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Viana (Municipalities)

Municipality in western Middle Navarre, in Tierra Estella, located at the far western edge of the province, bordering Araba and La Rioja. It borders A(...)Read the article

Maule-Lextarre (Municipalities)

A commune situated in the north-eastern part of the French Basque Country, within the historical region of Zuberoa. Mauléon is the capital and also t(...)Read the article

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

GEOGRAPHY (NATURAL REGIONS) (Unassigned)

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La Tamborrada de San Sebastián (Festivals-Events)

A characteristic celebration of the patron saint's day festivities of the city of San Sebastian, which since relatively recent times has also been hel(...)Read the article

GEOGRAPHY (THE BASQUE COUNTRY) (Unassigned)

See GEOGRAFIA (Index).The Basque Country is the name given to the territorial area delimited by the recent use of the Basque language, i.e. (...)Read the article

Txistu (Concept)

There are three known types of recorder: the standard recorder (txistu), the txirula (smaller) and the silbote. They differ in size and tone.The stand(...)Read the article

FRANCISCANS (Religious Orders)

They comprise three orders: the first order (founded in 1209) or Ordo Fratrum Minorum, made up of the Franciscans proper (O.F.M.), the Conventuals (O.(...)Read the article

GEOGRAFÍA (ÁLAVA-ARABA: OROGRAFÍA) (Unassigned)

Ver GEOGRAFÍA. (Voz Índice).Read the article

Gamazada (Concept)

This is the name given to the period of fueros agitation that Navarre experienced from the spring of 1893 to February of the following year, due to th(...)Read the article

BORDER (ECONOMY) (Unassigned)

The commercial border: customs and smuggling. Customs and, on the other side of the border, smuggling, a profession or a crime depending on how you lo(...)Read the article

HUNTING (HISTORY) (Unassigned)

See HUNTING (Index voice).Hunting, as an economic activity, has been known in the Basque Country since the dawn of the Palaeolithic period. At the end(...)Read the article

GEOGRAPHY (GIPUZKOA: THE COAST) (Unassigned)

The Gipuzkoan coast is generally abrupt, with mountains that present to the sea escarpments and high cliffs, or rocky wastes. This rough profile has f(...)Read the article

Salazar, Lope García de (Historians)

Historian and flag bearer, born in the tower house of San Martín de Muñatones, located in the council of San Julián de Muskiz, in the Somorrostro v(...)Read the article

GARNIER, LEONCE (Aircraft Pilots)

Aviation pioneer. In April 1910, he carried out a series of experimental flights in Pamplona with his No. 1 monoplane, but was involved in an accident(...)Read the article

GEOGRAPHY (GIPUZKOA: OROGRAPHY) (Unassigned)

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VELASCO (Surnames)

A Basque surname that has been present in the history of Navarre since its earliest days, as well as in Álava and Biscay, and later in Castile.(...)Read the article

GUDARI (Lexicon)

Basque word equivalent, from the etymological point of view, to the Spanish "guerrero". It is consigned in Aizquivel's 1838 Basque-Spanish Dictionary (...)Read the article

Erauso, Katalina (1592-1650) (Biographies)

Catalina de Erauso y Pérez de Galarraga. A famous adventurer from San Sebastián whose life was spent largely in the West Indies, where she died in t(...)Read the article

Zubia, Jose Maria (Sailors)

Sailing master. Born in Zumaia in 1890. Died on 9 January 1866.Fisherman and son of fishermen. A skilled navigator who loved risk and adventure. He en(...)Read the article