Baliros

Baliros
The Luz at Baliros
Coat of arms
Baliros
Location within Aquitaine region  Baliros
Coordinates: 43°13′43″N 0°18′18″W / 43.2286°N 0.305°WCoordinates: 43°13′43″N 0°18′18″W / 43.2286°N 0.305°W
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Pau
Canton	Nay-Ouest
Intercommunality	Pays de Nay
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Jean-Claude Hourcq
Area^1	3.64 km^2 (1.41 sq mi)
Population (2010)^2	367
• Density	100/km^2 (260/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	64091 / 64510
Elevation	200–382 m (656–1,253 ft) (avg. 215 m or 705 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Baliros is a French commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Aquitaine region of south-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Balirosiens or Balirosiennes.^[1]

Geography

Baliros is located some 12 km south-east of Pau just west of Bordes. Access to the commune is by the D37 road from Narcastet in the north which passes through the centre of the commune and the village before continuing south to Pardies-Piétat. The village is served by bus routes 809, 810, and 811 of the Interurban Network of Pyrenees-Atlantiques which connect Pau with Arthez-d'Asson. The commune is forested west of the village with the eastern side farmland.^[2]

The Gave de Pau flows north along the eastern border of the commune although it is not the communal border. The Luz river flows from the south-west of the commune north through the village to join the Gave de Pau at the northern border of the commune. The Gest joins the Luz in the south of the commune. The Escourre flows north from the south-eastern corner of the commune to join the Luz north of the village.

Places and hamlets

• L'Arroundade de la Plaine
• Cazaous
• Claverie
• Colomby (château)
• L'Engoust
• Hillou (part)
• Hourcade
• Monregard

Neighbouring communes and villages

Toponymy

Michel Grosclaude proposed the Latin etymology of the surname Valerus with the Aquitaine suffix -ossum giving "Domain of Valerus".

The following table details the origins of the commune name.

Name	Spelling	Date	Source	Page	Origin	Description
Baliros	Baliros	1385	Grosclaude		Census	Village
	Balliros	1515	Raymond	20	Assat
	Baliroos	1538	Raymond	20	Reformation
	Baliros	1750	Cassini

Sources:

• Grosclaude: Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, 2006 (French)^[3]
• Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (French)^[4]
• Cassini: Cassini Map from 1750^[5]

Origins:

• Census: Census of Béarn^[6]
• Assat: Titles of Assat^[7]
• Reformation: Reformation of Béarn^[8]

History

Paul Raymond noted on page 20 of his 1863 dictionary that in 1385 Baliros had 11 fires and depended on the bailiwick of Pau.

Heraldry

The official status of the blazon remains to be determined. Blazon: Quarterly: at 1 Azure, a paschal lamb rear regardant bearing a standard charged with a cross couped all of Argent; at 2 Argent, three sticks of Sable in pale; at 3 Or, three escallops of Gules set 2 and 1; at 4 Argent, three bends Azure.

Administration

Baliros Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors^[9]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1995	2008	Jean-Claude Duprat
2008	2014	Jacques Robert
2014	2020	Jean-Claude Hourcq

(Not all data is known)

Inter-communality

The commune is part of six inter-communal structures:

• the Community of communes of Pays de Nay;
• the SIVU of RPI Baliros - Pardies-Piétat - Saint-Abit (headquarters in Baliros);
• the drinking water and sanitation association of Pays de Nay (SEAPAN);
• the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
• the inter-communal association for defence against floods of the Gave de Pau;
• the inter-communal association for defence against floods of the Luz;

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 367 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger communes that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
120	268	235	290	316	332	339	326	314

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
318	297	308	320	329	304	300	282	286

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
274	271	228	202	197	206	195	164	176

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
194	268	342	335	365	377	378	367	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Baliros Post Office

Economy

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

Sites and monuments

The Parish Church of Saint Peter (1658) is registered as an historical monument.^[10]

Facilities

The Baliros Community Hall.

Baliros is a member of the Inter-communal Educational Grouping (RPI) of Baliros - Pardies-Piétat - Saint-Abit which runs the Baliros and Pardies-Piétat primary schools.

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

Notes

1. At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

1. Inhabitants of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
2. Google Maps
3. Michel Grosclaude, Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, 416 pages, ISBN 2-35068-005-3(French)
4. Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (French)
5. Cassini Map 1750 – Baliros
6. Manuscript from the 14th century - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
7. Titles of Assat in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
8. Manuscript from the 16th to 18th centuries - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
9. List of Mayors of France (French)
10. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA64000599 Parish Church of Saint Peter (French)

External links

• Baliros on Lion1906
• Baliros on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Baliros on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE (French)