It is said he ruled " from Belorado to Pallars and from Bayonne to Monreal.

Bayonne endured numerous sieges from Plantagenet times until the end of the First French Empire in 1814.

Jewish refugees from the Spanish Inquisition from 1560 brought new trades, most notably chocolate-making, which is still important in Bayonne.

Bull-fighting is part of the five-day Fêtes de Bayonne which starts on the first Wednesday of August and attracts people from across the Basque Country and beyond.

Bayonne is known for its fine chocolates, produced in the town for 500 years, and Bayonne ham, a cured ham seasoned with peppers from nearby Espelette.

In the late 20th century, the processing of by-products from the Lacq natural gas field near Pau became important, although Bayonne has had higher-than-average unemployment.

The city is near the intersection between the A63 autoroute between Bordeaux and the Spanish border and the A64 from Bayonne to Toulouse.

Bayonne harbour is a stop over for yachts and boats crossing the Gulf of Biscay on their way from the UK to the Iberian Peninsula, the Atlantic or the Mediterranean.

In Wyndham Lewis's The Wild Body ( 1927 ) the protagonist, Ker-Orr, in the first story, ' A Soldier of Humour ', takes the train from Paris and stays in the town of Bayonne before passing through into Spain.

Bayonne Ham or Bayonne is an air dried salted ham that takes its name from the ancient port city of Bayonne in the far South West of France ( Le Pays Basque or Basque country ).

After he had taken deacon's orders, however, he concentrated on science, and, through the patronage of Jacques Cassini, obtained employment, first in surveying the coast from Nantes to Bayonne, then, in 1739, in remeasuring the French arc of the meridian, for which he is honored with a pyramid at Juvisy-sur-Orge.

The language variant used was different from the ones used in Navarre, i. e. a Béarnese Gascon, with Gascon being in use far longer than in Navarre and Aragon till the 19th century, thanks mainly to the close ties held by San Sebastian and Pasajes with Bayonne.

With the addition of Eleanor's lands, he now controls territory stretching unbroken from Cherbourg to Bayonne.

In August 1364 his men began a fight back in Normandy while a small Navarrese army under Rodrigo de Uriz sailed from Bayonne to Cherbourg.

A TGV rail line on the line to Paris and from Bayonne to Toulouse, and the A64 autoroute to the east.

The firearms manufacturing company Henry Repeating Arms moved from Brooklyn to Bayonne in 2009.

* Hudson River Waterfront Walkway is part of a walkway that is intended to run the more than 18 miles from the Bayonne Bridge to the George Washington Bridge.

The promenade along the river bank is part of the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway, a state-mandated master plan to connect the municipalities from the Bayonne Bridge to George Washington Bridge and provide contiguous unhindered access to the water's edge and to create an urban linear park offering expansive views of the Hudson with the spectacular backdrop of the New York skyline.

The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway is a state-mandated master plan to connect the municipalities from the Bayonne Bridge to the George Washington Bridge creating an-long urban linear park and provide contiguous unhindered access to the water's edge.

Spanish Basques also sought refuge in Bayonne in the 20th century during Francisco Franco's repression, with Petit Bayonne still a centre of Basque nationalism.

There are also important festivals of Jazz ( July ), Bayonne ham ( Holy Week ), theatre and pelota ( the Basque sport ).

Bayonne is now the centre of certain craft industries that were once widespread, including the manufacture of makilas, traditional Basque walking-sticks.

* Bayonne, with both Basque and Gascon identity

Trilingual sign in Bayonne: French, Basque, and Gascon Occitan (" Mayretat ", " Sindicat d ' initiatibe ")

Born in Ezpeleta near Bayonne, in the north of Basque Country, in Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France, he entered the Congregation of the Mission in 1848, having already displayed great fondness for the natural sciences.

He was born in Bayonne, France, where his father, Dominique Cabarrus Fourcade was a merchant and shipbuilder, linked to a saga of Basque sea-captains, whalers and adventurers, who settled in Capbreton ( a town near Bayonne ), coming from the Navarre region of Spain.

* Basque Derby – Bayonne vs Biarritz

The main town of Labourd is Bayonne, although the capital up to the French Revolution was Ustaritz, 13 km away, where local Basque leaders assembled.

The first mention of Basque whaling was made in 1059, when it was said to have been practiced at the Basque town of Bayonne.

At its final stretch, i. e. on its way through Bayonne and a short extent upstream, the river draws the borderline between the Northern Basque Country and Landes regions.

It also attracts a large number of visitors from Basque Spain or Guipuzcoa along with many from nearby Bayonne and the rest of southwestern France.

In the 2009 – 10 Top 14 season, Biarritz took two league matches to the Anoeta — their home leg of the Northern Basque derby against Bayonne, and a home match against fellow traditional power Toulouse.

Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port is the terminus on the railway line from Bayonne through the French Basque Country, along the valley of the river Nive, with several services each day.

In 1857 Nepveu negotiated a contract to build a railway bridge over the river Garonne at Bordeaux, connecting the Paris-Bordeaux line to the lines running to Sète and Bayonne, which involved the construction of a iron girder bridge supported by six pairs of masonry piers on the river bed.

The river Nive rises in Lower Navarre and flows through the province and on to Bayonne, where it meets the Adour.

* Gascony was a very loosely administrated region, with officials only stationed in Entre-deux-mers, Bayonne, Dax, as well as on the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela and on river Garonne up to Agen.

The distillery is situated in Bayonne, by the river Adour, and is open to visitors.

There was only one main street in Bayonne, and it ran along the St. Charles river.

A part of the pact (" Accord of Bayonne ") was to elevate the young couple to a title, Prince and Princess of Asturias, which was modelled after that of Prince of Wales in English kingdom.

Two years later, he got Jansen a position teaching at the episcopal ( or " bishop's ") college in du Vergier ’ s hometown of Bayonne.

One of the earliest and most determined of the partisans of a constitutional monarchy under the duke of Orleans, he was deputy for Bayonne in July 1830, when his house in Paris became the headquarters of the revolutionary party.

Sousa Mendes continued on to Hendaye to assist there, thus narrowly missing two cablegrams from Lisbon sent June 22 to Bordeaux and Bayonne ordering him to stop even as France's armistice with Germany became official.

He became bishop of Bayonne in 1741, then archbishop of Vienne in 1745, and in 1746, at the age of forty-three, archbishop of Paris.

In 1977, it was renamed after a prominent history teacher who became school principal and Assistant Superintendent of Schools and authored a history of the city of Bayonne.

" During this period, Saint-Jean-De-Luz became the second largest town in the Labourd region with a population or around 12, 000, just behind Bayonne.

After these events, Sanz Briz continued his diplomatic career: he was posted to San Francisco and Washington DC, Lima, Bern, Bayonne, Guatemala, The Hague, Brussels and China ( 1973, where he became the first Spanish ambassador ).