Dours
Dours is a common French located in the department of the Hautes-Pyrénées and the area the Midday-Pyrenees. Its inhabitants are named Doursois.
Geography
Village located on the slopes of Pouyastruc, with 10kms in the North-East of the town of Tarbes, prefecture of the Hautes-Pyrénées. Its territory with the shape of a long rectangle extending from the south in the north limited by the territories of Rabastens and Lescury to north, by those of Sabalos and Orleix at midday, by those of Louit, Soréac and Castéra with raising, from which it is separated by Loulès, to setting by those of Chis, Aurensan and Tostat of which it is separate partly by the Alaric and partly by the Aule.
History
Dours is a village located in the country of Bigorre of which it still bore the name at the 17th century: Dours-in-Bigorre .
See also: HTTP: /www.dours.com/Dours: Monograph of a village of the Hautes-Pyrénées of 1789 to 1918
Administration
Source: MairesGenWeb - Census of the Mayors of France through the History
Demography
The population decrease in second half of the 19th century because of the agricultural Crise which involves a Rural migration. Since the years 1990, one attends a phenomenon known as of Rurbanisation where the Citadin S of the agglomeration tarbaise come to be established in the countryside, but keep an urban lifestyle, a work downtown. This phenomenon produces a “Mitage” landscape by a strewn frame, or as well as possible divided into Lotissement S.
Places and monuments
Church - War memorial the
Personalities related to the commune