Pam·plo·na (pām-plō'nə, päm-plō'nä) A city of northern Spain east-southeast of Bilbao. An ancient Basque city, it was captured by the Visigoths, Franks, and Moors and became the capital of the kingdom of Navarre (824-1512). The annual running of the bulls during the feast of San Fermin was celebrated in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926). Population: 195,000.