Editing Navarre (section)

==Cultural heritage==
Navarre is a mixture of its [[Basque people|Basque]] tradition, the Trans-Pyrenean influx of people and ideas and [[Mediterranean]] influences coming from the [[Ebro]]. The [[Ebro]] valley is amenable to [[wheat]], [[vegetable]]s, [[wine]], and even [[olive tree]]s as in [[Aragon]] and [[La Rioja (Spain)|La Rioja]]. It was a part of the [[Roman Empire]], inhabited by the [[Vascones]], later controlled on its southern fringes by the Muslim [[Banu Qasi]], whose authority was taken over by the [[taifa]] kingdom of [[Tudela, Navarre|Tudela]] in the 11th&nbsp;century.

During the [[Reconquista]], Navarre gained little ground at the expense of the Muslims, since its southern boundary had already been established by the time of the [[Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa]] in 1212. Starting in the 11th century, the [[Way of Saint James]] grew in importance. It brought pilgrims, traders and Christian soldiers from the north. [[Occitan language#Occitan in Spain|Gascons and Occitans]] from beyond the [[Pyrenees]] (called ''Franks'') received self-government and other privileges to foster settlement in Navarrese towns, and they brought their crafts, culture and [[Romance languages]].

Jews and Muslims were persecuted both north and south of Navarre, expelled for the most part during the late 15th century to the early 16th century. The kingdom struggled to maintain its separate identity in 14th and 15th centuries, and after [[Ferdinand II of Aragon|King Ferdinand V]] forcibly conquered Navarre after the death of his wife Queen Isabella, he extended the Castilian expulsion and forcible integration orders applicable to {{transliteration|es|conversos}} and {{transliteration|es|mudejars}} of 1492 to the former kingdom. Therefore, [[Tudela, Navarre|Tudela]] in particular could no longer serve as a refuge after the Inquisitors were allowed.