Lumbier

Lumbier (Basque Irunberri ) is a town in the Spanish region of Navarra and the same main location of an Subzona that region after the zoning Navarra 2000, which roughly corresponds to a comarca. The municipality had 2013 1379 inhabitants on an area of 57 square km. Its center lies at 465 meters above sea level, the most famous attraction is the canyon Foz de Lumbier.

Pliny mentioned in the 1st century, the inhabitants of the area in the description in today's together Zaragoza coming groups Iluberritani. Arnaut d' Oihenart identified 1656 said according to his information Irumberri Lumbier with the Iluberritani of Pliny. Due to the word meaning Iluberritani was considered a failure case and vice forms of Oihenart and other than Ilumberritani. berri is a Basque adjective that means "new ", while ilum " shady, dark " means and most likely refers to the Lumbier. Arturo Campion (1907 ) and Hugo Schuchardt (1907 ) advocated a contrary position, according to which the interpretation of " ilu " as a variant of ili, " village, town," is plausible and Iluberri called a ( new ) Fortification of said strain. Based on the above findings led Ramón Menéndez Pidal from that the original name was transformed into Navarro- Romanesque Lumbierre or Lumbier. Since the 11th century Lumbier was in various documents as Lomberri ( 1039 ), Lumberri (1050 ), Lomber (1102 ), Lombier ( 1121 ) and Lumber ( 1125 ) called, in the 13th century as Lumbier.

Lumbier is in today officially non- Basque-speaking western part of Navarre in the foothills of the Pyrenees on the border with Aragon; up to 10 % of the population but are considered as a Spanish -Basque bilingual. The community Lumbier belongs to Zone 1, Nordwestnavarra, and is eponymous for the Unterzonalbezirk 8, Lumbier. The district also still include Romanzado and Urraul Alto and Bajo Urraul.