Lekuona Etxebeste, Miren Arantzazu
35 articles
Antropología Física (Concept)
The Basque people have always lived at the western end of the Pyrenees, straddling the border Spain and France and looking towards the Bay of Biscay.(...)Read the article
Pastoral (Pastoral)
The pastoral is the most complete and developed popular dramatic expression of Basque literature. It constitutes, together with bersolarismo, the basi(...)Read the article
NIÑO, NIÑA (CONCEPTO DE INFANCIA) (Unassigned)
El concepto de la infancia no ha permanecido invariable a través del tiempo. En Europa, hasta la Edad Moderna no se la consideró como una etapa espe(...)Read the article
IBAÑETA (Mountains)
A trans-Pyrenean pass at an altitude of 1,057 m that links Upper Navarre with the former Sixth Merindad de Ultrapuertos, or Lower Navarre. This eminen(...)Read the article
Emakume Abertzale Batza (Associations)
Women's Association of the Basque Nationalist Party . Its activities cover two periods separated by seven years of dictatorship and one of transition (...)Read the article
BOY, GIRL (THE ABANDONED CHILD) (Unassigned)
Despite the very high rates of illegitimate births recorded in the Basque Country during the Modern Age, child abandonment was very rare. It would see(...)Read the article
Charcoal. History (Concept)
Charcoal, made from beech, chestnut, or oak, has been of great importance in past centuries for fueling forges. The charcoal burners [ ikazki ak ] wor(...)Read the article
CELTS (Lexicon)
For centuries, the so-called Iberian peoples had established themselves in many Pyrenean valleys and neighboring plains, especially in the basins of t(...)Read the article
TUBAL (Lexicon)
Grandson of the biblical patriarch Noah, Tubal was, according to some ancient authors, the one who populated Iberia after the Flood. Flavius Jos(...)Read the article
Charlemagne (Monarchy and Nobility)
Carolus the Great .King of the Franks and Emperor of the West. Born in Neustria in 742, he died in 814.He was undoubtedly the founder of the Carolingi(...)Read the article
Historia de las armas (Concept)
The Basque Country was one of the main arms supply centers for the Spanish monarchy from the late Middle Ages. During the time of the Catholic Monarch(...)Read the article
Baztandarren Biltzarra (Concept)
This is the name given to the most representative festival in the Baztan valley. It has been held on the Sunday after or before the festival of Santia(...)Read the article
KASKAROT (Lexicon)
Cascarote. A racial minority established in Laburdi in the coastal area, especially in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Ziburu and Urruña. Their origin is unknown,(...)Read the article
KOORDINADORA ABERTZALE SOZIALISTA (Associations)
Political organisation created in the summer of 1975 to coordinate the various groups that had emerged around ETA: ETA PM, ETA M, EHAS, LAIA, LAB LAK.(...)Read the article
Lancre, Pierre de (Politicians and Public Officials)
Bordels magistrate born in 1553 and died in 1631.His grandfather Bernard de Rosteguy, a wealthy wine-grower born in Juxue, had settled in Saint-Macair(...)Read the article
Nueva Canción Vasca. 1960-1985 (Concept)
En general tiende a considerarse que los orígenes de la nueva canción vasca se encuentran en Michel Labéguerie, dado que este médico de Euskadi No(...)Read the article
REY DE LA FABA (Entities)
An ancient institution of the Royal Court of Navarre, in which on the day of Epiphany a poor child was crowned and presented and entertained by the ki(...)Read the article
March of Oriamendi (Musicals)
The "Marcha de Oriamendi" is a hymn composed by the maestro José Juan Santesteban to commemorate the liberal victory over the Carlists on the mountai(...)Read the article
History of Pharmacy (Concept)
The word "pharmacy" derives from the Greek word pharmakon (remedy). However, the desire to cure illness has existed since the dawn of humanity, even b(...)Read the article
Pop-Rock in the Basque Country (Concept)
It has been called pop or pop-rock music the music made internationally from the 1950-60s onwards, under the main influence of the new Anglo-Saxon rhy(...)Read the article