Alos-Sibas-Abense

Alos-Sibas-Abense is located some 90 km south-east of Bayonne and 80m km west of Lourdes. The D918 road runs down the eastern border of the commune, but does not enter. Access to the commune is on road D247 from Alcay-Alcabehety-Sunharette in the southwest which runs through the heart of the commune to the village. It then continues to the southeast linking with the D918 at Tardets-Sorholus. Most of the commune is farmland with some forest and it has a network of country roads covering most of the commune.[https://www.google.com/maps/place/64470+Alos-Sibas-Abense,+France/@43.114877,-0.8771961,6653m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0xd571f1788b616c7:0x40665174813ae90?hl=en Google Maps]

Located in the Drainage basin of the Adour, the Saison river passes along and forms the eastern border of the commune parallel with the D918 road. The Aphoura stream (18 km), which is fed by the Ardounc, the Batasse (10.1 km), the Laritolle, the Jaga, and the Uthurrotche erreka, flows near the village and to the Saisson.

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• Abense
• Althondo
• Ansola
• Barnech
• Basterrèche
• Basterreix
• Belle-Sise
• Canderats
• Choy-Cantaguia
• Curutchet
• Domec
• Eskiéta
• Etchandy
• Eyhéra
• Hastoy
• Mendiondoa
• Mendisquer
• Ohix
• La Papeterie
• Péko Urupéa
• Quihillaborda
• La Salle
• Samalgagna
• Sibas
• Uhalte-Borde

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|North = Trois-Villes

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|East = Tardets-Sorholus

|Southeast = Montory

|South = Laguinge-Restoue

|Southwest = Alcay-Alcabehety-Sunharette

|West = Camou-Cihigue

|Northwest = Aussurucq

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[http://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/accueil?c=-0.8747,43.12&z=7.92265E-5&l=GEOGRAPHICALGRIDSYSTEMS.MAPS.3D$GEOPORTAIL:OGC:WMTS@aggregate(1)&l=ADMINISTRATIVEUNITS.BOUNDARIES$GEOPORTAIL:OGC:WMTS(1)&permalink=yes Géoportail], IGN {{in lang|fr}}

The commune name in Basque is Aloze-Ziboze-Onizegaine.Brigitte Jobbé-Duval, Dictionary of Placenames - Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 2009, Archives and Culture, {{ISBN|978-2-35077-151-9}} {{in lang|fr}}

The Basque form of Sibas can be Ziboz(e) or Ziborotz(e).

Jean-Baptiste Orpustan suggested that Abense came from a Roman phonetic change to the Basque Oniz > onise > oénse > auénse > abense. The base of the name is the oronym ona, also present in Bayonne and Oneix. The modern Basque form (Onizegañia, Onizegañe or Omiz(e)) are equivalent to "Upper" (gain(e)a > gañia).

Brigitte Jobbé-Duval suggests that Oniz is the name of a noble Basque family.

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

Sources:

• Orpustan: Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ie-LeqGXat8C&q=evense New Basque Toponymy]Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ie-LeqGXat8C&q=evense New Basque Toponymy], Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2006, p. 189-191, {{ISBN|2 86781 396 4}} {{in lang|fr}}
• Raymond: [https://books.google.com/books?id=2TCHmbiipFIC Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees], 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. {{in lang|fr}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=2TCHmbiipFIC Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees], Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 {{in lang|fr}}
• Cassini: [http://rumsey.geogarage.com/maps/cassinige.html?lat=43.12&lon=-0.8747&zoom=13 1750 Cassini Map] {{in lang|fr}}
• EHESS: {{Cassini-Ehess|50|Abense}}

Origins:

• Luntz:Contracts retained by Luntz, Notary of Béarn, in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques {{in lang|fr}}
• Soule: Customs of SouleCustoms of Soule in 1520, printed at Pau in 1760
• Duchesne: Duchesne collection volume CXIVDuchesne Collection, volumes 99 to 114, containing the papers of Oihenart, former Imperial Librarian - Bibliothèque nationale de France

File:Alos (Alos-Sibas-Abense, Pyr-Atl, Fr) Mairie.JPG|Town Hall at Alos

File:Alos (Alos-Sibas-Abense, Pyr-Atl, Fr) vieilles steles discoïdales.JPG|Old Hilarri at Alos

File:Sibas (Alos-Sibas-Abense, Pyr-Atl, Fr) L'église dans l'ombre des arbres.JPG|The Church of Sibas

File:Sibas (Alos-Sibas-Abense, Pyr-Atl, Fr) vieille stèle basque.JPG|Old Hilarri at Sibas

File:Abense-de-Haut (Alos-Sibas-Abense) L'église trinitaire.JPG|Trinity Bell Tower at the Church of Abense

File:Absense-de-Haut (Alos-Sibas-Absense, Pyr-Atl, Fr) vieux stèle basque.JPG|Hilarri at Abense

Sibas merged with Alos on 23 October 1843 to form Alos-Sibas. On 16 April 1859, following the annexation of part of the territory of Abense-de-Haut, the commune took the name of Alos-Sibas-Abense.

On the same day the commune of Abense-de-Haut disappeared, its territory being divided between Alos-Sibas and Tardets.

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|text=The motto of the commune is atzotik biharrera (from yesterday to tomorrow)

Blazon:

Or, a bridge of three arches argent masoned in sable over a party per fess barry wavy of 4 azure and argent and surmounted by a comma sun gules of eight arms all over a terrace in base of 3 pales; the first Or with a tower in sable turreted windows and door open; the second gules a plume argent in an inkpot sable; the third azure 3 commas argent inverted in chief.

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Lists of Successive Mayors of Alos-Sibas-Abense[http://www.francegenweb.org/mairesgenweb/resultcommune.php?id=22128 List of Mayors of France] {{in lang|fr}}

;Alos

;Sibas

;Abense-de-Haut

;Alos-Sibas

;Abense-de-Haut

;Alos-Sibas-Abense

The town is part of six intercommunal structures:[https://archive.today/20121218080824/http://comdpt.pyrenees-atlantiques.pref.gouv.fr/ComDpt64/ComGrp.php?siren=216400176&licom=Alos-Sibas-Abense Intercommunality of Pyrénées-Atlantiques], Cellule informatique préfecture 64, consulted on 9 November 2011

• the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque
• the union to support Basque culture
• SIVOM of the canton of Tardets
• the municipal association for the gaves of Oloron and Mauleon
• SIVU for Tourism in Haute-Soule and Barétous
• the AEP Union for Soule country

The population data given in the table and graph below for 1836 and earlier refer to the former commune of Alos, and for 1841-1851 to the former commune of Alos-Sibas. The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aloztar-Ziboztar-Oniztar.[https://www.habitants.fr/pyrenees-atlantiques-64 Pyrénées-Atlantiques], habitants.fr

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| source = EHESS{{Cassini-Ehess|529|Alos-Sibas-Abense}} and INSEE[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-64017#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE

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|1793 |188

|1800 |212

|1806 |218

|1821 |213

|1831 |223

|1836 |223

|1841 |360

|1846 |354

|1851 |316

|1856 |646

|1861 |565

|1866 |505

|1872 |527

|1876 |523

|1881 |538

|1886 |530

|1891 |536

|1896 |511

|1901 |484

|1906 |463

|1911 |453

|1921 |437

|1926 |421

|1931 |415

|1936 |414

|1946 |401

|1954 |352

|1962 |368

|1968 |343

|1975 |361

|1982 |316

|1990 |309

|1999 |319

|2007 |269

|2012 |303

|2017 |319

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Economic activity is mainly focused on agriculture (livestock and pasture). The town is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée zone of Ossau-iraty.

• Etchandia House, formerly owned by the Etchandy family.
• La Salle d'Abense

The Church of Abense contains a Processional Cross (15th century){{Palissy Icon}} which is registered as an historical object.{{Base Palissy|PM64000028|Processional Cross}}

The common practices Controlled burns[http://jarailet.club.fr/html/ecobuage.htm Alos-Sibas-Abense] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013062600/http://jarailet.club.fr/html/ecobuage.htm |date=2008-10-13 }} for prevention of forest fires.

The town has an early childhood hub (Child care centre and a creche) and an Ikastola.

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

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• [http://www.alos-sibas-abense.com/ Alos-Sibas-Abense official website] {{in lang|fr}}
• [http://autourdalos.fr/ Alos-Sibas-Abense personal website] {{in lang|fr}}
• [http://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/accueil?c=-0.8747,43.12&z=7.92265E-5&l=GEOGRAPHICALGRIDSYSTEMS.MAPS.3D$GEOPORTAIL:OGC:WMTS@aggregate(1)&l=ADMINISTRATIVEUNITS.BOUNDARIES$GEOPORTAIL:OGC:WMTS(1)&permalink=yes Alos-Sibas-Abense on Géoportail], National Geographic Institute (IGN) website {{in lang|fr}}
• [http://rumsey.geogarage.com/maps/cassinige.html?lat=43.12&lon=-0.8747&zoom=13 Alos, Sibas, and Abens on the 1750 Cassini Map]

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