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The Basque Diaspora Archives: an essential part of preserving Basque history...

Ejemplo de fondos del Archivo Diáspora Vasca
The Basque Diaspora Archives: an essential part of preserving Basque history that you can be a part of with your contributions

183th anniversary of the beginning of the end of the ‘fueros’...

El «Abrazo de Vergara» fue la venta de los Fueros vascos a sus enemigos, a cambio de sueldos y rangos para los militares carlistas que acordaron esa traición
October 25, 2022 marks the 183rd anniversary of the beginning of the process to destroy the Basque 'fueros' in the Southern Basque Country

Informing the bees of the death of a relative is an...

Comunicación, por la viuda, a las abejas de la muerte del etxeko-jaun del caserío y presentación del joven heredero. Comienzos S XX. Colección Bernardo Estornes Lasa
The fact that the royal beekeeper informed the bees of the Queen's passing should not have surprised the Basques, as it's an ancient tradition here

500th anniversary of the first circumnavigation of the globe. We’re giving...

Portada La vuelta de Elkano. El molesto triunfo de la gente corriente de Eduardo Santamaria Urtiaga
On the 500th anniversary of the first circumnavigation of the globe, we're giving away an essay about Elkano by Enrique Santamaría which was just published by Eusko Ikaskuntza

Who was the first to sail around the world, Magellan, Elkano,...

Grabado de Juan Sebastián Elkano
National Geographic has just published an article highlighting that it was Elkano who actually achieved the feat. But what if he were a woman?

Irigoyen-Irujo: the Lehendakari’s 1942 New World Tour in Uruguay and the...

Aguirre en el Teatro Florida donde brindó la conferencia “El sentido democrático, social y el de la libertad de los pueblos en los actuales momentos”
Alberto Irigoyen and Xabier Irujo share an article with us about the Lehendakari's 1942 tour's stop in Uruguay, and their final report

German GEO and Der Westen publish an article about Elcano and...

Atardecer en la Playa de Gaztetape de Getaria: Está orientada a mar abierto, lo que la hace atractiva para los surfistas por el oleaje © Manuel Meyer/dpa-tmn
GEO in German and Der Westen publish an article by Manuel Meyer about sailor Juan Sebastian Elcano and his hometown of Getaria

Soccer, European nations, and Basque War Children in Wales: an interview...

Aitor Elizegi  presidente del Athletic Club de Bilbao  (Credit: Athletic Club website)
This isn't the first time we've brought you an article from Welsh journalist Christopher Evans, nor the first time we've brought you an article...

Maurice Ravel, on the 147th anniversary of his birth; “A Basque...

Maurice Ravel dirigiendo a la BOS en 1928
Remembering a Basque composer, perhaps the most universal of all of them, whose nationality and commitment to his country is widely unknown among his compatriots

410th anniversary of the founding of the Brotherhood of Aránzazu of...

Recipiente para los Santos Óleos. Hermandad de Nuestra Señora de Aranzatzu de Lima Siglo XVII. Una de las pocas propiedades que no fueron expropiadas
410th anniversary of the founding of the Brotherhood of Aránzazu of Lima, the first Basque organization in the New World