Aitzol Altuna: "Navarrese History of Gipuzkoa"

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Basque

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Often, today's "Gipuzkoa" is mentioned as if it had always been called that. However, the current reality is the result of a long and complex historical journey. On that path, numerous have been the agents who participated in it and are mentioned to us. But in the story we are told, the role of local Basque autonomous political institutions is often belittled, and that is precisely what this lecture wishes to highlight. After the Roman Empire, the lands that would become Ipuscoa and Gipuzkoa were within the Duchy of Vasconia. As a consequence of the two battles of Orreaga (778, 824), the Kingdom of Pamplona was born, in the face of the Frankish invasions that Vasconia had suffered. As a region of the Kingdom of Pamplona, "Ipuscoa" is first mentioned in the year 1025, in a writing from the time of Alfonso III the Great. Although the Castilians conquered it in 1200, King Charles II of Navarre liberated it again between 1368 and 1373. To reflect this historical relationship, until recently the image of Eneko Aritza, the first Basque king of Navarre, has been preserved in his heraldic shields.

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