The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler Volume 4, The Medieval World.

Episode 18, The Battle of Ronsevo Pass. Yes. Oh, you, oh, oh, Oh, you know. Now. Oh, now.

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Oh, you know. Oh, you know. This week's episode finds us at the Ronservo Pass, which is a mountain pass in the far north of Spain in the community of Navarre

leading through the Pyrenees mountain range.

Heading south from the pass

takes you to the Spanish city of Pamplona,

while heading north takes you to the French border.

Very little is known about the people who inhabited this area before the arrival of the Romans.

With its close proximity to the Bay of Biscay, this area of the Pyrenees was at the western end

of the land bridge between Spain and France, which was the opposite side that was traversed by the Carthaginians led by Hannibal when they invaded the Roman Republic.

The Carthaginians and Romans were much more interested in the lands of the Pyrenees that bordered the Mediterranean Sea, so the peoples of this area of the Pyrenees were somewhat left alone.

The Romans started learning more about this area

and the people who lived there during the first century B.C.

They identified that they spoke a strange language totally unlike the Latin

languages and dialects that the Romans spoke. These people that the Romans

discovered in this area are known as the Vascons.

We don't really know anything in particular about the pre-Roman Vascons because each time that they were encountered and they were documented, there were ambiguities and

contradictions that have to make the reader wonder whether each document addressed the same

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