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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

An introduction to the first lehendakari and his flight through Nazi...

Jose Antonio Aguirre disfrazado de José Andrés Álvarez de la Lastra, ciudadano panameño, para huir de los nazis
Historian Ingo Niebel is presenting his book about Lehendakari Aguirre's flight through Occupied Europe to escape Nazi and Francoist persecution

The Guilds of Aránzazu in the colonial capitals of Lima and...

Estampa callejera de México en la etapa colonial
An article by Dr. Elisa Luque Alcaide helps us understand the structure created by the Basques living in the New World colonies

“Javier de Landaburu (1907–1963). Al servicio de la causa vasca”, a...

Javier de Landaburu en la sede del Gobierno Vasco en el exilio (rue Singer)
Historian Leyre Arrieta has just published a book analyzing Javier de Landaburu, a key figure in Basque history

Forbes returns to San Sebastian, to make their readers fall in...

Vista panorámica de  San Sebastian - Donostia. GETTY
The US magazine 'Forbes' has written about the Basque Country again, this time focusing on San Sebastian

The Basques before the independence of the Viceroyalty of New Granada...

Batalla de Boyacá. Óleo de Martín Tovar y Tovar, París, 1880.
Basque-Colombian John Alejandro Ricaurte presents us with the Basques' contribution to the independence process of New Granada.

December 18 (1681), the Day the Guild of Aránzazu of Mexico...

Atrio convento de San Francisco México, donde estaba la capilla de la Cofradía de Nuestra Señora de Aránzazu de México
On this day in 1681, the notary act that created the legal entity of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Aránzazu of Mexico City was...

375th anniversary of Our Lady of Aránzazu in Lima, and its...

375 aniversario de la entronización de la Virgen Aranzazu en Lima
October 18th commemorates the enthronement of Our Lady of Aránzazu at the Chapel of the brotherhood which unites the Basques in Lima