![]() ![]() The city of Pamplona ( Latin: Pompaelo Basque: Iruña), had been the main city of the indigenous Vasconic population and was located in a predominantly Basque-speaking area. The kingdom had its origins in the conflict in the buffer region between the Carolingian Empire and the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba that controlled most of the Iberian Peninsula. The medieval state took form around the city of Pamplona during the first centuries of the Iberian Reconquista. ![]() The Kingdom of Navarre ( / n ə ˈ v ɑːr/ Basque: Nafarroako Erresuma, Spanish: Reino de Navarra, French: Royaume de Navarre, Latin: Regnum Navarrae), originally the Kingdom of Pamplona (until the last half of the 12th century, after its capital and chief city), was a former kingdom that occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees, with its northernmost areas originally reaching the Atlantic Ocean ( Bay of Biscay), between present-day Spain and France. ![]()
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