It was a part of the Roman Empire, inhabited by the Vascones, later controlled on its southern fringes by the Muslims Banu Qasi, whose authority was taken over by the taifa kingdom of Tudela in the 11th century.
Ona je bila dio Rimskog Carstva , naseljena Vaskoncima, kasnije na svojim južnim rubovima pod kontrolom muslimana Banu Qasi, čija je vlast bila preuzeta od strane taifa kraljevstva Tudela u 11. stoljeću .