Castillo de San Pedro at Jaca. Citadel. A place for military consolidation, housing, a fortress. This area has been in the way of invasions, refugees fleeing, armies from the now-French side of the Pyrenees and Moors from the Spanish side, and turmoil during the Spanish Civil War of the 20th Century. Spain not participate in WWII. It had its own war at home.
BC. "Iberians" settle in what is now Spain. Some connect this group with a lost tribe of Israel, Heber, etc. Do a search and speculate. Some DNA appears to support middle eastern roots, and extending with expansions into Hibernia, or Ireland now. Interesting hobby research.
1000 BC. Celts migrate/invade; intermarry with Iberians. Then Greeks and Carthaginians colonized coasts and islands
3d Century BC. Rome took over from Greeks and Carthaginians
5th century. Roman Empire falls. Vandals take over.
420. Visigoths invade, oust the Vandals, establish monarchy, return allegiance to Rome. Hispano-Romans result?
438. Suevi invade. Who? We usually just hear of Franks (Charlemagne) and Visigoths. See this Germanic group and its place in history at http://www.academia.edu/1523816/Identity_and_Interaction_the_Suevi_and_the_Hispano-Romans,
paper by Jorge C. Arias 2007, Univ. of VA
711. Muslims invade.
718. Within some seven years, Muslims were victorious across most of Spain, with only part of the north of Spain still unconquered. Blitzkrieg.
Jaca -- eclipsed, little reported
11th Century: Jaca again becomes recognized as a city, and became the residence place for the monarchs, thanks to King Sancho IV, see http://jaca.costasur.com/en/historia.html Question: If this area was still Muslim, how so??
1137. Aragon and Catalonia unite to lead the Reconquest of Spain, to oust the Muslims. Aragon then included Mallorca and Sicily.
1469. Ferdinand of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile (think Columbus 1492) and a united Spain results.
Citadel, Castillo de San Pedro, Jaca, Spain
Area history, Aragon, adjacent to Catalonia, and with its own culture'
Chronology, role of Aragon in areas of Spain invaded, colonized, fought
Chronology of Invasions, Spain
1000 BC. Celts migrate/invade; intermarry with Iberians. Then Greeks and Carthaginians colonized coasts and islands
3d Century BC. Rome took over from Greeks and Carthaginians
5th century. Roman Empire falls. Vandals take over.
420. Visigoths invade, oust the Vandals, establish monarchy, return allegiance to Rome. Hispano-Romans result?
438. Suevi invade. Who? We usually just hear of Franks (Charlemagne) and Visigoths. See this Germanic group and its place in history at http://www.academia.edu/1523816/Identity_and_Interaction_the_Suevi_and_the_Hispano-Romans,
paper by Jorge C. Arias 2007, Univ. of VA
711. Muslims invade.
718. Within some seven years, Muslims were victorious across most of Spain, with only part of the north of Spain still unconquered. Blitzkrieg.
Jaca -- eclipsed, little reported
11th Century: Jaca again becomes recognized as a city, and became the residence place for the monarchs, thanks to King Sancho IV, see http://jaca.costasur.com/en/historia.html Question: If this area was still Muslim, how so??
1137. Aragon and Catalonia unite to lead the Reconquest of Spain, to oust the Muslims. Aragon then included Mallorca and Sicily.
1469. Ferdinand of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile (think Columbus 1492) and a united Spain results.
The equivalent of a Facebook page would be the old heraldry, family feats, connections, great deeds, symbolized in great crests. None of the quadrants here, however, look like the commercial family crest sites for the surname Jaca, in other forms Jacobs, Jacobo, Jacome recalling an affinity for Jacob and perhaps the old story of migrations from the Holy Land, Eber, Heber, Iberia, Hibernia, although inexplicably the site identifies Flanders as place of origin. What? See http://www.houseofnames.com/jaca-coat-of-arms.
That site laid out the basic outline of the chronology here. Are both then unreliable?
Composite Coat of Arms, Jaca, Spain. Castillo de San Pedro
Enthusiasts would divide the coat of arms into quadrants, find what each, even as subdivided further, means. We missed the hours to visit the Museum of Military Miniatures there, see http://www.aspejacetania.com/museos.php?idio=en&Id=131. You go.
Plaque, La Ciudadela, Castillo de San Pedrol Jaca, Spain
Cozy family-run hotel in Jaca, Hotel Nieu. One star. Fear not.
One star only refers to amenities, and this is a five star for clean, friendly, welcoming. It was an easy walk back to the Cathedral of Jaca.
Hotel Nieu, Jaca, Spain. Family-run, spotless, friendly, good food. 
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