See also: Ance (homonymy)

Ance is a common French, located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques and the area Aquitaine.

Its name in Béarnais is Ansa

Its inhabitants is called Ançais.

Geography

The common one belongs to the Vallée of Barétous.

Hydrography

The commune is crossed by the following affluents of the Gave d' Oloron:

• the Green and its affluents
• Aurone and its affluent
• Treilt
• Bélandre
• the Laboratory
• Lousère
• the Mielle

Localities and hamlets

Communes bordering

• Esquiule and Féas in north
• Agnos, Asasp-Arros and Oloron-Holy-Marie in the east
• Aramits in the south.

Toponymy

The toponym Ance appears in the forms Anssa (XIIIe century, for of Barétous), Ansse (1385, censier of Béarn), Anse (1477, titles of the valley of Winder), Ansa (1538, reformation of Béarn), Saint-Estienne-with Ance (1674, insinuations of the diocese of Oloron).
The toponym is of origin Basque, that is to say of Antso (= height) or of the patronym Anso .

History

In 1385, Ance counted 23 fires and depended on the Bailliage of Oloron.

Administration

Intercommunality

Ance belongs to 5 inter-commune structures:

• the Community of communes of the Valley of Barétous
• SIVU in charge of tourism into High-Drunk and Barétous
• trade union of regrouping of Ance and Féas
• departmental trade union of electrification
• intercommunity association of studies and installations of the catchment area of the Green and of its affluents.

Demography

Economy

The economy of the commune is primarily directed towards agriculture and the breeding. The manufacture of farm cheeses (AOC Ossau-Iraty) is also one of the resources of the commune.

Culture and inheritance

Religious heritage

Parish church Saint-Etienne, end XVIIIe and XIXe centuries.

Personalities related to the commune

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