- Esquiule
French commune
nomcommune=Esquiule
région=Aquitaine
département=Pyrénées-Atlantiques
arrondissement=Oloron-Sainte-Marie
canton=Oloron-Sainte-Marie-Ouest
insee=64217
cp=64400
maire=Laurent Chabalgoity
mandat=2001 -2008
intercomm=Communauté de communes du Piémont Oloronais
longitude=-0.706944444444
latitude=43.1947222222
alt moy=198 m
alt mini=190 m
alt maxi=661 m
hectares=2,858
km²=28.58
sans=500
date-sans=1999
dens=17.49
date-dens=1999Esquiule ( _eu. Eskiula) is a small village and commune in the
Pyrénées-Atlantiques "département" of southwesternFrance .It is located in the former province of
Béarn . It stands out as an outpost of the Basque area ofSoule , the village being historically Basque speaking. It has often played host to the carnivalesque performances known as "maskaradak" and its inhabitants arranged and performed one traditional theatre piece of Soule ("pastorala") under the title "Madalena de Jaureguiberry" in 2000.External links
* [http://www.euskomedia.org/euskomedia/SAunamendi?idi=en&op=7&voz=ESKIULA ESKIULA in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa)] (in Spanish)
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