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@onthisday further curio. The foral regime was started in then-Kingdom of Navarre, near the end of its status as kingdom.
The documents starting it were signed at the Castle of Xavier, where St Francis of Xavier was born. Francis went on to become co-founder of the Society of Jesus, along with Ignatius Loyola, another Basque.
AFAIK, all other caveats, etc etc
Today in Labor History July 18, 1936: Beginning of Spanish coup and rise of fascist leader, Francisco Franco, and Catalonian uprising against the coup, marking the beginning of the Spanish war against fascism. The anarchosyndicalist union, CNT, went to the democratically-elected Republican Catalan government to request arms, but were denied. So, activists raided the armories and gun shops, as well as arms being stored on ships in harbor. They also seized cars and plated them with armor and built homemade explosives. Rebels in Madrid were defeated early, but anarchists seized control of most of Catalunya and Aragon. And within days, Republican forces had control of nearly all of Catalunya, Aragon, Valencia, Castille-La Mancha, Murcia, Andalucia, Asturias and Cantabria, as well as much of Basque Country. The war lasted over two and a half years, and ended in defeat for the Republicans, with hundreds of thousands of deaths on both sides (including roughly 300,000 civilians), as well as hundreds of thousands of refugees. It also led to a fascist dictatorship, with hundreds of thousands more imprisoned, tortured, exiled, and/or murdered, lasting until Franco’s death in 1975.
No Kings, No Priests
I was wandering around Bilbao this summer with my son, and my Basque friend A., and we stumbled across this bust of John Adams, which I thought was a very peculiar thing to find in the Basque Country. But when I read the inscription, it said:
“Biscay (Letter IV, a Defence of the constitutions of the government of the USA 1787)…this extraordinary people have preserved their ancient language, genius, laws, government and manners without innovation, longer than any other nation of Europe.”
In 1779, Adams and his sons were on their way to Paris to sign a commercial treaty with Great Britain and to end the Revolutionary War. Weather forced them into the Bay Biscay and they had to travel to Paris by land, stopping first in Bilbao. There he visited the Gardoqui family, which had helped fund the American revolutionaries. Adams was appalled at the incredible poverty he saw through Spain, particularly in comparison with the incredible wealth of the Church, writing “I see nothing but Signs of Poverty and Misery, among the People. A fertile Country, not half cultivated, People ragged and dirty, and the Houses universally nothing but Mire, Smoke, Fleas and Lice. Nothing appears rich but the Churches, nobody fat, but the Clergy.”
The actual quote on his statue in Bilbao leaves out an important context. What he actually said was: “While their neighbours have long since resigned all their pretensions into the hands of kings and priests, this extraordinary people [the Basque] have preserved their ancient language, genius, laws, government, and manners, without innovation, longer than any other nation of Europe.” He went on to say: “It is a republic; and one of the privileges they have most insisted on, is not to have a king.” He was not, however, completely sold, criticizing the fact that the vote was only extended to “… a few noble families, unstained, both by the side of father and mother, by any mixture with Moors, Jews, new converts, penitentiaries of the inquisition, &c.”
La culture #Basque est vraiment ancrée dans la population, les habitants du #PaysBasque semblent heureux et fiers de leurs racines qui ne sont pas que des choses du passé. Cette culture vit encore au quotidien, avec un double affichage Basque/Français partout. Et les concepts modernes ont trouvé des mots dans cette langue.
Cela change de mon Ardèche natale où la culture et le patois local sont rattachés au passé paysan. La langue a disparu en deux générations.
In Euskadi (Basque country), solidarity with Palestine is super high. Saw Palestinian flags and solidarity graffiti everywhere, in working class neighborhoods, as well as many of the tourist hot spots. Sometimes the majority of windows in a single apartment complex displayed Palestinian flags.
This should come as no surprise in light of the history of colonialism and oppression of the Basque people by the Spanish state, in general. And, in particular, the mass slaughter of Basque civilians in Guernika on April 26, 1937 by Hitler's Condor Legion, in support of Spanish Fascist leader Francisco Franco.
This can be seen in the accompanying mural, which includes the portion of Picasso's famous Guernica painting depicting a grieving woman holding her dead child, reminiscent of so many of the horrifying images we are seeing coming out of Israel's genocide in Gaza.
It's #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday, and today's theme is #NARROW, like this exterior hallway in #Bakio #Spain #Basque country #bw #blackandwhite #classicmono #architecture #abstract #EastCoastKin #ericgphoto #ArcanumAlumni #photography #G+Circle #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky
Speaking the majority language is key to accessing essential services such as healthcare. This post explores how language identity and disability intersect in Spain’s Basque community.
www.ecmi.deECMI Minorities Blog. Towards Equitable Treatment of Speech-Language Impairments in Minority-Language SpeakersSpeakers of minority languages often face barriers in accessing healthcare in their preferred language despite legal protection of their language rights. In the Basque Autonomous Community, Spanish and Basque are co-official, yet the public healthcare system does not consistently guarantee services in Basque. Basque-speaking speech-language therapists are particularly hard to find within the Basque public healthcare system. Yet, the critical shortage of clinicians providing speech-language therapy in Basque negatively impacts the diagnosis and treatment of Basque speakers with developmental language disorders or acquired language impairments like aphasia. Training opportunities in the Basque Country have been limited, though a new Speech-Language Therapy degree at the University of the Basque Country offers hope. However, multilingualism remains underrepresented in its curriculum. Addressing the shortage of clinical professionals through targeted educational initiatives and increasing…
This week in #FDroid (TWIF) has been live:
* Did you test 1.23? Did you?? Do it!
* Website now in #Catalan and #Basque
* #DolphinEmulator improved and fixed
* #CoMaps takes life, soon™ in the repo
+ 9 new apps
+ 180 updates
& more
Take a peek: https://f-droid.org/2025/06/05/twif.html
f-droid.orgMore languages and forks | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App RepositoryThis Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Thursday, 05 Jun 2025, Week 23F-Droid coreLatest Client has been out for the last 2 weeks. How does it feel? Modernity at...
https://www.europesays.com/2129428/ The longest ‘greenway’ tunnel in Europe is hidden away in this corner of Spain #Basque #Europe #Galicia #Navarra #NewsSpain #newspaper #OlivePressTravel #TheOlivePress
⏚ Il y a un jeu qui va être en financement participatif.
Jeu de carte toulousain et, et, ET DISPONIBLE EN OCCITAN.
Mais accroche-toi, aussi en catalan, breton, corse, basque :D
Catching up with the end of the #itzuliawomen2025, a cycling race in the #Basque Country. The presenter keeps apologizing they they don’t have Spanish translators for the interviews. Who’s going to tell him they are speaking Basque? #cycling
Today in Labor History April 26, 1937: The Nazis and Italian fascists bombed Guernica, a town in the Basque region of Spain, at the request of Spanish fascist leader, Francisco Franco. Later that year, Picasso painted his famous painting, Guernica, in protest of the atrocity. This was during the Spanish Civil War. The Republicans, a coalition of anarchist, socialist and communist partisans, were fighting the Nationalists, led by Franco. They bombed Guernica for two hours, killing between 1,000 and 3,000 civilians, or 20-60% of the population.
The #Petrofuture of Côté Basque. 66m sea level rise--melted ice caps on a 1969 Shell Oil map.
More: https://conspiracyofcartographers.com/petrofuture-france-gallery
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After Spanish fascist dictator Francisco Franco died in 1975, Goikoetxea was honored with the UK’s George Medal and the French Legion of Honor. “When asked what his occupation was in the ceremony at Buckingham Palace, the old smuggler said in broken English that he was in the ‘import-export business.’” He died July 27, 1980 at the age of 82. (3/3)
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Only, they weren’t Gestapo agents, they were members of the Resistance. Goikoetxea remained in hiding until the Nazis abandoned southwestern France a month later. He survived the war, but because he remained a wanted criminal he kept a low profile in fascist Spain. (2/3)
