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	Encyclopedia: Basque Country (autonomous community)
		Basque Country (Basque Euskadi, Spanish PaÃs Vasco) it is not a really country; is an autonomous community within Spain whose capital is Vitoria (Basque Gasteiz).
		Vizcaya province Vizcaya (Basque Bizkaia) is a province of northern Spain, in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of the Basque Country.
		GuipÃºzcoa province GuipÃºzcoa (Basque Gipuzkoa, Spanish GuipÃºzcoa, in English sometimes as Guipuscoa) is a province of northern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of the Basque Country.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Basque-Country-(autonomous-community) (1871 words)

	Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Toledo, the flag of Castile-La Mancha was commonly flown, again often appearing alongside the European and Spanish flags with the latter centered and higher.
		In fact, I only saw two Spanish flags in the city — one on the Palacio de Justicia where it appeared along with the Basque and European flags, centred and higher than the others; and the second on the main post office where it was flown to the left of the Basque flag.
		Citizens are not otherwise sworn in to the flag.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/es.html (1034 words)

	Euskal Herria Journal \| A Basque Journal \| News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Basque nationalist flag is the symbol of the Basque nationalist community.
		It is true that Spain's Basque nationalist government of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa has not to date banned the flag of Navarre from public places.
		The Nafarroa Oinez is the festival of the Basque lkastolas (Basque language schools) in Navarra.
	www.ehj-navarre.org /news/n_conpol_bg090602.html (420 words)

	Basque Country (autonomous community) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Basque Country (Basque Euskadi, Spanish País Vasco) is an autonomous community within Spain whose capital is Vitoria (Basque Gasteiz).
		Before the Spanish Constitution of 1978 and its system of autonomous communities, these three provinces were known in Spanish as the Provincias Vascongadas, a term still used by some nostalgics of the Franco era and by independentists who despise the current autonomy and reserve "Basque Country" for the union of the seven territories.
		The economy of the Basque Country is one of the most developed in Spain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Basque_Country_(autonomous_community) (177 words)

	Buber's Basque Page: A Short History of the Basque Country
		Basque speaking country, are making cultural history in that it is the language that has moulded and given the Basque people a sense of unity, a sense of being a nation.
		The Basques moved to and fro on each side of their land of the Pyrenees and fought against the armies of Suintila, Recesvinto, and Wamba in the eighth century when Tarik disembarked in 711 with 7,000 Berber soldiers in what is now Gibraltar, and defeated the Goths.
		Thus, the new political map of the Basque Country (the ultimate goal of this SHORT HISTORY) was established (excluding Navarre) in democratic Spain, with Carlos Garaikoetxea as President.
	www.buber.net /Basque/History/shorthist.html (4281 words)

	Basque Country (Spanish region)
		The region is bordered by the Bay of Biscay to the north and separated from the French part of the Basque Country cultural region by the Pyrenees.
		The militant Basque separatist group Euskadi ta Azkatasuna (ETA) is committed to the independence of the region from Spain, and has been responsible for many terrorist acts.
		Basque and Spanish are both official languages of the Basque Autonomous Community.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0101710.html (250 words)

	flag of Basque Country (Spain) flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de
		The dimensions of the flag were established by Decree of 19 October 1936 and modified by Decree of 24 October 1936, the proportion was 14:25.
		The Basque flag was created in 1894 by Sabino Arana (founder of Basque nationalism), and the name of the flag is Ikurriña, although the meaning of this word is "flag".
		In 1936 the Basque Autonomous Government (whose Lehendakari —president— was José Antonio Agirre) was created, with representation of all the democratic parties, and the Ikurriña was declared by law the Basque flag.
	www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/es-pv.html (1790 words)

	Basque Nationalist Movements (Spain)
		Pro-terrorist demonstrations —where everybody carrying a flag chooses the Basque flag— usually reach their climax with a similar sheet being briefly displayed, held from its upper corners by two individuals wearing hoods.
		It is not intended to be a flag, it is not used as a flag and it is not displayed as a flag.
		[During a recent vacation, I noticed that] in San Sebastián was commonly seen a mainly white flag with a fl map of the Basque region that was flown in support of an agitation for the transfer of ETA [a terrorist organization] prisoners from jails throughout Spain and France to prisons in the Basque country.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/es}pv.html (606 words)

	Euskadi.net
		he flag was designed to symbolise national unity; it was "the flag that would unite all the Basques, we of the present joining with future generations and our remotest forebears in a single embrace beneath the symbolic rays of the Sun and the Moon.
		The idea of the ikurriña as a symbol of the Basque Country doesn't actually refer to a specific geographical area; in the distant past, the superimposed crosses were in fact a Basque allegory of euski, meaning sun, which for the ancient Basques was the focal point of their lives.
		Five years later, on October 21, 1936, the Basque Government decreed that the ikurriña should be considered as the only flag of the Basque Country: "The flag shall be the one that represents Basque unity and which general usage, increasingly prevalent throughout the Basque territories, authorises as such a symbol …" (2)
	www.euskadi.net /r33-2695/es/contenidos/informacion/himo_ikurrina/en_461/simbolos_i.html (446 words)

	Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There are exceptions however: the Madrid Autonomous Community has a 7:11 flag, Castile and Leon a 76:99 flag, Castile-La Mancha a 1:2 flag and the Basque Country a 14:25 flag.
		Rank flags and the King's and Prince's Flags (guión or guidon, as it was originally intended to be borne by an officer on horseback) are all 1:1.
		During all salutes by cheering or by cannon, each insignia [rank flag or command pennant] should be lowered to half mast and fluttered when saluting one of equal or higher rank to the senior officer [aboard].
	www.z6.com /z6files/z6files/FOTW/flags/es.html (1925 words)

	A taste of Basque Country
		When Basques get together, there's also always a barbecue, and even now the succulent scent of lamb floats from the far end of the park, where a happy mix of festivalgoers and beret-wearing Basques are lining up to sample the grilled dishes.
		At the Basque Cultural Center, there'll be a dinner-dance, mass, barbecue, and musicians and dancers from the French Basque country.
		Granddaughters of Epi Inchausti, a famous Basque boardinghouse cook in Hailey, continue the family tradition in a fresh style with this new restaurant in a Boise suburb.
	www.sunset.com /sunset/Premium/Travel/2000/05-May/BasqueT0500/BasqueT0500.html (1247 words)

	Euskal Herria - Lower Division Cultural Website
		Three of the Basque Homeland’s seven historic territories, Álava, Vizcaya and Guipúzcoa, in the north of Spain, covering a total surface area of 7,234 square kilometres, are grouped together to form a political unit known as EUSKADI,or the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country.
		It was the Basques, not the Moors, as the Chanson de Roland relates, who cut the rear guard of Charlemagne's army to pieces at the Battle of Roncesvalles in AD 778.
		The Basques showed a fierce attachment to their autonomous status, and in Spain the state's attempts to encroach upon their local privileges prompted the Basques in the 1830s to support the cause of Don Carlos, the conservative pretender to the Spanish throne, with disastrous results.
	www.spanport.ucsb.edu /faculty/mcgovern/Countries/Basque_Country/basque_country.html (775 words)

	Coat-of-Arms (Basque Country, Spain) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With the arrival of the new regime in 1939, the emblem, along with the flag and the autonomy, were suppressed.
		This sentence was observed by the Basque government, and an Agreement of March 25th, 1986 modified the Arms, removing the Navarran chains leaving the fourth quarter plain red.
		The width of these figures shall be of 0.43 metres each for a flag of five metres by 2.80 metres, proportionally reducing or enlarging the measures according to the total size of the flag.
	flagspot.net /flags/es)pv.html (1662 words)

	Historical Flags (Basque Country, Spain) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Basque and my people, the Míkmaq, made contact with each other in 1372 AD, and I was wondering, if these Basques had been flying a flag, what flag it would have been.
		In 1200 the king of Castile had inherited the Lordship of Biscay and along the 14th century several cities in Alava and lordships in Guipuzcoa requested the protection of the Castilian crown to defend themselves better (for instance against English ambitions in the area).
		Basque vessels from these territories would only fly the banner-of-arms of Castile and Leon if they were royal vessels, belonged to the Castilian navy or had been in one way or another commissioned by the king (as was the case, for instance, with Columbus' ships).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/es-pv_hi.html (585 words)

	HOMELANDS: BASQUE COUNTRY / Basques in reflection / SPANISH PROVINCES REVEAL OLD AND NEW
		Intxausti is a Basque, and her language is the oldest and most enigmatic in all of Europe.
		Three of the four Spanish Basque provinces have gained a limited measure of autonomy since Franco's death, and signs everywhere are now in Basque, a language that to a nonspeaker looks like a Scrabble tray with lots of potential points but no word to play.
		The ETA has assassinated officials in the Basque country and bombed some police stations, but for the most part their sporadic attacks are carried out elsewhere in Spain.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/21/TRGDGE9EFG1.DTL (2227 words)

	France Monthly Newsletter - February 2005
		Of course, French Basques speak perfect French, but not mastering the Basque language as well as one’s parents or grandparents is, still today, often considered breaking the chain of tradition and a disability.
		The Basque Country has a definite identity, yet is made up of 4 provinces in Spain and 3 in France.
		The charm and character of the Basque Country comes not only from the beauty of its magnificent landscapes and its lovely climate, but also from the strong and living culture that its people are so proud of, even if modern-day life sometimes takes them away from it.
	www.francemonthly.com /n/0205/newsletter.html (2118 words)

	Flags of the World - Basque
		The Basque flag is the regional flag of the Autonomous Region of Euskadi.
		It is flown subordinate to the Spanish flag.
		The red represents the blood shed by the Basques in their fight for independence, the white for the Catholic faith and the green is for the Oak of Guernica.
	www.anyflag.com /country/basque.php (133 words)

	Euzkadi - Basque Country
		The Basques are very closely in touch with the moon and its cycles, and this figure appears in numerous myths, rites and legends.
		This is Beigorri, guardian of the houses of Mari, the principal spirit or goddess of Basque mythology.
		In 1936, the Basque Autonomous Government was created (it's Lehendakari (president) was Jose Antonio Agirre) with representation of all the democratic parties, and the ikurrina was declared, by law, the Basque flag.
	dametzdesign.com /euzkadi.html (6816 words)

	Marcos to Garzon and ETA - The Basque Country: Paths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos shall also address Spanish and Basque civil society, asking them to mobilize for the "An Opportunity For the Word" campaign, whose purpose is to pressure the Spanish government and the ETA to create, throughout the entire Iberian peninsula, suitable conditions for the meeting.
		We believe that the struggle of the Basque people for their sovereignty is just and legitimate, but neither that noble cause, nor any other, is justification for the sacrifice of civilian lives.
		I also know that that the thousands of Basques who have been executed, tortured and disappeared by the State forces are not included among the calculations of dead and wounded made by the Spanish government.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/mexico/ezln/2002/marcos/basqueDEC.html (3268 words)

	Basque Country (cultural region) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cultural homeland of the Basque people in the western Pyrenees, divided by the Franco-Spanish border, and covering an area of 20,742 sq km/8,009 sq mi.
		The Spanish Basque Country (País Vasco) is an autonomous community of central northern Spain; it has a much stronger separatist movement than the French Basque Country to the north.
		The French Basque Country (Pays Basque) is the area occupied by Basques in the département of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, made up of the small districts of Soule and Labourd (which joined France in 1451) and Lower Navarre (annexed in 1620 by Louis XIII).
	www.currentbun.net /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0027159.html (195 words)

	Basque Country (Spain) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The flag without coat of arms is intended for civil use, the other one for government use.
		In 1936 the Basque Autonomous Government (whose Lehendakari -president- was José Antonio Agirre) was created, with representation of all the democratic parties, and the Ikurriña was declared by law the Basque flag.
		This COA shows not only the arms of the three provinces composing the current Basque Country proper (Spanish autonomous region), but also those of Navarre, which is mostly in other Spanish autonomous region (Comunidad Foral de Navarra) and has a smaller part in France (Lower Navarre).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/es-euska.html (2331 words)

	Basque Country Tourism
		The festival begins on January 20 at 00:00 hours with the raising of the flag to the sound of the massed drums of Gaztelubide, in the old Town Hall, today the Municipal Library which stands on the Plaza Constitución.
		For 24 hours, the city is a fiesta of drums and barrels and the hymns of Sarriegui can be heard all around the city.
		At 24:00 hours the drummers of the Unión Artesana lower the flag to bring the festival to a close.
	www.basquecountry-tourism.com /cultf_1san.php (165 words)

	The Nationalism Project: Spain & Basque Nationalism LInks
		The Institute of Basque Studies, London: Founded in 1998, the IBS promotes and encourages research on Basque language and culture, and facilitates research material and publications on the area for educational purposes.
		Elite Pelote Basque: Pelote is an important national sport in the Basque country.
		Basque Red Net: A Marxist site concerned with the conflict between Spain and the Basque people, as well as class war.
	www.nationalismproject.org /links/spain.html (448 words)

	Flag Of Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the line of flags the American Flag is in the wrong position by not being used in the top, front or center position--all violations.
		The American Flag is not to be used on another banner (state flag) or under the state seal; this position indicates the state is superior to the American Flag.
		Flag of Spain Printout/Quiz Quiz Answers EnchantedLearning.com Flag of Spain Maps Flags The Spanish flag is a red and yellow horizontal triband (the yellow stripe is in the middle, and is twice as...
	www.aboutbarcelona.org /flagofspain (1301 words)

	Flag Grenadines St Vincent, Flag Grenadines St Vincent info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		Refrain The National Flag: The flag of St. Vincent and the Grenadines was officially adopted on October 12, 1985.
	www.gostvincent.info /FlagGrenadinesStVincent (1071 words)

	Spain
		Basque separatists committed hundreds of terrorist bombings and kidnappings that continue to the present.
		In Aug. 2002, Batasuna, the political wing of the Basque terrorist organization ETA, was banned.
		The country's relative prosperity and the prime minister's tough stance against the ETA were thought to be responsible for the strong showing.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107987.html (1549 words)

	Learn more about Spain in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The government intends to make further progress in changing labour laws and reforming pension schemes, which are key to the sustainability of both Spain's internal economic advances and its competitiveness in a single currency area.
		Basque (euskara) in Basque Country (Euskadi), and parts of Navarre.
		Countries acceding to membership on May 1, 2004:
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/sp/spain.html (1443 words)

	Eusko Legebiltzarra - Parlamento Vasco - Getting around - Statute of Autonomy - Preliminary title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Basque People or «Euskal-Herria», as an expression of their nationality and in order to accede to self-government, constitute an Autonomous Community within the Spanish State under the name of «Euskadi» or the Basque Country, in accordance with the Constitution and with this Statute, which lays down its basic institutional rules.
		Each of the Historic Territories which make up the Basque Country may, within the framework of the same, preserve or, where appropriate, re-establish and bring up to date their organization and such institutions as are exclusively concerned with self-government.
		The designation of the seat of the common institutions of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country shall be effected through a Law of the Basque Parliament and shall lie within the territory of the Autonomous Community.
	parlamento.euskadi.net /htmldocsnet_DIS/i_estatuto_0_0.html (707 words)

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