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

Bayonne (; Gascon and ) is a city and commune in south-western France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, of which it is a sub-prefecture.

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

Bayonne is now part of ' BAB ' ( Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ), a metropolitan area of almost 200, 000 people.

Grand Bayonne is the commercial and civic hub, with small pedestrianised streets packed with shops, plus the cathedral and Hôtel de Ville.

At the back of Petit Bayonne is the Château Neuf, among the ramparts.

Bayonne has the longest tradition of bull-fighting in France and there is a ring beyond the walls of Grand 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.

It is said by some that Bayonne is the birthplace of mayonnaise, supposedly a corruption of Bayonnaise, the French adjective describing the city's people and produce.

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

The Gare de Bayonne is on the high-speed TGV line between Paris and Hendaye for connections with Spain.

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

The city bus system is STAB ( Transports Urbains de l ' agglomération de Bayonne ).

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.

The Mayor of Bayonne ( 1995 – 2007 ) is Jean Grenet of the centre-right UMP.

In Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt ( 2002 ), Bayonne is the first city recolonized by the Muslims after the total depopulation of Europe by the Black Death.

The seventh track of Joe Bonamassa's album Dust Bowl is entitled The Last Matador of Bayonne.

In Earnest J. Gaines ' novel, " A Lesson Before Dying " Bayonne, Louisiana is the name of a Cajun town central to the book.

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 ).

The Pont Saint-Esprit connects Petit Bayonne with the Quartier Saint-Esprit across the Adour, where the massive Citadelle and the railway station are located.

The Biarritz – Anglet – Bayonne Airport is located about four kilometres from the city.

Dr. Walter F. Robinson School is a public coeducational primary school located in the U. S. city of Bayonne, New Jersey, run by the Bayonne Board of Education.

The Nestor Motion Picture Company was a motion picture studio / production company located in Bayonne, New Jersey, and Hollywood, California, which was owned and operated by David Horsley and his brother, William Horsley.

As for the M / S Batory, on June 21 at 7: 00 am it was located at the mouth of the Adour and then began an approach to enter the port of Bayonne without anchor.

The last exit on New York State Route 440 before the Bayonne Bridge is in Elm Park, which also contains one of two Catholic cemeteries on Staten Island named St. Mary's Cemetery ; the other cemetery, located in Grasmere, is much larger than the Elm Park cemetery.

The company was founded in Bayonne, New Jersey, and although no manufacturing facilities remain in Bayonne today, some company facilities are still located there.

The theatre was built on land purchased from the Pennsylvania Railroad and located on a main commercial avenue that ran the full length of Hudson County, New Jersey from Bayonne, New Jersey at one end through to Union City, New Jersey.

When " English run " Bayonne surrendered to the French in 1451, no one knowns if these " undivided status " villages within the English-Navarrese frontier, were taken by the French, too.

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* Bergen Point and Constable Hook are two peninsulas in Bayonne, which itself lies on peninsula surrounded by Upper New York Bay, Newark Bay, and the Kill van Kull, formerly known as Bergen Neck

Other facilities managed by the Port Authority include the George Washington Bridge, the Lincoln Tunnel, and the Holland Tunnel, which all connect Manhattan and Northern New Jersey ; the Goethals Bridge, the Bayonne Bridge, and the Outerbridge Crossing which connect Staten Island and New Jersey.

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The first exit, 14A, is for New Jersey Route 440 in Bayonne.

The November 16, 2010, episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart parodied former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's reality television series, Sarah Palin's Alaska, in the form of a trailer for a fictional reality show called Jason Jones ' Bayonne, New Jersey, whose portrayal of the city was characterized by prostitution, drugs, crime, pollution and a stereotypical Italian-American population.

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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.

To the east the city is across the Newark Bay from Bayonne in Hudson County and the Arthur Kill from Staten Island, New York.

The borders of Elizabeth, Bayonne, and Staten Island meet at one point on Shooters Island, of which of the island is owned by Elizabeth, though the island is managed by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

They have judged and marched in the USA in Drum Corps International and Drum Corps Associates events – with the Bayonne Bridgemen ( New Jersey ), Spirit of Atlanta ( Georgia ), Crossmen ( Pennsylvania ), New York Skyliners, and the Lehigh Valley Chieftains.

In the early 1940s he worked in a foundry in Bayonne, New Jersey where he was an organizer and shop steward for the United Electrical Workers as well as a recruiter for the SWP.

Charles " Chuck " Wepner ( born February 26, 1939 ) is a former heavyweight boxer from Bayonne, New Jersey.

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