Lumbier

Lumbier municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Navarre
Province :	Navarre
Comarca :	Comarca de Lumbier
Coordinates	42 ° 39 ′  N , 1 ° 19 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 39 ′  N , 1 ° 19 ′  W
Height :	465  msnm
Area :	57.4 km²
Residents :	1,318 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	22.96 inh / km²
Postal code :	31440
Municipality number  ( INE ):	31159
administration
Mayor :	Javier Mauro Gogorcena Aoiz (Agrupación Independiente de Lumbier)

Foz de Lumbier

Lumbier ( Basque Irunberri ) is a place in the Spanish region of Navarra and at the same time the capital of a subzona of that region according to the territorial division of Navarra 2000 , which corresponds roughly to a comarca . In 2019 the municipality had 1,318 inhabitants on an area of ​​57 km². Its center is at an altitude of 465 m, the most famous attraction is the Foz de Lumbier gorge .

In the 1st century, Pliny called the inhabitants of the area the Iluberritani when describing groups coming together in present-day Saragossa . In 1656, Arnaut d'Oihenart identified the Lumbier, called Irumberri , with the Iluberritani of Pliny. Because of the meaning of the word, Iluberritani was viewed as a misspelling and reformed as Ilumberritani by Oihenart and others . berri is a Basque adjective that means "new", while ilum means "shady, dark" and probably refers to the Lumbier gorge. Arturo Campión (1907) and Hugo Schuchardt (1907) took the opposite position, according to which the interpretation of "ilu" as a variant of ili , "village, city", is more plausible and Iluberri referred to a (new) fortification of the named tribe. From the findings mentioned, Ramón Menéndez Pidal derived that the original name was converted to Navarro-Roman Lumbierre or Lumbier . Since the 11th century Lumbier has been named in various documents as Lomberri (1039), Lumberri (1050), Lomber (1102), Lombier (1121) and Lumber (1125), in the 13th century also as Lumbier.

Lumbier is located in the western part of Navarre, now officially non-Basque- speaking, in the pre- Pyrenees on the border with Aragon ; however, up to 10% of the population is considered to be bilingual Spanish-Basque. The municipality of Lumbier belongs to zone 1, northwestern Navarra, and gives its name to its subzonal district 8, Lumbier. The district also includes Romanzado and Urraúl Alto and Urraúl Bajo , among others .

Population development of the municipality

Source: INE archive - graphic processing for Wikipedia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
2. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia III , 24 (Latin).
3. ↑ Oihenart, Notitia utriusque Vasconiae, tum Ibericae, tum Aquitanicae , Paris 1656, p. 90, see Arturo Campión , “ Sobre los nombres de la antigua Baskonia ( Memento of the original of January 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ", Revista Internacional de Estudios Vascos 1, 3 (1907), pp. 749-756, here: 753 (Spanish). 
4. ↑ Carlos Ángel Rizos Jiménez, Toponimia de la Baja Ribagorza Occidental ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Diss. Universität Lleida , 2001, p. 259. The representation refers to the no longer existing place Lumbiarres in the Baja Ribagorza , whose original inhabitants came from Lumbier. 
5. ↑ Campión (1907), pp. 753f. and Schuchardt, Die Iberische Deklination , Vienna: Hölder, 1907, p. 5, after Rizos Jiménez (2001), p. 259 (Spanish).
6. ↑ Menéndez Pidal, Toponimia prerrománica hispana , Madrid: Gredos, 1952, p. 246, after Rizos Jiménez (2001), p. 259
7. ↑ Rizos Jiménez (2001), p. 259, see also Art. Lumbier. Nombre in: Bernardo Estornés Lasa: Enciclopedia Auñamendi (Spanish), online at euskomedia.org

Web link

• Lumbier in: Bernardo Estornés Lasa: Enciclopedia Auñamendi (Spanish), online at euskomedia.org (Basque, Spanish, French, English)