Tag: History of the Basques
The Basque Los Angeles County Sheriff
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
We can imagine the story of Eugene Warren Biscailuz (1883-1969), the Basque-American Sheriff of Los Angeles County, is...
The Basque Press Office: a “light of democracy” during 31 years...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
An article on the radio broadcaster of the Basque Government in exile
The Basque Press Office (Oficina de Prensa para...
Yes, they’re guilty, because they’re Basque, ‘abertzales’, ‘gudaris’, anti-fascists, and members...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
I've been thinking about the articles and reports popping up about "The Basque Swastika", which was presented at...
The BNP/PNV, the swastika, Sweden, the Basques, “good Spaniards”, Orson Welles,...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
This documentary will air on ETB2 at 10:00pm on Monday, January 6, 2013
A personal reflection about this documentary...
The Gypsies who became bertsolaris and their “mixed language” that’s going...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
From a chance encounter on the website Ethnologue.com, which we’ve referred to before because of their unique definition...
Monument to the Navarrese Fueros: “We, the Basques of today”…
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
(originally published in Spanish here).
At the end of the 19th century, when the wounds of the last Carlist...
St. Francis Xavier was NOT born in Spain; St. Francis Xavier...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
Brought up by the choice of the new Pope to call himself Francis, several media outlets have been...
Blas de Lezo, the Basque who Saved the Spanish Empire
The Argentine website Infobae today brings us an article about the history of a Basque man from Pasaia. In Cartagena de Indias, he, with 3,000...
The Orson Welles documentary “The Land of the Basques” available uncut...
Back in the prehistory of this site, around about May 2008, when we were just taking our first hesitant steps on this project, we brought...
The Basques make up “the great exception to all the laws...
There are times when we are completely taken aback by our complete ignorance (that of those writing here) of fundamental aspects of our culture...