The Basque diaspora is a name given to describe the dispersion of the Basque people throughout the world. The Basques do not have an independent country to call their own, being divided between the Spanish and French states. Many Basques have left the Basque Country for other parts of the globe for economical or political reasons. Basque people - Basques in the United States. There are about 40,000 people of Basque descent living in the United States, according to the 1990 census. T ...

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There are interesting social differences between the Basques and their neighbours. The Basque people have an unusually close attachment with their homes. A person's home is their family in the Basque Country. Even if one does not still live there and has not for generations a Basque family is still known by the house in which it once lived. Common Basque surnames could translate as "top of the hill", or "by the river" all relating to the location of their ancestral home. This is interesting evidence for considering the Basques to be the only people who ...

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Basque people - Origin of the Basques. The key sources for the early history of the Basques are the classical writers, especially Strabo, who in the 1st century AD reported that the north of modern-day Navarre and Aragon (the area immediately east of the modern-day autonomous community of the Basque Country) was inhabited by a people known as the Vascones. Although the word Vascones is clearly related to the modern word "Basque", we do not know for sure if the Vascones were indeed the ancestors of t ...

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  Araba/Álava: 279,000   Bizkaia/Vizcaya: 1,160,000   Gipuzkoa/Guipúzcoa: 684,000   Nafarroa/Navarra: 560,000 France: 730,000 (1993) United States: 47,956 (1990) Argentina: 3,600,000 have Basque origin (2004, est.) Uruguay: 35,000 have Basque origin (2004, est.) Spanish monoglots: 1,525,000 (est.) French monoglots: 654,000 (est.) Basque + Spanish: 600,000 (est.) Basque + French: 76,200 (1991) other: ? The Basques are ...

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List of Basques - Journalists. Cristina Saralegui, television journalist (born in Cuba) List of Basques - Musicians. Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, composer Julián Gayarre, singer Jesús Guridi, composer Mikel Laboa, singer and songwriter Luis Mariano, singer Fermin Muguruza, singer and songwriter Maurice Ravel, composer Domingo Samuido, from Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs ...

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The txistu is a kind of flute that has become a symbol for the Basque people. It is a three-holed flute that can be played with one hand, leaving the other free to play a percussion instrument. In the 18th century, the txistu was appropriated by the Count of Penaflorida and his Basque Illustration cultural revival, and became a part of Basque aspirations into the nobility. The instrument was modified to give it a range of two octaves and a larger version called the silbote was created to accompany polyphonic compositions. Rural txistu musicians continued their own traditions, while the urban txistularis ...

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The Basque Country (Euskal Herria in Basque) is a cultural region that straddles the western Pyrenees mountains that define the border between France and Spain, extending down to the coast of the Bay of Biscay. It corresponds more or less with the historical homeland of the Basque people and language. Basque Country - Geography. According to the Basque tradition, the Basque Country is made up of seven traditional regions. The four regions to the south, form Hegoalde (“south zone”), while t ...

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Ancient Basque mythology is centered around the figure of the goddess Mari, and her consort Sugaar (also called Maju). It is considered a chthonic religion as all its characters dwell on earth or below it. The sky is seen mostly as an empty corridor through which the divinities travel and herd clouds. Basque mythology - Mari and her court. Mari is considered the supreme goddess, and her consort Sugaar the supreme god. Mari is depicted in many different forms: sometimes as various women, as different ...

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According to the Basque tradition, the Basque Country is made up of seven traditional regions. The four regions to the south, form Hegoalde (“south zone”), while the three to the northeast, within France, form Iparralde (“north zone”). The seven regions are: Southern Basque Country Álava (Araba in Basque) Guipúzcoa (Gipuzkoa in Basque) Navarre (Nafarroa in Basque, Navarra in Spanish) Biscay (B ...

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Basque (native name: Euskara) is the language spoken by the Basque people who inhabit the Pyrenees in North-Central Spain and the adjoining region of South-Western France. More specifically, the Basques occupy a Spanish autonomous community known as the Basque Country (Euskadi), which has significant cultural and political autonomy. Basques also make up sizable parts of the population in what is known as the Northern Basque Country in France and the autonomous community of Navarre in Spain. The Standard Basque nam ...

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Aquitaine (Gascon and Occitan: Aquitània; Basque: Akitania) (anciently "Guyenne" or "Guienne") now forms a région in south-western France along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain. Aquitaine - History. In Roman times, the province of Gallia Aquitania originally comprised the region of Gaul between the Pyrenees Mountains and the Garonne River, but Augustus Caesar added to it the land between the Garonne and the Loire River. At this ...

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The Basque diaspora is a name given to describe the dispersion of the Basque people throughout the world. The Basques do not have an independent country to call their own, being divided between the Spanish and French states. Many Basques have left the Basque Country for other parts of the globe for economical or political reasons. Basque diaspora - Basques in the United States. There are about 40,000 people of Basque descent living in the United States, according to the 1990 census. This number is h ...

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A beret (UK: [ˈbɛɹeɪ], US: [bəˈɹeɪ]; IPA) is a soft round cap with a flat crown which is worn by both men and women. The cap fits snugly around the head, and the soft crown can be shaped in a variety of ways – it is commonly pushed to one side. Berets were originally worn by Northern Basque peasants and were knitted from wool. To ...

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Ertzaintza is the police force of the Basque Country, one of the autonomous communities of Spain. A Ertzaintza member is an ertzaina. The origins of the current Ertzaintza, as a police force pertaining to the Basque Country, can be traced back to the old municipal militias, which were popular organizations at the service of local bodies, created to satisfy the need for public safety. But it was not until the 19th century when, setting aside the precedent willingness, the almost permanent police corps of a professional na ...

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The voiceless glottal transition, commonly called a "fricative", is a type of sound used in some spoken languages which often behaves like a consonant, but sometimes behaves more like a vowel, or is indeterminate in its behavior. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is h, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is h. Voiceless glottal fricative - Features. Features of the "voiceless glottal fricative": ...

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As with the Basque language, the Basques are generally considered to be an isolated ethnic group. The Basques are clearly a distinct ethnic group in their native region. They are culturally and especially linguistically distinct from their surrounding neighbors, and the controversial claim has often been made that they are comparably genetically distinct as well. Many Basques, especially in Spain, are strongly, even violently, nationalist, identifying far more firmly as Basques than as citizens of any existing state. Indeed, the only question would seem to be whether the term "ethnic group" is too weak, ...

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The languages of the Caucasus are a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in the Caucasus region of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Linguistic studies allow those languages to be classified into several language families, with little or no discernible affinity to each other. Some of those language families have no known members outside the Caucasus area. The term Caucasian languages may refer to these families specifically, or more ...

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Mari is considered the supreme goddess, and her consort Sugaar the supreme god. Mari is depicted in many different forms: sometimes as various women, as different red animals, as the black he-goat, etc. Sugaar, however, appears only as a man or a serpent/dragon. Mari is said to be served by the sorginak, semi-mythical creatures impossible to differentiate from actual witches or pagan priestesses. The nucleus of witches near Zugarramurdi met at the Akelarre field and were the target of a process in Logroño that was the major ac ...

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After the coup of 18th July 1936, the party felt torn. It shared the rebel side's Catholicism and there was pressure from the Vatican to keep away from the Republic, but the promised autonomy and anti-Fascism led them to side with the legitimate republican government: The Biscayne and Guipuzcoan branches, the more important in number, declared support for the republic, democracy and anti-Fascism in the ensuing Spanish Civil War. In the territory seized by the rebels, PNV members faced tough times: The Al ...

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