Lekuona Etxebeste, Miren Arantzazu

48 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

OLATZ, OUR LADY OF (Hermits)

Hermitage and Virgin venerated in Azpeitia, Gip. Probably founded in the 14th century, the church, renovated in modern times, houses the Virgin of Ola(...)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

PEÑA Y GOÑI, Javier (Biographies)

President of the Orfe n Donostiarra in the period 1910-1932.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

Gámiz, Pedro de (Painters)

16th-century painter from Vitoria . In 1564 he painted the Chapel of the Kings in San Pedro de Vitoria. We know that in 1572 he joined Andrés de MiaÃ(...)Read the article