IRUN

city, Guipzcoa provincia, in the Basque Country comunidad autnoma (autonomous community), northern Spain. It is situated on the left bank of the Bidasoa River. At Irn the river is bridged to Hendaye, Fr. Irn is the northern terminus of the Spanish Northern Railway and is the most important customs station for Spanish overland trade with the rest of Europe. The city has ironworks, tanneries, potteries, and paper mills. A dependency of neighbouring Fuenterraba until 1766, Irn became a city in 1913. It underwent heavy siege by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War, capitulating after fierce resistance in September 1936. Pop. (1981) 53,312.