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 ==History==
 [[Image:Bayonne.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Bayonne. View from the other side]]
In the [[3rd century]] AD, the area was the site of a [[Roman]] ''[[castrum]]'', named ''Lapurdum''.
 By the [[12th century]], the city, now known as Bayonne, was an important port, with a mixed [[Basque]] and [[Gascon]] population. As part of [[Aquitaine]], it was ruled by [[England]] between [[1151]] to [[1452]] and was a key commercial centre at the southern end of the English kingdom.
 Its importance waned somewhat when the French king, [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]], took the city at the end of the [[Hundred Years' War]] and the Adour changed course shortly afterwards, leaving Bayonne without its access to the sea. The French, however, realised Bayonne's strategic site near the [[Spain|Spanish]] border and in [[1578]] dug a canal to redirect the river through the city once again.
 
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 ==History==
 [[Image:Bayonne.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Bayonne. View from the other side]]
In the [[3rd century]] AD, the area was the site of a [[Roman Empire|Roman]] ''[[castrum]]'', named ''Lapurdum''.
 By the [[12th century]], the city, now known as Bayonne, was an important port, with a mixed [[Basque]] and [[Gascon]] population. As part of [[Aquitaine]], it was ruled by [[England]] between [[1151]] to [[1452]] and was a key commercial centre at the southern end of the English kingdom.
 Its importance waned somewhat when the French king, [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]], took the city at the end of the [[Hundred Years' War]] and the Adour changed course shortly afterwards, leaving Bayonne without its access to the sea. The French, however, realised Bayonne's strategic site near the [[Spain|Spanish]] border and in [[1578]] dug a canal to redirect the river through the city once again.
 
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