Tag: history of the basques
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...
Truths about the Bombing of Guernica, by Xabier de Irujo, professor...
Nowadays, we find ourselves living in times when we have to suffer the wave of historical revisionism whose goal is to make the world...
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...
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Brought up by the choice of the new Pope to call himself Francis, several media outlets have been...
The story of the “esneonas”, or the Basque milkmen in Buenos...
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Thanks to Alberto Moroy for is El País (in Uruguay) article, we've discovered a new traditional job that the Basques have...
The same questions, the same answers: Are the Basques Spanish? ...
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A while back, we wrote an entry called "Are the Basques Spanish? NO", which we began by saying:
Are...
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...
A gift for the Basque diaspora in the US: a 1977...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
Today, we want to bring you what we think is a tiny jewel: a report, about five minutes...