| Commune of Dax | | Location | | Longitude | 1° 03' 01" W | | Latitude | 43° 42' 28" N | | Administration | | Country | France | | Région | Aquitaine | | Département | Landes
(sous-préfecture) | | Arrondissement | Dax | | Canton | Dax (chief town) | | Intercommunality | Communauté de communes du Grand Dax | | Mayor | Jacques Forté
(2001-2008) | | Statistics | | Altitude | 2 m–46 m
(avg. 9 m) | | Land area¹ | 20 km² | Population²
(1999) | 19,515 | | - Density (1999) | 991/km² | | Miscellaneous | | INSEE/Postal code | 40088/ 40100 | | ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | | ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). |
 | Dax is a commune of Aquitaine in southwestern France, sous-préfecture of the Landes département. Longitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ...
Latitude, usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ...
This is an alphabetical list of countries of the world, including both internationally recognized and generally unrecognized independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ...
France is divided into 26 régions: 21 of these are in the continental part of metropolitan France, one is Corse on the island of Corsica (although strictly speaking Corse is in fact a territorial collectivity, not a région, but is referred to as a région in common...
Location Administration Capital Bordeaux Regional President Alain Rousset (PS) (since 1998) Départements Dordogne Gironde Landes Lot-et-Garonne Pyrénées-Atlantiques Arrondissements 18 Cantons 235 Communes 2,296 Statistics Land area1 41,309 km² Population (Ranked 6th) - January 1, 2005 est. ...
The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ...
Landes is a département in southern France. ...
Subprefecture is an administrative level that is below prefecture or province. ...
The 100 French départements are divided into 342 arrondissements. ...
The arrondissement of Dax is an arrondissement of France, located in the Landes département, in the Aquitaine région. ...
The canton is an administrative division of France. ...
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ...
A mayor (from the Latin mÄior, meaning larger,greater) is in modern times the title of the highest ranking municipal officer, who discharges certain judicial and administrative functions, in many systems an elected politician, who serves as chief executive and/or ceremonial official of many types of municipalities. ...
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INSEE is the French abbreviation for the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (French: Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques). ...
Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. ...
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The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ...
Location Administration Capital Bordeaux Regional President Alain Rousset (PS) (since 1998) Départements Dordogne Gironde Landes Lot-et-Garonne Pyrénées-Atlantiques Arrondissements 18 Cantons 235 Communes 2,296 Statistics Land area1 41,309 km² Population (Ranked 6th) - January 1, 2005 est. ...
Subprefecture is an administrative level that is below prefecture or province. ...
Landes is a département in southern France. ...
The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to English counties. ...
It is particularly famous as a spa, specialising in mud treatment for rheumatism and similar ailments. A destination spa is a business establishment which people visit for personal health, fitness, personal care treatments such as massages, facials, in a resort setting. ...
It is also a market town, former bishopric and busy local centre, especially for the Chalosse area.
History It was first established by the Romans, and its reputation is supposed to date from a visit by Julia, the daughter of the first Emperor Octavian Augustus.
Ecclesiastical history It is not certain that the patron of the diocese, the martyr St. Vincent, was a bishop. His cult existed in the time of Charlemagne, as is proved by a note of the Wolfenbuttel manuscript of the "Hieronymian Martyrology". The oldest account of his martyrdom is in a breviary of Dax, dating from the second half of the thirteenth century, but the author knows nothing of the martyr's period. Excavations near Dax proved the existence of a Merovingian seminary on the site of a church dedicated to St. Vincent of Lérins by Bishop Gratianus. Gratianus, present at the Council of Agde (506), is the first historically known bishop. Among the other bishops of the see were St. Revellatus (early sixth century), St. Macarius (c. 1060), Cardinal Pierre Itier (1361), Cardinal Pierre de Foix (1455), founder of the University of Avignon and the Collège de Foix at Toulouse. The synodal constitutions of the ancient Diocese of Dax, published by the Abbe Degert, are of great historical interest for the study of the ancient constitutions and customs of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. M. Degert in the course of this publication has succeeded in rectifying certain errors in the episcopal lists of the "Gallia christiana". The ancient French diocese was suppressed by the Napoleonic Concordat of 1801, its territory divided between the neighbouring dioceses of Aire and Bayonne. A breviary (from Latin brevis, short or concise) is a liturgical book containing the public or canonical prayers, hymns, the Psalms, readings, and notations for everyday use, especially for priests, in the Divine Office (i. ...
Saint Vincent of Lerins (in Latin, Vincentius) was a Gallic author of early Christian writings. ...
In the history of Roman Catholicism in France, the Council of Agde was held 10 September 506 at Agatha or Agde in Languedoc, under the presidency of Caesarius of Arles. ...
City flag City coat of arms Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur Département Vaucluse (préfecture) Arrondissement Avignon Canton Chief town of 4 cantons Intercommunality Communauté dagglomération du Grand Avignon Mayor Marie-Josée Roig...
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The Concordat of 1801 reaffirmed the Catholic Church as the major religion of France and restored some of its civil status. ...
Aire can refer to: Aire - the River Aire in Yorkshire, England. ...
Bayonne (French: Bayonne, pronounced ; Gascon Occitan and Basque: Baiona) is a city and commune of southwest France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département, of which it is a sous-préfecture. ...
About 1588 St. Vincent de Paul made his first studies with the Cordeliers of Dax, but good secondary education at Dax dates only from the establishment of the Barnabites in 1640. Saint Vincent de Paul (April 24, 1580 – September 27, 1660) was born at Pouy, Landes, Gascony, France to a peasant family. ...
The Cordeliers, also known as the Club of the Cordeliers and formally as the Society of the Friends of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen comprised a populist society during the French Revolution. ...
The Barnabites, or Clerics Regular of Saint Paul (Latin: Clericorum Regularium S. Pauli, abbr. ...
See also US Dax is a French rugby union club currently competing in the second level of the French league system. ...
A scrum Rugby union (often referred to as rugby, union or football) is one of the two codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league. ...
Sources and references - This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia, so may be out of date, or reflect the point of view of the Catholic Church as of 1913. It should be edited to reflect broader and more recent perspectives. [1]
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The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language encyclopedia published in 1913 by The Encyclopedia Press. ...
External links - Dax Cathedral
- Dax Cathedral
- Virtual tours in Dax (Arenes, cathédrale, Place de la Fontaine Chaude...) by BLUEphotographie
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