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| | The Periphery of Francia: Spain, Britain, Eastern Europe, & Scandinavia |
 | | The artists of these caves would have spoken a language of the first, preagricultural Europeans, from which modern Basque is derived. |
 | | Thus, neither the French nor the Spanish ("Navarra") version of the name of the kingdom is necessarily more "accurate" than the Basque version, "Nafarroa." While Navarre was the dominant Spanish kingdom under Sancho the Great, its power and extent declined quickly and decisively. |
 | | A small part of Navarre north of Pyrenees, Lower Navarre ("Basse Navarre" in French or "Nafarroa Beherea" in Basque), was retroceded by Charles V in 1530, so a landed Monarchy continued, with, of course, its growing French holdings. |
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