Destruction of Pamplona. Charles returns to France, having become enemies of the entire territory Zaragoza and Barcelona. Ibn al-Arabi, free, along with his sons, can now oppose the Emperor if he tries to return via Huesca, which would be the shortest route from Zaragoza. His resentment is paid for by the Basques of Pamplona. The Annales , closer to the facts, limit themselves to recording that Charlemagne destroyed Pamplona, subduing the Basques and Navarrese, and that Pamplona was a city of the Navarrese. The new Annales Regii , adds that he returned to Pamplona, but also adds that he razed the city walls so that it could not rebel in the future: Pompelonem, revertitur. Cuius walls, no rebellare posset, ad solum usque destruxit, ac regredi statuens, Pyrinei saltum ingressus est. (New Annales Regii). You razed the walls of the city to the ground so that it could not rebel, and, deciding to return, they entered the Pyrenees Pass. In the s. X, much later than the events, the chroniclers misinterpret their sources and the Saracens enter the scene as possessors of Pamplona when Charles retreats towards France. They are, fundamentally, two, Regino de Prum and the later Annales Mettenses: Eiectis itaque Sarracenis de Pampilona, murisque eiusdem civitatis dirutis, Vasconibusque subiugatis, in Franciam revertitur. (Regino Prum abbas. Chron Pertz, MGH, I). The Saracens having also been driven out of Pamplona, the walls of the city destroyed, and the Vascones subjugated, he returned to France. This chronicler, writing one hundred and thirty years after the events, confesses that he followed the Vita Karoli of Saint Eparchii, which makes no mention of the Saracens at all. The other important text is this one from the new Annales Mettenses, which also does not respect its predecessors: Post haec, eiectis Satracenis etiam de Pampilona, murisque eiusdem civitatis dirutis, Hispanis, Wasconibus et Navarris subiugatis, in Franciam reuertitur. (Later Annales Mettenses). After this, the Saracens having also been driven out of Pamplona, the walls of the city destroyed; the Hispanos, Vascones, and Navarrese having been subdued, he returned to France. The name of the Navarrese began to be mentioned after the dismemberment of Vasconia in 768 by Charlemagne, with each region and district left to its own devices. It must have been a small territory in the region of Estella towards Pamplona that is now cited as their stronghold. It is noteworthy that the fortifications of Pamplona were of Roman construction and very important. From the description accompanying the letter De Laude Pampilone epistola, we know that its walled enclosure, sixty-three feet thick, eighty-four feet high, and a perimeter of one thousand diextremes, was dotted with seventy-seven towers.