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Meaning & History
Taken from the name of a town, Ainhize-Monjolose, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France. It is located in the former province of Lower Navarre, not far from the "Croix de Galcetaburu", and used to be the town where meetings were held in Lower Navarre. The toponym was first recorded as Anfiz in 1135; according to Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, its origin and meaning is lost to time. The medieval village of Monjolose was established in 1240 as subject to the King of Navarre. Formerly subject to Ainhize, they were reunited on 16 August 1841.