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RONCESVALLES (Fr. Roncevaux)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 689 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RONCESVALLES (Fr. Roncevaux)  , a
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village of
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northern
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Spain, in the
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province of
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Navarre; situated on the small
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river Urrobi, at an
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altitude of 3220 ft. among the
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Pyrenees, and within 5 M. from the
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French frontier . Pop . (1900) 152 .
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Roncesvalles is famous in
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history and
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legend for the defeat of
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Charlemagne and the
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death of
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Roland (q.v.) in 778 . The small collegiate
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church contains several curious
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relics associated with Roland, and is a favourite
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place of
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pilgrimage . The
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battle is said to have been fought in the picturesque valley known as Val
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Carlos, which is now occupied by a
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hamlet bearing the same name, and in the adjoining
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defile of Ibaneta . Both of these are traversed by the
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main road leading
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north from Roncesvalles to St
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Jean Pied de
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Port, in
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France .

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