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The city takes its name from the stockade (pau in Béarnese) which surrounded the original castle. Pau became the capital of Béarn in 1464 and the seat of the Kings of Navarre in 1512 after the capture of Pamplona by the Kingdom of Castile. Pau became a leading political and intellectual centre under the reign of Henry d'Albret. With the end ...
In 1800 the arrondissements of Pau, Bayonne, Mauléon, Oloron and Orthez were established. The arrondissements of Mauléon and Orthez were disbanded in 1926. [2] The borders of the arrondissements of Pyrénées-Atlantiques were modified in January 2017: [3] one commune from the arrondissement of Bayonne to the arrondissement of Oloron-Sainte-Marie
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The canton of Pau-3 is an administrative division of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, southwestern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Pau. [1] It consists of the following communes: [1] Bizanos; Mazères-Lezons; Pau (partly)
Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a border department, has cultivated a number of economic and cultural links with Spain. Two urban concentrations exist in the east and west of the department: Pau, which has 145,000 inhabitants and 344,000 workers in the local area; and Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz which has 166,400 inhabitants and 235,000 workers in the ...
The arrondissement of Pau (French: Arrondissement de Pau, Occitan: Distrito de Pau Basque: Paueko barrutia) is an arrondissement of France in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It has 268 communes. [2] Its population is 311,949 (2021), and its area is 2,548.9 km 2 (984.1 sq mi). [3]
The following is a list of the 545 communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [1] Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées; Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque; Communauté de communes Adour Madiran (partly) Communauté de communes du ...
The following is a list of the 27 cantons of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015: [1] Anglet Artix et Pays de Soubestre