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Basque Country

Basque Country

The Basque Country is a land full of contrast .Three main cities and a lot of small towns historically close to the world out side.

Terminology

Some Data

Web Information

  • Basque Flag: The Ikurrina.
  • Basque National Day: Aberri Eguna, March 28
  • Basque National Anthem: Gernikako Arbola
  • Lendakari:Basque Regional President

  • ETA: Basque Homeland and Freedom
  • Philosophical Founder: Frederico Krutwig Sagredo
  • Batasuna: (Union) The Political Party of ETA
  • Liberados: Full-time members, so called because they were freed from the working world to dedicate themselves entirely to the cause.
  • Txakurra: Derogatory Basque term for police officers.

The Basque Country

  • French Basque Country
  • Language: 20 - 33 % basque speakers is France (40 000)
  • Dialects: Souletin, Bas-Navarrais, Labourdin.
  • From 1800 to 1970: 100,000 to 200,000 emigrants towards North-America
  • Spanish Basque Country
  • Area: 17,682 km^2
  • Population: 2,171,000
  • Status: autonomus province (depuis 18-12-1979)
  • Capital: Vitoria (Gasteiz) - CAV
  • Population: 210,000
  • Alava (E)
  • Castillan: 86,7 %
  • Basque: 13,3 %
  • Guipuzcoa (E)
  • Castillan: 42,4 %
  • Basque: 57,6 %
  • Bizcaye (E)
  • Castillan: 73 %
  • Basque: 27 %
Euskadi.net

A full view of what is today the Basque Country autonomy in Spain. Its institutions, economy and live.

Basque Journal

An online jounal that explain all you need to know about the Basque Country and its desire for independece.

Turism

The Basque Country is in the north of Spain full of mountains and beutifull beaches.

Peace

The Association for Peace in the Basque Country is a civil, pacifist, plural movement, and independent from any political party and institution.

Basque Fight

The confict is historical, a consequence of the agression, conquest and domination of Navarre by Spain and France.

Basta ya!

Journalist, Intelectuals, Professor and anyone who desagree with Basque Nacionalist ideas is a target for ETA.


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