The Vascones were a pre-Roman tribe who, on the arrival of the Romans in the 1st century, inhabited a territory that spanned between the upper course of the Ebro river and the southern basin of the western Pyrenees, a region that coincides with present-day Navarre, western Aragon and northeastern La Rioja, in the Iberian Peninsula. The Vascones are often considered ancestors of the present-day Basques to whom they left their name.
Coins of Arsaos, Navarre, 150-100 BC, showing Roman stylistic influence. British Museum.
Ptolemy, who listed the main cities of the Vascones.
Navarre, officially the Chartered Community of Navarre, is a landlocked foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and Nouvelle-Aquitaine in France. The capital city is Pamplona. The present-day province makes up the majority of the territory of the medieval Kingdom of Navarre, a long-standing Pyrenean kingdom that occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees, with its northernmost part, Lower Navarre, located in the southwest corner of France.
Coins of Arsaos, Navarre, 150 – 100 BC, showing Rome's stylistic influence
Castle of Xabier
Carlists in retreat to the Irache monastery during the Third Carlist War
Memorial to the Charters of Navarre erected by popular subscription in Pamplona, after the Gamazada (1903)