Basque people

Basque Identity Formation The Basque Country, although not geographically large, is home to one of the most, diverse, historical and ancient cultures of the World. Euskal Herria, more commonly known as the Basque Country, is located on the Spanish-French boarder and is made up of seven Basque Provinces, three on the French side and four on the Spanish side. Labourd, Basse-Navarre, and Soule form the French Basque territory Iparralde, the northern side. Vizcaya, Alava, Guipuzcoa, and Navarra form

In the Basque country (and in Basque communities in the United States), identities are formed in different ways depending on your family background, especially where you are from. Basques living in traditional, rural communities live very different lives than Basques living in urban Basque areas, or Basques living in North America. While there are many differences between the identities of the people in these different communities, they all have their Basque-ness in common. In rural Basque areas

and language unrelated to the dominant cultures around it. These are the Basques who have struggled to retain their customs through invasions and cultural repression. The territory which they call home is a small but powerful force within Spain. Spanish ideologies exerted upon them in recent memory have put a damper on Basque cultural practices and language, but out of this came Basque nationalism. The means used by Basque nationalists to gain independence are sometimes questionable and violent

terrorist group that existed in the Basque region of Spain and in the southwestern part of France. Founded in 1959, it originated as a group that promoted the traditional Basque culture. What started as an organization that wanted to spread Basque pride, ended with a terrorist group that had a goal of getting independence for the Basque Country. While the ETA terrorist group was in action, they killed an estimated 857 people, 576 of which were located within the Basque region (Martin-Peña). The ETA developed

Self-Determination in the Basque Country The Basques, settled on the Franco-Spanish border, are a people who do not have a country that exists as an entity of its own. They are not recognized internationally. Their borders are not respected, and their culture is repressed. Thus the history of the Basque Country is one of contentious protest against imposed conditions, unremitting effort in defense of its identity and a relentless search for a means of democratizing public life

the past” is a common strategy for extremist groups to justify their actions. Reminding the historical repression of the Basque identity is actually the strategy adopted by ETA to justify its actions. Such as strategy turns out to be inefficient in democratic Spain. At first, the heavy repression undertaken by the Franco government boosted ETA’s support not only in the Basque country but also internationally. The main strategies of ETA were

There are many groups of people throughout the world, who have either managed to keep their system of values and traditions relevant or have been forced to conform to the modern ways of the region they inhabit. The Basque people are a group of indigenous that claim the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains around the Bay of Biscay in northern Spain and southern France for thousands of years. Indigenous people are originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native. By analyzing and interpreting

and after the War. There is one painting in particular that I am referring to. This painting is none other than, famous artist, Pablo Picasso’s painting of Guernica. Guernica is a famous piece of artwork created in 1937. It depicts the bombings of a Basque Country village in northern Spain by German and Italian warplanes during the Spanish Civil War. The attack was unsuspected and unavoidable. Nearly three-quarters of the people’s homes were demolished and a large number of their population perished

The Basques are people who inhabit a region spanning over parts of north-central Spain and southwestern France. Some people are still confused as to where they have originated from. Basques are now mainly found in an area traditionally known as Euskal Herria, which is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay. The Basques language is also called the Euskera. The Basque language is an extremely complex language which has no close relatives anywhere else in the

History of the Basque Country Archaeological and ethnographic findings indicate that Basque [people] evolved from Cro-Magnon [...] in this area over a period dating from about 40,000 years ago until distinct features were acquired approximately 7,000 years ago. Two thousand years later the sheep, not native to these lands, was introduced and horse and cattle farming came into being, as shown by Adolf Staffe. These circumstances made it necessary for the people to travel periodically