Kingdom of Navarre | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

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Kingdom of Navarre


00:02:21 1 Etymology
00:03:16 2 Early historic background
00:10:08 3 Nascent state and kingdom
00:10:17 3.1 Establishment by Iñigo Arista
00:13:42 3.2 Jiménez rule
00:21:39 3.3 Ecclesiastical affairs
00:22:53 4 Dismemberment
00:23:01 4.1 Division of Sancho's domains
00:24:38 4.2 Partition and union with Aragon
00:28:56 4.3 Restoration and the loss of western Navarre
00:34:47 5 Navarre in the Late Middle Ages
00:34:57 5.1 Rule by Champagne and France
00:37:39 5.2 Navarre under the Foix and Albret dynasties
00:44:05 5.3 Spanish conquest
00:47:33 5.4 Independent Navarre north of the Pyrenees
00:50:02 6 The crown and the kingdom: A constitutional foundation
00:52:06 7 Later history and the end of the ifueros/i
00:54:58 8 Province of Spain
00:56:23 9 Territory today
00:57:04 10 Historical symbols
00:57:13 11 See also



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The Kingdom of Navarre (; Basque: Nafarroako Erresuma, Spanish: Reino de Navarra, French: Royaume de Navarre, Latin: Regnum Navarrae), originally the Kingdom of Pamplona (Basque: Iruñeko Erresuma), was a Basque-based kingdom that occupied lands on either side of the western Pyrenees, alongside the Atlantic Ocean between present-day Spain and France.
The medieval state took form around the city of Pamplona during the first centuries of the Iberian Reconquista.  The kingdom has its origins in the conflict in the buffer region between the Frankish king Charlemagne and the Umayyad Emirate that controlled most of the Iberian Peninsula.  The city of Pamplona (Latin: Pompaelo; Basque: Iruñea), had been the main city of the indigenous Vasconic population and was located amid a predominantly Basque-speaking area.  In an event traditionally dated to 824, Íñigo Arista was elected or declared ruler of the area around Pamplona in opposition to Frankish expansion into the region, originally as vassal to the Córdoba Emirate.  This polity evolved into the Kingdom of Pamplona. In the first quarter of the 10th century the Kingdom was able to briefly break its vassalage under Córdoba and expand militarily, but again found itself dominated by Córdoba until the early 11th century.  A series of partitions and dynastic changes led to a diminution of its territory and to periods of rule by the kings of Aragon (1054–1134) and France (1285–1328).
In the 15th century, another dynastic dispute over control by the king of Aragon led to internal divisions and the eventual conquest of the southern part of the kingdom by the Crown of Castile in 1512 (permanently in 1524).  It would become part of the unified Kingdom of Spain. The remaining northern part of the kingdom was again joined with France by personal union in 1589 when King Henry III of Navarre inherited the French throne as Henry IV of France, and in 1620 it was merged into the Kingdom of France. The monarchs of this unified state took the title "King of France and Navarre" until its fall in the French Revolution, and again during the Bourbon Restoration from 1814 until 1830 (with a short break in 1815).
Today, significant parts of the ancient Kingdom of Navarre comprise the autonomous communities of Navarre, Basque Country and La Rioja.