Jaca is a city of northeastern Spain near the border with France, in the midst of the Pyrenees in the province of Huesca. Jaca, a ford on the Aragón River at the crossing of two great early medieval routes, one from Pau to Zaragoza, was the fortified city out of which the County and Kingdom of Aragon developed: Jaca was the capital of Aragon until 1097 and also the capital of Jacetania.
Jaca is home to medieval walls and towers surrounding an 11th-century Romanesque cathedral. The citadel, a fortification dating to the late 16th century, is home to a colony of Rock Sparrows. The Moorish writers mention Dyaka as one of the chief places in the province of Sarkosta (Zaragoza). When it was reconquered is unknown. Ramiro I of Aragon (1035-1063) gave it the title of city and in 1063 held within its walls a council, in which, the people were called in to sanction its decrees: an early milestone in the parliamentary traditions in the Pyrenees. The mutiny of the garrison at Jaca, demanding the abolition of monarchy and a democratic republic, December 12-13, 1930, was suppressed with some difficulty. It was an early event that presaged the Spanish Civil War.
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