Talk:Pyrénées-Atlantiques

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Where is it? Population, anything else of interest? Vicki Rosenzweig

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Population: document in French: 1999 census, including population of regions, departements and cities of more 100,000 inhabitants. Caution: "Aires urbaines de plus de 50,000 habitants" doesn't give the population of the cities, but the population of the "urban area", the city and its surroundings. 1999 French census

For more information: the "Conseil General" of the departements (their governing body) have harmonized the URLs of their websites. For instance, the URL of the Puy-de-Dome Conseil General is: http://www.cg63.fr (note that 63 is the departement number). - User:Olivier

Many images are available here for the villages and town of this department, 61% of articles are illustrated today in french Wikipedia, approximately 35% in January, it's 16% moreover !France64160 (talk) 14:20, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted edits in history

Hi there, I see you keep insisting in deleting the information I added, I understand you have good grounds to believe that is not so, but since you specify nothing I don´t know. Iñaki LL (talk) 14:19, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The informations you've added are unsourced and misleading. The creation of the Pyrénées atlantiques didn't result in the "fusion of the Basques and the Bearneses", they had no mutual hostility, Lower Navarre and Bearn were united before the creation of the departement... I'm afraid nothing can be saved from your edit... Blaue Max (talk) 19:02, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Um, I'm afraid you are still treading water. Nothing is sourced in this article, but you chose to remove the information I added, I expect you to have reasons for it. Evidently they were not at war, but it's no secret that at that time, and later, despite their expectable trade and neighbourhood relations, the Basques and the Bearnese didn´t get along. The Labourd, and Soule lost all the specific institutions and laws they still retained, and Basse-Navarre lost all the different local prerogatives it had under the Parliament of Navarre in Pau. An outcry of the Basque representatives in the assemblies (Ustaritz) ensued on the wake of the French Revolution, and Dominique Joseph Garat designed a halfhearted specific institution for the Basques. Irrespective of their local institutions, Basques identified and understood with each other, and the foreigners, including the Bearnese, are/were called Kaskoinak, literally "Gascons" but meaning 'aliens', frequently pejorative, if you happen to know a bit of Basque from that area. Evidently, institutions and former boundaries were removed, and new administrative ones imposed. I add this and this for your information, check also the Nafarroa Beherea and Lapurdi entries, it will be enlightening for you, err, if you happen to read Spanish. Iñaki LL (talk) 20:46, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]