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The mountain boasts an almost perfect pyramidal shape and is surrounded by the spectacular karst landscape of. ''Larra'', ...
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Arbotiar''.
Peyrehorade
Peyrehorade (; ) is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Peyrehorade station has rail connections to Bayonne, Pau and Tarbes.
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*Communes of the Landes department
The followi ...
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
. 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
. 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.Google Maps /ref>
Located in the
Drainage basin
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of the
Adour
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, the commune is traversed 3 by tributaries of the
basque
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is ''Arboti-Zohota''.
According to Jean-Baptiste Orpustan ''Arboti'' is the spelling preserved in
basque
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* Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France
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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:
*Orpustan: Jean-Baptiste Orpusta ''New Basque Toponymy'' p. 66-67 ''New Basque Toponymy'' Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2006, p. 66-67
*
Raymond
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Pamplona
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Mixe Mixe may refer to:
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* Sierra Mixe
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fires
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in Sussaute.Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, Collective work, ''Amikuze - the Mixe Country'', Éditions Izpegi, 1992, , page 77
The fiscal census of 1412–1413, made on the orders of
Charles III of Navarre
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, 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
in 1695 counted 52 fires in Arbouet and 50 in Sussaute.
In 2017 the commune had 322 inhabitants. The population data given in the table and graph below include the former commune of Sussaute, absorbed in 1842.
Zubia Arbotin lubakiaren gainean (Naf B, EH).jpg, D134 road bridge over the old railway cutting
Gurutzea Arbotin (Naf B, EH).jpg, A cross near the railway cutting
Zubia Donapaleu-Pujòu trenbidean (Naf B, EH).jpg, Old railway bridge near the D134 road
Arboti-Zohotako Herriko Etxea (Naf B, EH).jpg, Town Hall
Zubia trenbidearen gainean Arbotin (Naf B, EH).jpg, Towards Sussaute in the distance
Arbotiko frontoia (Naf B, EH).jpg, The Fronton
Arbotiko sarrera (Naf B, EH).jpg, Entrance to Arbouet
Arbotiko lubakia III (Naf B, EH).jpg, Old railway cutting
Arbotiko lubakia (Naf B, EH).jpg, Old railway cutting