Low-Navarre

See also: Navarre

The Low-Navarre is:

  • under the Old Mode, an area of the kingdom of Navarre,
  • for the Basque, one of the provinces of the Basque Country, in Iparralde.

These two areas are not entirely recovered, and are located in the French Département Yrénées-Atlantiques.

Geography

The Lowone is limited to the east by the Soule in the south and the west by the Spain (Communauté Forale de Navarre (Valleys of Aezcoa, Roncevaux and the Baztan) and in the North-West by the province of the Labourd. It consists of 5 valleys in the the Pyrenees Basques:

  • in the west, the valley of Bidarray
  • in the south, the valley of Baigorry, which is prolonged by the valley of Aldudes
  • in the south, the high valley of the Nive form the Pays of Cize or Garazi dominated by Saint-Jean-Foot-of-Port
  • in the east is the Pays of Mixes or Amikuze around Saint-Palate
  • between the two, is the Vallée of Arberoue, formed by the valley of the Joyeuse (or Aran).

History

The Lowone is not called like since 1512.
Previously it formed the " provinces of in addition to-monts" ( ultrapuertos in Spanish) of the Kingdom of Navarre, whose principal grounds were in the south of the Pyrenees and whose Pampelune was the principal city. The châtellenie of Saint-Jean-Foot-of-Port was the center.

It is the only province of the Royaume of Navarre which the Spain of Ferdinand II of Aragon definitively did not annex in 1515.
Although the troops of Charles Quint took possession of the whole of the grounds held by the King de Navarre, a strategic fold took place for not too much exposer.
The Lowone, joined together with the close Béarn, remained an independent kingdom which, four generations later, knew as king, under the name of Henri III of Navarre, the future king de France Henri IV.
The province was annexed by the France in 1620 but the double crown was preserved until in 1790.

Principal cities

Languages

The use of the Basque is always largely widespread. In 2001, the proportion bilingual bascophones/French-speaking was of 61% for the unit Low-Navarre/Soule.

Historically, the dialectal form is the low-Navarrese.

Blasonnement

Of mouths to the chains of gold posed in orle, cross and saltire, charged in heart with an emerald to the naturalness .

References

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