Aulos is a former commune in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region of south-western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Aulos-Sinsat.[2]

Geography

Aulos is located some 12 km south-east of Tarascon-sur-Ariège and 22 km north-west of Ax-les-Thermes. Access to the commune is by Route nationale 20 from Sinsat in the north-west passing through the north of the commune and continuing south-east to Luzenac. Access to the village is by the D522 road which branches off the N20 in the commune and goes south-east through the village continuing to Les Cabannes. A railway line passes through the commune with the nearest station at Les Cabannes. Most of the commune is heavily forested with a strip of farmland along the N20 and the D522.[3]

The river Ariège forms the whole eastern border of the commune with no tributaries passing through the commune.[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages

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Administration

List of Successive Mayors[4]

From To Name
2001 2019 Jean-Yves Cencigh

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aulosois or Aulosoises in French.[5]

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1800 77—    
1806 113+6.60%
1821 101−0.75%
1831 100−0.10%
1836 113+2.47%
1841 118+0.87%
1846 122+0.67%
1851 127+0.81%
1856 119−1.29%
1861 110−1.56%
1866 104−1.12%
1872 95−1.50%
1876 92−0.80%
1881 88−0.89%
1886 98+2.18%
1891 111+2.52%
1896 104−1.29%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901 105+0.19%
1906 102−0.58%
1911 91−2.26%
1921 89−0.22%
1926 79−2.36%
1931 65−3.83%
1936 76+3.18%
1946 73−0.40%
1954 80+1.15%
1962 71−1.48%
1968 91+4.22%
1975 81−1.65%
1982 60−4.20%
1990 38−5.55%
1999 60+5.21%
2007 56−0.86%
2012 56+0.00%
Source: EHESS[6] and INSEE[7]
Aulos Town Hall
Aulos Lavoir (Public Laundry)
An Oratory in Aulos

See also

References

  1. ^ "Populations légales 2021" [Legal populations 2021] (PDF) (in French). INSEE. December 2023.
  2. ^ "Arrêté du 27 septembre 2018 portant création de la commune nouvelle d'Aulos-Sinsat" (PDF). ariege.gouv.fr. 27 September 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  3. ^ a b c Google Maps
  4. ^ List of Mayors of France (in French)
  5. ^ Le nom des habitants du 09 - Ariège, habitants.fr
  6. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Aulos, EHESS (in French).
  7. ^ Populations légales 2012, INSEE
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aulos,_Ari%C3%A8ge
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