 Ur, Pyrénées-Orientales

Ur (), is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.The name of the village is attested in the form "Hur" as early as 839 AD, and is of pre-Indo-European origin, coming from the "Ur-Or-Ar" root - quite common in the Pyrenees - which designates a place where there is a spring or a river; the pre-Celtic root "*Ur-" still means "water" in Basque.