Aincille

Aincille Aintzilla
Commune
A House in Aincille
Coat of arms
Location of Aincille
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Coordinates: 43°08′44″N 1°11′38″W / 43.1455°N 1.1938°W / 43.1455; -1.1938
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Bayonne
Canton	Montagne Basque
Intercommunality	Pays Basque
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Gilbert Oçafrain[1]
Area 1	6.26 km2 (2.42 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	114
• Density	18/km2 (47/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	64011 /64220
Elevation	198–755 m (650–2,477 ft) (avg. 240 m or 790 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Aincille (French pronunciation: [ɛ̃sil];^[3] Basque: Aintzilla)^[4] is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France.

The town is part of Cize Country in the former Basque province of Lower Navarre.

It is located some 50 km south-east of Bayonne and 5 km southeast of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port.

The commune can be accessed by the D401 road from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port in the northwest to the village. From the village the D118 road goes north to join the D18 highway.^[5]

Located in the drainage basin of the Adour, the northeastern border of the commune is marked by the Laurhibar river, which flows north to join the Nive north of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port. A stream rises near the village and flows to the Laurhibar in the north-east. The Urtchipea rises in the south of the commune and flows northwest gathering many tributaries and joins the Nive de Beherobie at Saint-Michel. The Sassitako erreka rises southwest of the village and flows northwest joining the Laurhibar east of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port.

The commune name in basque is Aintzila meaning "hill of mud",^[6] Aintzila^[7] or Aintzil-Harrieta.^[8]

Jean-Baptiste Orpustan wrote the name of the commune in the form Aïncille. He also indicated that in Basque the inhabitants are referred to as Aintzildar.^[7]

The following table details the origins of the commune name.

Sources:

• Mérimée: Presentation of the Commune of Aincille on the Ministry of Culture website^[6]
• Orpustan: Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, New Basque Toponymy^[7]
• Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (in French)^[9]
• Cassini: Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Aincille, EHESS (in French).

Origins:

• Intendance: Intendance of Pau^[10]

Part of Aincille territory next to the communes of Ahaxe-Alciette-Bascassan, Bustince-Iriberry, Çaro, Lecumberry, Mendive, Saint-Jean-le-Vieux, and Saint-Michel, was taken on 11 June 1842 to form of the commune of Estérençuby.^[11]

Blazon: Quarterly, first Azure a bridge of Or masoned in sable debruised over a wave of argent in base, in chief 3 stars the same arranged in fesse; second of Or with an eagle displayed in sable; three vert a cow of Or collared and belled in azure posed in base surmounted by a sheep of argent horned in Or; fourth azure with a church in Or in profile roofed the same extended at dexter with a porch abased and surmounted at dexter by a belltower and steeple the same supporting a cross in sable, windows and doors the same..

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List of Successive Mayors of Aincille^[12]

The commune belongs to six intercommunal structures:

• the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque
• the AEP association of Ainhice
• the energy association for Pyrenees-Atlantiques
• the intercommunal association for the development and management of the slaughterhouse at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port
• the joint association for the watershed of the Nive
• the association to support Basque culture.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aintzildars.^[14]

The town is part of the production area of Irouléguy AOC and the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) zone of Ossau-iraty.

Economic activity is mainly agricultural.

Aincille had long received saline (saline of Ugarré) since the 17th century and had the distinction of being a corporation with ownership of twenty-nine old houses of the town^[15] and was reunited with the royal domain in 1683.

According to the Map of the Seven Basque Provinces published in 1863 by Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte, the dialect of Basque spoken in Aincille is Eastern Low Navarrese.

The commune has several sites that are registered as historical monuments:

• Houses and Farms (18th-19th century)^[16]
• The Idiondoa Farmhouse (1617)^[17]
• The Ahadoberria Farmhouse (1768)^[18]

The commune has several religious sites that are registered as historical monuments:

• The Croix de Carrefour (Crossroads Cross) Wayside Cross^[19]
• A Cemetery Cross (17th century)^[20]
• The Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist (Middle Ages)^[21] The church contains two items that are registered as historical objects:
  • A Processional Cross (18th century)^[22]
  • A Statue: Virgin and child (13th century)^[23]

Church Picture Gallery

• 
  Aincille The Main Altar
• 
  The Processional Cross

Stained Glass

• 
  Saint Basile
• 
  Saint Joachin
• 
  Saint Pierre
• 
  Saint Anne

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

• Aincille on the 1750 Cassini Map

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