Orbaizeta
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right|thumb|200px|Old church in Orbaizeta Orbaizeta is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Spain
- Official name
- Orbaitzeta
- Demonym
- orbaizetar
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Merindade of Sangüesa
- Continent
- Europe
- Official language
- Spanish
- Population
- 243
- Area
- 82.31
- Elevation
- 765
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Saint-Michel
- Image
- Orbaitzeta eliza.JPG
- Licence plate code
- NA
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- Commons category
- Orbaizeta
- postal code
- 31670
- female population
- 98
- male population
- 97
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right|thumb|200px|Old church in Orbaizeta Orbaizeta is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.
==History== left|thumb|150px|The builders of the Orbaizeta foundry channeled the Rio Irati underneath. On 15–17 October 1794, the Battle of Orbaizeta was fought in the area. General Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey led the French Army of the western Pyrenees to victory over General Pedro Téllez-Girón, 9th Duke of Osuna, who commanded the Spanish army. During the fighting, the French army seized the cannon foundry located four km north of the town.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orbaizeta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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