The Vascons (Latin : Vascones) were an ancient people who, before the arrival of the Romans, inhabited the region in what is now Spain, north of the Ebro river (present day Navarre). It is likely that they are ancestors of the present-day Basques.
Having suffered defeats at the hands of Pompey and Augustus, they were absorbed into the Roman Empire, under which they may have prospered.
The Vascons were finally forced to retreat from their lands and head northward by the invasion of the Visigoths in the 5th and 6th centuries and to move into what is today Basque country.
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In the year 407, Vascon troops fought on the orders of Roman commanders Didimus and Verinianus, rejecting an attack by Vandals, Alans and Sueves.
The independent Vascones, already a generic name for all Basques, stabilised their first polity under the Merovingian Franks: the Duchy of Vasconia, whose borders to the south were never clear.
When Charlemagne, after a failed attempt of conquest of Zaragoza, destroyed the walls of this city, the Vascons annihilated his rearguard in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass.
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