Westfjords district commissioner invites Basques to ceremony to revoke 1615 law that sparked massacre known as Slaying of the Spaniards Basques wanting to visit the dramatic fjords of north-western ...

The language families of Europe fall into a few broad categories. There are the Indo-European languages, which include the Romance, Germanic, Slavic and Celtic subgroups, along with Greek and Albanian ...

Two men saw a tree trunk with a "tronza" (traditional Basque saw) during a rural sports championship DNA from ancient remains seems to have solved the puzzle of one of Europe's most enigmatic people: ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When Spain’s dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco died in 1975, Catalonia and the Basque Country had good reason ...

The Basques are a unique population in Western Europe; their language is not related to any Indo-European language. Furthermore, genetically speaking, they have been considered to have distinct ...

There is a trend to consider the gene pool of the Basques as a ‘living fossil’ of the earliest modern humans that colonized Europe. To investigate this assumption, we have typed 45 binary markers and ...

Bill Fitzhugh maps the blacksmith’s shop’s floor, 2008. The Smithsonian research vessel PItsuilak rides at anchor in the bay. Fitzhugh and his team live aboard the boat, which takes its name from the ...

Rural traditions are central to Basque identity, and to their claim to being a nation, different from the rest of Spain. One such tradition took place Saturday in the Basque village of Azpeitia: the ...

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Basques can trace their roots back to the Stone Age and are one of Europe's most distinct people, fiercely proud of their ancestry and traditions. The research adds to previous studies which have ...

WITH THEIR unique language, unrelated to all other European tongues, the continent’s oldest cave paintings, and their seafaring, gastronomic and choral traditions, the Basques have long had a strong ...