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    Béarn (US: /beɪˈɑːrn/; French: [beaʁn]; Occitan: Bearn [beˈaɾ] or Biarn; Basque: Bearno or Biarno; Latin: Benearnia or Bearnia) is one of the traditional...
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  • Béarn or Bearn can refer to: Béarn, a former province of France Estates of Béarn, the former Provincial Estates of Béarn Fors de Bearn, or fueros of Béarn...
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  • also intended to help absorb a torpedo detonation. Béarn, named for the historic province of Béarn, was ordered on 30 December 1912 and was laid down...
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    place began to be known as Béarn (in honor of the Béarn Regiment). Its post office opened in 1941. Because it was known as Béarn in common use, the name...
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    France) formally incorporated Béarn as a province of France. The citation of a certain "Gaston [son] of Centule, viscount of Béarn" (Gasto Centuli vicecomes...
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  • Pierre Béarn (French: [beaʁn]; 15 June 1902 – 27 October 2004) was a French writer. He was born Louis-Gabriel Besnard in Bucharest, Romania. He is known...
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    The viscounts of Béarn (Basque: Bearno, Gascon: Bearn or Biarn) were the rulers of the viscounty of Béarn, located in the Pyrenees mountains and in the...
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    capital of the joint Kingdom of Navarre with the sovereign principality of Béarn. His parents were Jeanne III of Navarre (Jeanne d'Albret) and her husband...
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    Chronicles. As the son of Gaston II of Foix-Béarn and Eleanor of Comminges, the future Gaston III was heir to the Foix-Béarn dynasty. This house was established...
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    11th century by the Viscounts of Béarn, to protect the ford which was a strategic point providing access to the Bearn valleys and to Spain. The city takes...
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