During the Germanic invasions of 409 and later as a result of Rechiar ´ s ravaging, Pamplona went through much disruption and destruction, starting a cycle of general decline along with other towns across the Basque territory but managing to keep some sort of urban life.

During the following years, the Basques south of the Pyrenees don ´ t seem to have shown much resistance to the Moorish thrust, and Pamplona may even have flourished as a launching point and centre of assembly for their expeditions to Gascony.

Local history says that the Cross was first implanted in Canaman soil around 1580 ’ s when some Nueva Caceres-based missionaries apparently on their way back from gospel work in either the visita of Quipayo ( now Calabanga ) or of San Gabriel ( now a barangay of Pamplona ), got their bearings confused and, thinking they were turning eastward from the Bicol River to its Naga tributary, instead entered the Canaman creek which at the time was still a deep and fast flowing stream.

The Battle of the Pyrenees was a large-scale offensive launched on 25 July 1813 by Marshal Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult from the Pyrénées region on Emperor Napoleon ’ s order, in the hope of relieving French garrisons under siege at Pamplona and San Sebastián.

Marshal Soult ’ s plan was to relieve the siege at Pamplona first, then swing the army westward to relieve the siege at San Sebastián.

Despite the legend citing Saint Fermin as the first bishop of Pamplona and his baptising of 40, 000 pagan inhabitants in just three days, first reliable accounts of a bishop date from 589, when bishop Liliolus attended the Third Council of Toledo.

Failure to suppress the rebellion started a widespread revolt, led by Gartzia Semeno ( who according to late traditions was a near-kinsman of Eneko Aritza, was the first monarch of Pamplona, and was newly appointed duke Lupus Centullo ( c.

In 905, Leonese chronicles define for the first time the Kingdom of Pamplona as including all the western Basque provinces, as well as the Rioja region.

He has finished outright first, or tied for first, in dozens of other international tournaments including Geneva ( 1979 ), Belfort, World Under 16 ( 1979 ), the BBC Master Game ( 1981 ), Amsterdam OHRA ( 1982 ), Baku ( 1983 ), Esbjerg ( 1984 ), Wijk aan Zee ( 1986, 1987 ), Reykjavík ( 1987 ), Amsterdam VSB ( 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993 ), Hastings ( 1987 / 88, 1988 / 89 ), Pärnu ( 1996 ), Groningen ( 1996 ), Tallinn / Pärnu ( 1998 ), Dhaka United Insurance ( 1999 ), Shymkent ( 1999 ), Pamplona ( 1999 / 2000 ), Tan Chin Nam Cup, Beijing ( 2000 ), Sigeman and Co. Malmö ( 2002, 2009 ), Gibraltar ( 2003, 2004, 2012 ), Budapest Hunguest Hotels ( 2003 ), Samba Cup, Skanderborg ( 2003 ), Taiyuan ( 2004 ), the Politiken Cup ( 2006 ), Bazna ( 2008 ), the Staunton Memorial ( 2009 ) Thailand Open ( 2011, 2012 ) and Luanda ( 2011 ).

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.

His father last appears in 1000, while Sancho is first found as king in 1004, inheriting the kingdom of Pamplona ( later known as Navarre ).

Fermin was ordained a priest in Toulouse, according to the local legend, and returned to Pamplona as its first bishop.

In the year 905 a Leonese chronicle mentions the extension of the Kingdom of Pamplona for the first time, being clear that it extended then to Nájera and Arba ( arguably Araba ), what for some implies that it included the Western Basque Country as well:

The Historia General de Navarra by Jaime del Burgo says that on the occasion of the donation of the villa of Alastue by the king of Pamplona to the monastery of San Juan de la Peña in 987, he styled himself " King of Navarre ", the first time that title had been used.

In many places he appears as the first King of Navarre and in others the third ; however, he was at least the seventh king of Pamplona.

His best results include first in the 1998 Asian Championship, second in the World Junior Chess Championship in 1999, first at Essen 2001, first at Pamplona 2002 ( winning a blitz playoff against Victor Bologan after both had finished the main tournament on 3. 5 / 6 ), first with 8 / 9 at the Vlissingen Open 2003, joint first with Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu with 6 / 9 at Pune 2005, a bronze-medal winning 9. 5 / 12 performance on board one for his country at the 2000 Chess Olympiad and runner-up in the FIDE Chess World Cup in 2002 ( losing to Viswanathan Anand in the final ).

The first of these, Guntoslo, is apparently the man of this name who would later be count of Aragon, but only as a fully subservient vassal of his brother-in-law the king of Pamplona.

Still, his first explicit mention is in the 840s, when he launched a series of revolts, in collaboration with his maternal half-brother, the Pamplona chieftain Íñigo Arista.

He first bought off the rebels of Toledo with governorships, and this encouraged Amrus to offer his loyalty, for which he was rewarded with Huesca where he captured Mutarrif and his family, including wife Belasquita, the daughter of García Íñiguez of Pamplona.

Son of King García Ramírez and Marguerite de l ' Aigle, he was the first to use the title " King of Navarre " as the sole designation of his kingdom, dropping Pamplona out of titular use.

The territory of the parish rises gradually from the coast, first as a relatively gentle slope, but at an increasingly rugged grade as one approaches the heights of the Serra de Santa Bárbara, where five streams have their sources: the Gatos, the São Roque, the Lajinhas, the Lapa, and the Pamplona.

Íñigo Íñiguez Arista ( Basque: Eneko Enekones Aritza / Haritza / Aiza,, Wannaqo ibn Wannaqo, c. 790 – 851 or 852 ) is considered the first King of Pamplona.

His paternal grandmother was also a Christian, the royal infanta Onneca Fortúnez, daughter of the captive king Fortún Garcés of Pamplona.

Circa 581, the Visigoth king Liuvigild overcame the Basques, seized Pamplona and founded in Vasconia the town of Victoriacum.

At the time of the Muslim invasion in 711, the Visigothic king Roderic was fighting the Basques in Pamplona and had to turn his attention to the new enemy coming from the south.

Moreover, he was crowned as king of Pamplona in 824 when himself and the Banu Qasi gained momentum in the wake of their victorious second battle of Roncevaux.

In about 869, he formed an alliance with the Kingdom of Pamplona, and solidified this link by marrying Jimena, who is thought to have been daughter of king García Íñiguez, or less likely, a member of the Jiménez dynasty, and also married his sister Leodegundia to a prince of Pamplona.

With the support of king Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona, they drove Alfonso Fróilaz to the eastern marches of Asturias, and divided the kingdom among themselves with Alfonso Ordóñez receiving the crown of León and his elder brother Sancho being acclaimed king in Galicia.

A document issued by his brother Ramiro on 22 August 1036 at San Juan de la Peña was drawn while " emperor Bermudo reigning in León and count Ferdinand in Castile, king García in Pamplona, king Ramiro in Aragon, and king Gonzalo in Ribagorza.

Pedro de Ursua, a Navarrese faithful to the Spanish king, who was also the founder of Pamplona in eastern Colombia, said that he could persuade the soldiers to be told of Aguirre's revolt, if they spoke in Euskera.

The town was conquered by the Christian king Sancho I of Pamplona in 908-909.

Out of this pattern of resistance against both Frankish and Cordoban interests arose the Basque chieftain Íñigo Arista, who tradition has elected as king of Pamplona in 824, giving rise to a dynasty of kings in Pamplona that would last for four score years.

In the Era 944 905 arose in Pamplona a king named Sancio Garseanis.

Garcia Sanchez's son, Sancho II Garces, nicknamed Abarca, ruled as king of Pamplona from 970 to 994.

To Sancho the Great, also, the See of Pamplona owed its re-establishment, the king having, for this purpose, convoked a synod at Leyra in 1022 and one at Pamplona in 1023.

The reign of Sancho the Wise's successor, the last king of the male line of Sancho the Great and of kings of Pamplona, king Sancho VII the Strong ( Sancho el Fuerte ) ( 1194 – 1234 ), was more troubled.

In 927, Abd-ar-Rahman also launched a campaign against the rebel Banu Qasi clan, but was forced to break it off by the intervention of King Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona.

He was made Bishop of Pamplona at the age of 15.

In January 2000, Polgár had, for her, a disappointing result in a tournament in Pamplona, Spain, which was won by Nigel Short.

" He was known to proudly display a scar he received after being gored at the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain.

They established themselves in ethnic boroughs where Occitan was used for everyday life, e. g. Pamplona, Sangüesa, Estella, etc.

Charlemagne established across them the vassal regions of Pamplona, Aragon and Catalonia ( which was itself formed from a number of small counties, Pallars, Gerona, and Urgell being the most prominent ) respectively.

It was not until Queen Ximena in the 9th century that Pamplona was officially recognised as an independent kingdom by the Pope.

The Kingdom of Pamplona was one of the important Christian powers of Iberia during the Reconquista.

The kingdom was formed when local leader Íñigo Arista led a revolt against the regional Frankish authority and was elected or declared King in Pamplona ( traditionally in 824 ), establishing a kingdom inextricably linked at this stage to their kinsmen the muwallad Banu Qasi of Tudela.

The Kingdom of Pamplona ( after 12th century, Navarre ), was a Christian kingdom extending after the 13th century ( and briefly in the early 11th century ) at either side of the Pyrenees alongside the Atlantic Ocean.

Although he received support from the Church — he became Archdeacon of Pamplona in 1143 — Robert's preference was for translating scientific rather than theological works.

According to his biography, he achieved everything he wanted and after staying overnight in Pamplona, on his way back his army was attacked in Roncesvaux in 812, but didn't suffer defeat thanks to the precautions he had taken.

He was put on half pay by the new authorities and ordered to live under police observation at Pamplona.

The whole force under his orders when he escaped from Pamplona on the night of 29 October 1833, and took the command next day in the Arakil Valley, was a few hundred ill-armed and dispirited guerrilleros.

Two generations later, in 824, the chieftain Iñigo Arista was chosen as the King of Pamplona, laying a foundation for the later Kingdom of Navarre.

In the years 466 to 472, Pamplona was conquered by the Visigoth count Gauteric, but they seemed to abandon the restless position soon, struggling as the Visigoth Kingdom was to survive and rearrange its lands after their defeats in Gaul.

During the beginning of the 6th century, Pamplona probably stuck to an unstable self-rule, but in 541 Pamplona along with other northern Iberian cities was raided by the Franks.