NAVARRE AND the FIRST SETTLEMENTS of PYRENEES: end independent kingdom (1512)

NAVARRE AND THE FIRST SETTLEMENTS OF THE PYRENEES: The End of the Independent Kingdom (1512) Author: Ignacio Silvosa Terreros This book offers a broad, rigorous, and accessible journey through the history of Navarre and the peoples who inhabited the Western Pyrenees from prehistory to the disappearance of the independent kingdom in 1512. Throughout its pages, readers will discover how the first human communities developed in a landscape shaped by mountains, climate, and geography, from Paleolithic hunter-gatherers to the first Neolithic farming villages. The book explores the great historical transformations: the arrival of Indo-European peoples, Celtic cultures, the Vascones and Aquitanians, Romanization, Late Antiquity, the Visigothic era, Muslim influence along the Ebro frontier, and the emergence of the Kingdom of Pamplona. It then examines the consolidation of the Kingdom of Navarre as a medieval political entity, its role in European affairs, its social structures, institutional evolution, and the conflicts that shaped its destiny until the conquest of 1512. Beyond political and military events, this work pays special attention to everyday life, historical identity, collective memory, and the interpretation of the past through the centuries. Written in a clear and engaging style, based on archaeological discoveries, historical sources, and modern scholarship, this book brings the history of Navarre closer to both specialists and general readers interested in the origins of the Pyrenean peoples. An essential work for understanding how history, memory, and territory intertwine in one of the most distinctive regions of Western Europe.

Pagina's: 392, Paperback, Independently published