Basque Country
Bilbao's autonomous community
Basque Country is a region spanning the western Pyrenees in northern Spain and southwestern France, home to the Basque people and their language, Euskara—one of Europe's oldest, unrelated to any other known language.
The Spanish portion has significant political autonomy.
The region is known for its distinct cultural identity, cuisine, and historically, separatist movements.
Basque court game
- jai alaiBasque basket-ball wall sport
- espadrilleRope-soled canvas shoe
- beretFlat wool cap
- carnivalTraveling amusement attraction
Franco-Spanish mountain range
Separate from others
- agglutinativeMorphemes chained, roots intact
- ergative-absolutiveGrammar where intransitive subjects pattern with objects
- bilingualismProficiency in two languages
- revitalizationRestoring vigor or vitality
dialects · morphology · phonology · syntax · declensions · lexicon · philology · linguistics
Ruling oneself independently
- statuteEnacted written rule
- devolutionTransferring power locally
- home ruleDelegated local autonomy
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
parliament · legislature · sovereignty · jurisdiction · competences · charter · federalism · power-sharing
Spanish dried cod
Record of past events
- traditionsLong-established customs passed down
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- mythologyBody of traditional tales
dolmens · steles · cave paintings · whaling · seafaring · cider houses · rural life · customs
pelota
Basque court game
- jai alaiBasque basket-ball wall sport
- espadrilleRope-soled canvas shoe
- beretFlat wool cap
txalaparta · carnival · fiesta
Pyrenees
Franco-Spanish mountain range
Biscay · Navarre · Cantabrian Sea · Bay of Biscay · Atlantic coast
isolate
Separate from others
- agglutinativeMorphemes chained, roots intact
- ergative-absolutiveGrammar where intransitive subjects pattern with objects
- bilingualismProficiency in two languages
revitalization · dialects · morphology · phonology · syntax · declensions · lexicon · philology · linguistics
self-government
Ruling oneself independently
- statuteEnacted written rule
- devolutionTransferring power locally
- home ruleDelegated local autonomy
decentralization · parliament · legislature · sovereignty · jurisdiction · competences · charter · federalism · power-sharing · constitution
bacalao
Spanish dried cod
history
Record of past events
- traditionsLong-established customs passed down
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
mythology · dolmens · steles · cave paintings · whaling · seafaring · cider houses · rural life · customs · ethnography
- FranceParis, Notre-Dame, Lyon, croissant, Toulouse
- SpainMadrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia, Granada
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- Iberian HistorySpain, Portugal, Iberia, Castile, Aragon
- Spanish HistoryReconquista, Spanish Inquisition, Spanish Empire, conquistadors, Catholic Monarchs