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Navarre, Lower, Kingdom of

Substate Defunct 1516 CE – 1620 CE Capital St Jean Pied de Port Aquitaine France

Lower Navarre is a traditional region of the present day Pyrénées Atlantiques département of France.

It corresponds to the northernmost merindad of the Kingdom of Navarre during the Middle Ages.

After the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre (1512–24), this merindad is restored to the rule of the native king, Henry II.

Its capitals are Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and Saint-Palais.

In the extreme north there is the little sovereign Principality of Bidache.

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