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The fortress of Amaiur, sitting on a hill by the village, was one of the key medieval strongholds of the
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: ''Amaiur''; Spanish
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: ''Maya de Baztán''; officially: Amaiur-Maya) is a village in the municipality of Baztan in the autonomous region
An autonomous administrative division (also referred to as an autonomous area, zone, entity, unit, region, subdivision, province, or territory) is a subnational administrative division or territory, internal territory of a sovereign state that has ...
of Navarre
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in Spain
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. It is situated in the Pyrenees mountain range close to the border with France
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.
History
The fortress of Amaiur, sitting on a hill by the village, was one of the key medieval strongholds of the Kingdom of Navarre
The Kingdom of Navarre ( ), originally the Kingdom of Pamplona, occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees, with its northernmost areas originally reaching the Atlantic Ocean (Bay of Biscay), between present-day Spain and France.
The me ...
. It was one of the few fortresses in Navarre making a stand against the Castilian invasion of 1512, once they had taken over Pamplona. It bore witness to frequent battles between the combined French-Navarrese and the Spanish imperial forces (Ferdinand the Catholic, Charles V), with the most famous being the Battle of Amaiur (Maya) in 1522, when the Mayor-Alcaide of the town and Castle of Amauir-Maya Don Jaime Velaz de Medrano and his son Don Luis Velaz de Medrano held the last Navarrese stronghold in an attempt to resist the Spanish (Castilian-Aragonese) push.
The Battle of Maya
The Battle of Maya (25 July 1813) saw an First French Empire, Imperial French corps led by Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon attack the 2nd Infantry Division (United Kingdom), British 2nd Division under William Stewart (1774–1827), William ...
(25 July 1813) was fought by French and British forces during the Peninsular War
The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Kingdom of Portugal, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French ...
, in the Maya Pass close to the village.
See also
*Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre
The Spanish conquest of the Iberian part of Navarre was initiated by Ferdinand II of Aragon and completed by his grandson and successor Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V in a series of military campaigns lasting from 1512 to 1524. Ferdinan ...
References
Populated places in Navarre {{Navarre-geo-stub