Argelès-Bagnères

Argelès-Bagnères
region	Occitania
Department	Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement	Bagneres-de-Bigorre
Canton	La Vallée de l'Arros et des Baïses
Community association	Communes de la Haute-Bigorre
Coordinates	43 ° 5 ' N , 0 ° 12' E Coordinates: 43 ° 5 ' N , 0 ° 12' E
height	391-567 m
surface	2.62 km 2
Residents	110 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	42 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	65200
INSEE code	65024
	; Mayor's office ( Mairie ) of Argelès-Bagnères

Argelès-Bagnères is a French commune with 110 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region (before 2016: Midi-Pyrénées ). The municipality belongs to the arrondissement of Bagnères-de-Bigorre and the canton of La Vallée de l'Arros et des Baïses (until 2015: canton of Bagnères-de-Bigorre ).

The inhabitants are called Argelésois and Argelésoises .

geography

Argelès-Bagnères is located about six kilometers northeast of Bagnères-de-Bigorre in the historical county of Bigorre .

Argelès-Bagnères is surrounded by the five neighboring municipalities:

	Cieutat
Merilheu		Castillon
Bagneres-de-Bigorre	Uzer

Argelès-Bagnères lies in the catchment area of the Adour River . The Luz , a tributary of the Arros , crosses the territory of the municipality, together with its tributary, the Ruisseau de Lies, and its tributary, the Ruisseau l'Estampe.

Toponymy

The Occitan name of the municipality is Argelèr. It comes from the Latin argilla with the suffix -arium and from the gascognic argelèrs ( German clay ).

Toponyms and mentions of Argelès-Bagnères were:

Argiles (around 1200-1230, Copial Book of the County of Bigorre),
Bernardus d'Argeles (1251, Testament Pétronille),
Argelers (1285, and 1313, census of the nobility in Bigorre or tax list Debita regi Navarre),
Arnaldus de Argileriis (1300, elevation in Bigorre),
De Argeleriis (1313, 1342 and 1369, Debita regi Navarre, parish registers of Tarbes or according to Larcher, Castelbajac and others),
Argelers (1429, County Bigorre census ),
Argelès-près-Bagnères (1768, according to Duco),
Argellez en Bigorre (1750, 1751, 1753, and 1754–1760, church records),
Argelles (1750, map by Cassini ),
Argellez , (1790, Department 1),
Argelez , (1793, Notice Communale ),
Argettez (1801, Bulletin des lois ),
Argelès-Bagnères (2003).

According to the decree of the French Prime Minister of August 1, 2003, the previous name of the municipality, Argelès, has been replaced by the current name Argelès-Bagnères.

Population development

After records began, the population rose to a peak of around 310 by the second half of the 19th century. In the following period, the size of the community decreased to 95 inhabitants with short recovery phases until the 1970s, before a relatively short growth phase until the turn of the millennium set in, after which a phase of stagnation began that continues to this day.