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JACA , a See also:

city of See also:northern See also:Spain, in the See also:province of See also:Huesca, 114 M. by See also:rail N. by W. of See also:Saragossa, on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river See also:Aragon, and among the See also:southern slopes of the See also:Pyrenees, 2380 ft. above the See also:sea. Pop. (19oo), 4934. Jaca is an episcopal see, and was formerly the See also:capital of the Aragonese See also:county of Sobrarbe. Its massive See also:Gothic See also:cathedral See also:dates at least from the rith See also:century, and possibly from the 9th. The city derives some importance from its position on the See also:ancient frontier road from Saragossa to See also:Pau. In See also:August 1904 the See also:French and See also:Spanish governments agreed to supplement this See also:trade-route by See also:building a railway from Oloron in the Basses Pyrenees to Jaca. Various frontier See also:defence See also:works were constructed in the neighbourhood at the See also:close of the 19th century. The origin of the city is unknown. The Jaccetani ('IaiKrlravoi) are mentioned as one of the most celebrated of the numerous small tribes inhabiting the See also:basin of the See also:Ebro by See also:Strabo, who adds that their territory was the See also:theatre of the See also:wars which took See also:place in the 1st century B.C. between See also:Sertorius and See also:Pompey. They are probably identical with the Lacetani of See also:Livy (xxi. 6o, 61) and See also:Caesar (B.C. i.

6o). See also:

Early in the 8th century Jaca See also:fell into the See also:possession of the See also:Moors, by whose writers it is referred to under the name of Dyaka as one of the See also:chief places in the province of Sarkosta (Saragossa). The date of its reconquest is uncertain, but it must have been before the See also:time of Ramiro I. of Aragon (1035-1063), who gave it the See also:title of " city," and in 1063 held within its walls a See also:council, which, inasmuch as the See also:people were called in to See also:sanction its decrees, is regarded as of See also:great importance in the See also:history of the See also:parliamentary institutions of the See also:Peninsula. In 1705 Jaca supported See also:King See also:Philip V. from whom, in consequence, it received the title of muy See also:noble, muy Leal y vencedora, " most noble, most loyal and victorious." During the See also:Peninsular See also:War it surrendered to the French in 1809, and was recaptured in 1814.

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