{
  "g": "h,empire,europe",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Kingdom of Navarre",
  "now": "spain",
  "years": "824–1620",
  "id": "navarre",
  "index": "c/spain:824",
  "title": "Flag of the Kingdom of Navarre",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "red",
      "hex": "#ce1126",
      "note": "Gules field."
    },
    {
      "color": "gold",
      "hex": "#ffcc00",
      "note": "Chain of Navarre with emerald at centre."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Kingdom of Navarre (824–1620) was a Basque-Romance Pyrenean kingdom that straddled today's Spain-France border\n - **Construction:** a red field with the golden **Chain of Navarre** — a radial eight-pointed pattern of heavy chains with a central emerald, said to commemorate Sancho VII breaking the chains around the Almohad caliph's tent at Las Navas de Tolosa (1212)\n - The chain-and-emerald survives on today's Spanish region of Navarra's flag and arms",
  "flag": "empires/navarre.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Kingdom of Navarre",
    "officialName": "Nafarroako Erresuma",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- The southern (Iberian) kingdom was annexed to Castile in 1512; the northern (Pyrenean) kingdom endured until its king became Henry IV of France in 1589\n - The emerald story is legendary — heraldists connect the chains to the **carbuncle** (escarbunclo) motif common in Occitan and Provençal arms\n - Motto: \"Pro libertate patria gens libera state\" (\"A free people stand for the liberty of their country\")",
  "_name": "Kingdom of Navarre",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "navarre"
}