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Goena Garmendia, Nicolás (Biographies)
Nicol s Goena Garmendia, certified castrator. Son of Juan José Goena Mugica and Mar a Josefa Garmendia Mugica, he was born in Beasain (Gipuzkoa) on A(...)Read the article
SAGASTIVERRI ZAVALA, Joaquín (Biographies)
Joaquín Nicasio Sagastiverri Zavala, certified castrator. Son of Francisco Sagastiverri Balerdi and Mar a Cruz Zavala Illarramendi, he was born in th(...)Read the article
DEBA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT (Industries)
The affair of the Basque nuclear power plants dates back to 1973, the year in which Iberduero presented a coercive plan for the implementation of two (...)Read the article
Bilbao. Demography in the 19th and 20th centuries (Municipalities)
Main article Bilbao .As surprising as it may seem, demographic behaviour is one of the most direct and sensitive barometers the private experience of (...)Read the article
BERMINGHAM, Family (Unassigned)
An important bourgeois family from San Sebastian in the commercial field during the 18th and 19th centuries. Ricardo Bermingham arrived in San Sebasti(...)Read the article
Santana Ezkerra, Alberto (Ethnographers)
Ethnographer. Born in Bilbao in 1960.A graduate in History from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1983), he has been a professor of Medieval His(...)Read the article
MUJICA, Adrián de (Biographies)
Participant in the conspiracy, led by Francisco Roldán, mayor of Santo Domingo, against the power of Christopher Columbus on the Antillean island in (...)Read the article
Urgoiti, Maria Jesus (Sculptors)
Basque sculptor, born in Tolosa and based in La Coruña, she has exhibited her work in various places in Galicia, Donostia, Madrid and Paris.In his st(...)Read the article
Ebro (Streams)
It comes from the Latin word (H)Iberus . This term has been mentioned since ancient times by different historians and geographers, both Greek and Lati(...)Read the article
Mercedes-Benz Spain - Vitoria Factory (Industries)
With registered offices in Madrid, the Vitoria-based factory is dedicated to the manufacture of industrial vehicles (vans).It was created as "Industri(...)Read the article
Alcega y Alquiza, Diego de (Military)
(1554-1588, Hondarribia). He was General of the Indies. He was the nephew of Archbishop Cristóbal de Roxas. Son of Juan de Elcega and San Millán and(...)Read the article
Irrintzi (Theatre)
Bilingual musical-theatrical production created in 1977 by Luis Iturri and the Akelarre group based on poems by Blas de Otero , Gabriel Celaya and Gab(...)Read the article
Miñano, Andrés de (Painters)
16th-century painter from Vitoria; according to documentation, he appears as a resident of Estella (Navarre) and Vitoria . In 1564 he painted the chap(...)Read the article
BERBER (Lexicon)
Basque has been compared to Berber. These comparisons are limited to a few words such as iker (Berber) and aker (Basque), "male goat"; aa and anai , "(...)Read the article
Hijón Ibarra, Maximiano (Architects)
February 21st 2025 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Maximiano Hijón Ibarra. To mark the occasion, a book entitled Maximiano Hijón, el art(...)Read the article
IBÁÑEZ DE GAUNA RUIZ DE ARBULO, Lourdes (Biographies)
Lourdes Ibáñez de Gauna Ruiz de Arbulo (Hondarribia, June 19, 1941) was a social worker who worked in the Villaverde district, south of Madrid.After(...)Read the article
Sucunza, Miguel (Athletics)
Miguel Sucunza was a prominent Navarrese runner, originally from Leitza (Leiza), who developed his athletic career mainly 1947 and 1952. Although bor(...)Read the article
Gaxen, Inesa (Biographies)
Basque heroine, victim of the religious persecution of the first third of the 17th century. She was from Labastide-Clairence , in Lower Navarre, and w(...)Read the article
Aznar Galíndez I (Monarchy and Nobility)
Azenari Galindones (809-838?).Count of Aragon, under Aquitanian tutelage, he succeeded Aureolus in 809. He was the son of Galindo Aznar, Count of Riba(...)Read the article
BAYONET (Lexicon)
Steel weapon used for assault. It is a generally held opinion that the first bayonets were invented in Bayonne and that the very name given to this we(...)Read the article