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- Despite its small size in the later Middle Ages, Navarre played a significant role in international politics. Not only were its rulers closely involved in French affairs, the kingdom also controlled the main pass into Spain in the western Pyrenees and was a buffer state between Gascony, Castile, and Aragon.
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The Kingdom of Navarre, former independent kingdom of Spain which occupied the area of the present province of Navarra. The kingdom was home to sizable Moorish and Jewish populations, and despite its small size in the later Middle Ages, it played a significant role in international politics.
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The ancient Kingdom of Navarre covered, at its greatest extent, approximately the modern-day Spanish autonomous communities of Navarre, Basque Country and La Rioja and the French territory of Lower Navarre in Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Apr 9, 2019 · Navarre was wrested from the Cordoba Caliphate in 824 by Inigo Arista, founder of the House of Iniguez. Navarre was, initially, named "The Kingdom of Pamplona", and in fact didn't come to be known as Navarre until the mid-1100s.
Navarre is a Frankish march county in the face of the Islamic control of most of the rest of Iberia. The inhabitants of Pamplona, which is part of Umayyad Al-Andalus, expel their Arab governor around 740.
Navarre , Spanish Navarra, Ancient kingdom, northern Spain, bordered by France, Aragon, Castile, and the Basque Country. It encompassed the modern autonomous community of Navarra and part of the modern French région of Aquitaine. It was conquered by the Romans, then Charlemagne.
Oct 9, 2024 · Navarre was one of medieval Spain's powerhouse kingdoms. Its location, straddling the Pyrenees and containing the only pass through those mountains, gave it influence over affairs in both France and the Iberian Peninsula.
Henry IV was the king of Navarre (as Henry III, 1572–89) and the first Bourbon king of France (1589–1610), who, at the end of the Wars of Religion, abjured Protestantism and converted to Roman Catholicism (1593) in order to win Paris and reunify France. With the aid of such ministers as the Duke de.
