Amaiur-Maya
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Amaiur-Maya (Basque: Amaiur; Spanish: Maya de Baztán; officially: Amaiur-Maya) is a village in the municipality of Baztan in the autonomous region of Navarre in Spain. It is situated in the Pyrenees mountain range close to the border with France.
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It is catalogued under the topic Populated places in Navarre.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- single entity of population
- Official name
- Maya
- Demonym
- amaiurtar
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Baztan
- Population
- 253
- Elevation
- 281
- Image
- Maya (31299).jpg
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- Commons category
- Amaiur
- postal code
- 31715
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Amaiur-Maya (Basque: Amaiur; Spanish: Maya de Baztán; officially: Amaiur-Maya) is a village in the municipality of Baztan in the autonomous region of Navarre in Spain. It is situated in the Pyrenees mountain range close to the border with France.
==History== thumb|The Royal Castle of Amauir-Maya The fortress of Amaiur, sitting on a hill by the village, was one of the key medieval strongholds of the Kingdom of Navarre. 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amaiur-Maya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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