Tag: History of the Basques
Colombia Commemorates the Launch of Their Training Ship in Erandio
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia has published a notice on its website about the launching of the training ship Gloria, which we've...
Gregorio Arrien, a Basque, a Passionist, a historian, a patriot, has...
On December 13, we Basques lost one of our guiding lights, one of those people who led a community out of the darkness.
Gregorio Arrien...
“Karmele”: ‘Variety’ reports that a film about two Basque patriots is...
Variety is a prestigious American magazine dedicated to the world of entertainment, which has been published since 1905 and which we've cited before.
This month,...
From Canada: footprints of the Jewish presence in the Basque Country
The website of the Jewish weekly Canadian Jewish News (with a run of 32,000 copies) has just published an article by Ron Csillag discussing the presence of...
110th anniversary of the birth of George L. Steer, the journalist...
We found out thanks to the Twitter account of the Basque Children of '37 Association, a British association that safeguards and dutifully shares the...
Lies and threats against the defenders of the Cause of the...
The past few days, we Basques have had to witness, stupefied, the spectacle of watching Vox, a far-right Spanish party that defends Francoism, accuse...
A book on the history of the Basques from the 17th...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
We've mentioned the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno on many occasions. For a country as small...
The Irujo Brothers, Manuel, Andrés María, and Pello, in memory of...
Mikel Ezkerro was born in Rawson, Chacabuco, Buenos Aires province, and studied at the Jesuit school in Bilbao, in the Basque Country. He continued...
Cider has been “protecting” Basque sailors for centuries
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
BlitzLift is a website that collects "info pills" about history, science, and curiosities. We could spend hours discovering...
The “Basque influence” on the prehistory of Easter Island
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
A while back, we blogged about the story of the king of the Moluku Islands who, in the...