[Google-5] Google Maps

[Géo-6] Géoportail, IGN (in French)

[7] Euskaltzaindia - Academy of the Basque language (in French)

[Orpustan-8] Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, New Basque Toponymy, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2006, 246 pages, ISBN 2 86781 396 4 (in French)

[Raymond-9] Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (in French)

[Cassini-10] Cassini Map 1750 – Amendeuix-Oneix

[Notaires-11] Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)

[Pampelune-12] Titles published by don José Yanguas y Miranda (in Spanish)

[Chambre_des_comptes_de_Pau-13] Titles of the Chamber of the Counts of Pau in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)

[14] Derecho de naturaleza que la merindad de San-Juan-del-pie-del-puerto, una de las seys de Navarra, tiene en Castilla, 1622 (in Spanish)

[15] Philippe Veyrin, The Basques, Arthaud, 1975, ISBN 2 7003 0038 6, p. 248. (in French)

[16] List of Mayors of France

[JB_Orpustan-17] Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, Collective work, Amikuze-Mixe Country, Éditions Izpegi, 1992, ISBN 2 909262 05 7, p. 77 (in French)

[18] Census cited by Manex Goyhenetche in General History of Basque Country - Vol. 3, Elkarlanean, 2001, ISBN 2 9131 5634 7, p. 26. (in French). The same work by Manex Goyhenetche indicated on page 284 that there was an average of 5.5 people per fire.

[19] Transcribed and published by Ricardo Cierbide, Censos de población de la Baja Navarra, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen, 1993

[20] Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, E 575, transcribed by Louis Baratchart in The Friends of Old Navarre, January 1995, pages 44-54 (in French)

[21] Bibliothèque nationale, 6956, Moreau Register 979, cited by Manex Goyhenetche in General History of Basque Country - Vol. 3, Elkarlanean, 2001, ISBN 2 9131 5634 7, page 299 (in French)

[ehess-22] Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Amendeuix-Oneix, EHESS (in French).

[23] Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Oneix, EHESS (in French).

[pophist-24] Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

[25] Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000681 Church of Saint Peter (in French)

[26] Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000680 Church of Saint John the Baptist (in French)

[27] RPI website (in French)

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