Sarp (Hautes-Pyrénées)
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Hautes-Pyrénées | |
| Arrondissement | Bagneres-de-Bigorre | |
| Canton | La Vallée de la Barousse | |
| Community association | Neste Barousse | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 1 ′ N , 0 ° 35 ′ E | |
| height | 467-742 m | |
| surface | 1.82 km 2 | |
| Residents | 108 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 59 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 65370 | |
| INSEE code | 65407 | |
Sarp is a French commune with 108 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region . It belongs to the canton of La Vallée de la Barousse and the Neste Barousse municipal association .
geography
Sarp is located at an average altitude of 478 meters in the Barousse , a scenic region that roughly corresponds to the valley of the River Ourse , in the northern Pyrenees , 95 kilometers southwest of Toulouse , 16 kilometers southwest of Saint-Gaudens and about seven kilometers northeast of Canton capital Mauléon-Barousse , between the neighboring communities of Aveux in the southwest and Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges in the north.
history
The place name is derived from a word in the Gascon language that means serpe ( sickle ). The inhabitants are also called Baoudanayrés in Gascon or Baudonaires in French , which means “ tripe eater ”. The patron saint of the local parish is Saint Germier de Toulouse (7th century). The Seigneurs von Binos and Sarp built a mansion on site in the 18th century .
In 1793, Sarp received the status of a municipality in the course of the French Revolution (1789–1799) and in 1801 the right to local self-government as Sarpt .
| year | 1793 | 1851 | 1891 | 1926 | 1968 | 1982 | 1999 | 2007 |
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| Residents | 185 | 280 | 180 | 102 | 74 | 76 | 104 | 107 |
The municipality had the most inhabitants in 1851 (280) and the least in 1968 (74).
economy
The main occupations of the Baudonaires are the timber industry , arable farming and the breeding of domestic cattle and sheep .
Web links
- Sarp on cartesfrance.fr in French
Individual evidence
- ^ Sarp on annuaire-mairie.fr (French). Retrieved March 22, 2010.
- ^ Louis Henri Monia: Monuments des anciens idiomes gaulois: textes-linguistique . A. Durand, 1861, p. 268 ( in Google Books [accessed March 23, 2010]). (French)
- ↑ Tout sur les villages de Barousse (French) Retrieved October 6, 2012.
- ↑ a b http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?id=24903&mode=detail&style=fiche Sarp on quid.fr (French) Retrieved on March 23, 2010, no longer available since March 25, 2010.
- ^ Sarp on Cassini.ehess.fr (French). Retrieved March 23, 2010.