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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 ...
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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 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 ...
Comte de Lautréamont (1846-1870) - poet; Titouan Lamazou (born 1955 in Casablanca) - navigator, artist and writer; Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) - poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry."
Sportspeople from Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques (63 P) Pages in category "People from Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total.
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