Navarre

Navarre, one of the 49 provinces of Spain, comprising by far the greater portion of the old kingdom of Navarre, which lasted up to 1512, the other part of which now forms French Basses-Pyrénées; the Spanish province lies on the SW. border of France, is very varied in surface and climate; in the N. the people are chiefly Basques, and are much more energetic than the southern Spaniards; maize, wheat, and red wine are the chief products.

Population (circa 1900) given as 304,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)