The language has official status in those territories that are within the Basque Autonomous Community, where it is spoken and promoted heavily, but only partially in Navarre.

There is a line along the Nive valley through Labourd and Lower Navarre to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, used principally by tourists and hikers.

In Spain dolmens can be found in Galicia ( such as Axeitos, pictured below ), Basque Country and Navarre ( like the Sorgin Etxea ) and the basque name for theme is Trikuharri or Jentiletxe, Catalonia ( like Cova d ' en Daina or Creu d ' en Cobertella ), Andalusia ( like the Cueva de Menga ) and Extremadura ( like " Dolmen de Lácara ").

Their daughters Cristina and María both married into the high nobility ; Cristina to Ramiro, Lord of Monzón, grandson of García Sánchez III of Navarre via an illegitimate son ; María, first ( it is said ) to a prince of Aragon ( presumably the son of Peter I ) and second to Ramón Berenguer III, count of Barcelona.

As the foremost saint from Navarre and one of the main Jesuit saints, he is much venerated in Spain and the Hispanic countries where Francisco Javier or Javier are common male given names.

* 1191 – Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre who is crowned Queen consort of England the same day.

He is a character in Norah Lofts ' novel The Lute Player ( which focuses on his relationship with Berengaria of Navarre ).

On the other hand, two communities ( the Basque Country and Navarre ) are " communities of chartered regime ", that is, they have full fiscal autonomy, whereas the rest are " communities of common regime ", with limited fiscal powers ( the majority of their taxes are administered centrally and redistributed among them all for fiscal equalization ).

* 1054: the Battle of Atapuerca is fought between García V of Navarre and Ferdinand I of León

The Carlist force is ten times this number and includes most of the troops from Navarre, Vizcaya and Alava, although a considerable force is left in Guipúzcoa.

* June 25 – June 27 – Third Carlist War: Battle of Monte Muro: Carlist forces entrenched around Abárzuza, on the approach to Estella in Navarre, repel an attack by Isabelino / Liberal ( supporters of Queen Isabella II ) troops led by General Manuel Gutiérrez de la Concha, Marqués del Duero, who is killed on the third day of fighting.

* October 26 – Rouen is captured by Royalist forces under Antoine de Bourbon, King of Navarre, who is mortally wounded.

Within Spain, the community is flanked by Catalonia on the east, Valencia and Castile – La Mancha to the south, and Castile and León, La Rioja, and Navarre to the west.

* July 10 – Battle of Mello: The Jacquerie rebellion is defeated by a coalition of nobles, led by Charles II of Navarre.

* Castillan defeat at the battle of Fraga against Muslim troops: Alfonso I of Aragon is killed, and succeeded by Ramiro II in Aragon and Garcia VI in Navarre.

It is located in the former province of Lower Navarre.

Castile ( ) is a Spanish historical region of vague borders, which is the result of a gradual merge of the Kingdom of Castile with its neighbours to become the Crown of Castile and later the Kingdom of Spain when united with the Crown of Aragon and the Kingdom of Navarre.

Navarre, a historical kingdom in its own right, has a culture that is mainly Basque in the north and closer to that of Old Castile in the south, especially in La Rioja and Aragon, in the south.

In theory, Navarre is the only first-level political division that is not an " autonomous community " but a " chartered community ", but, in practice, except for the fiscal autonomy it enjoys along with the Basque Country, it is administratively constituted as any other autonomous community and is represented in the Spanish Parliament like the rest.

He was in the city during its siege by Henry of Navarre.

That kingdom reached its zenith during the reign of Sancho III of Navarre and covered the area of the present-day Navarre, Basque country, and La Rioja, together with parts of modern Cantabria, Castile and León, and Aragon.

After Sancho III died, the Kingdom of Navarre was divided between his sons and never fully recovered its importance.

The small portion of Navarre lying north of the Pyrenees — Lower Navarre — later came under French rule when its Huguenot sovereign became King Henry IV of France ; with the declaration of the French Republic and execution of Louis XVI, the last King of France and Navarre, the kingdom was merged into a unitary French state.

Despite its relatively small size, Navarre features stark contrasts in geography, from the Pyrenees mountain range that dominates the territory to the plains of the Ebro river valley in the south.

Navarre leads Europe in its use of renewable energy technology and was planning to reach 100 % renewable electricity generation by 2010.

After the annexation of Navarre to Spain ( 1512 ), Pamplona remained as capital of the autonomous kingdom of Navarre, which preserved its own institutions and laws.

Freed from its military function, Pamplona could lead the process of industrialization and modernization in which Navarre was involved during the 20th century, especially during its second half.

The throne of Navarre went its separate way, to Joan of France, daughter of Louis X, who became Joan II of Navarre.

The party won 150, 000 votes in the Basque Country ( 15 %) and 22, 000 additional votes in Navarre ( 9 %) in its first Spanish general election in March 1979.

This was part of what would prove to be a larger division: Navarre and the Basque country went to eldest half-brother García, the county of Castile, already held by Ferdinand, reverted to its feudal fealty to the Kingdom of León, while the counties of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza fell to Gonzalo and Ramiro received lands in Aragon to hold under García.

According to tradition, he was baptised by Saturninus ( in Navarre also known as Saint Cernin ) at the spot now known as the " Small Well of Saint Cernin " Fermin was ordained a priest in Toulouse and returned to Pamplona as its first bishop.

The areas over which Carlism could establish some sort on territorial authority during the first war ( Navarre, Rioja, rural Basque Country, inner Catalonia and northern Valencia region ) would remain the main holdings of Carlism for all its history, although the movement was actively supported everywhere else in Spain.

Among Franco's greatest area of support during the civil war was Navarre, also a Basque speaking region in its north half.

Navarre remained a separated region from the Basque Country and Franco decided to preserve its also centuries ' old fiscal privileges and autonomy, the so-called Fueros of Navarre.

Louis ' son Pepin, now King of Aquitaine, stamped out the Vasconic revolt in Gascony and then pursued the chieftains who had taken refuge in southern Vasconia, i. e. Pamplona and Navarre, no longer controlled by the Franks.

They do distinguish Navarre and the Vasconic main town in 806 though (" In Hispania, vero Navarrensis et Pampelonensis "), while the Chronicle of Fontenelle quotes " Induonis et Mitionis, ducum Navarrorum ".

Percentage of people fluent in Basque language in Navarre ( 2001 ).

Although the constitution forbids the federation or union of autonomous communities, an addendum or " transitional provision " to the constitution makes an exclusion whereby Navarre could join the Basque Country if the people chose to do so.

In 2006 11. 1 % of people in Navarre were Basque speakers, 7. 6 % were passive speakers and 81. 3 % were Spanish-speaking monolinguals, an increase from 9. 5 % Basque speakers in 1991.

Principally, by Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 – 1375 ), author of The Decameron ( 1353 )— one hundred novelle told by ten people, seven women and three men, fleeing the Black Death by escaping from Florence to the Fiesole hills, in 1348 ; and by the French Queen, Marguerite de Navarre ( 1492 – 1549 ), Marguerite de Valois, et.

The people living here were Anthony Navarre, Sonaneque, his wife, James Doheny, and Lewis Bellaire, and their families.

The colors adopted for folk costumes varied by region, red in Gipuzkoa, white in Álava, blue in Biscay, but eventually the Basques settled on blue berets and the people of Navarre adopted red berets while the black beret became the common headgear of workers in France and Spain.

The Vascones ( Latin, singular ) were an ancient people who, at the arrival of the Romans, inhabited the region of present-day Navarre, Lower La Rioja and north-western Aragon.

On Negu Gorriak ’ s album Esan Ozenki, the title of the track “ Napartheid ” ( 1993 ) is a pun cross-referencing the discrimination of the Basque culture and people in Navarre to the system of legalized racism in South Africa.

The people of the Basque Provinces and Navarre sided with Carlos because of traditionalism and historical respect for the Catholic Church ; ideologically, Carlos was close to them.

The style " King of the French ", used for the first time instead of " King of France ( and Navarre )", was an innovation intended to inaugurate a " popular monarchy " which linked the monarch's title to the people, not to the territory of France.

In 1610, the Spanish Inquisition tribunal of Logroño initiated a large witch-hunt in Zugarramurdi and villages around Navarre that resulted in 300 people being accused of practising witchcraft.

Documents from Estella, dated September 1369, some 80 years later, prove the people from Ainhoa paid taxes to both, the King of Navarre and the " English " Seneschal of the Landes territory in return for their fiscal and personal privileges.

Corella is a town and municipality with 7, 621 people ( 2005 ), located in the province of Navarre, northern Spain, and close to Tudela.

She would walk unescorted in the streets of Navarre, allowing any one to approach her and would listen at first hand to the sorrows of the people.

Jules Michelet ( 1798 – 1874 ), the most celebrated historian of his time, wrote of her: " Let us always remember this tender Queen of Navarre, in whose arms our people, fleeing from prison or the pyre, found safety, honor, and friendship.