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Rank Name Population (2018) [1] 1 Bilbao: 345,821 2 Vitoria-Gasteiz: 249,176 3 San Sebastián: 186,665 4 Barakaldo: 100,435 5 Getxo: 78,276 6 Irun: 61,983 7 Portugalete
The Basque Country (Basque: Euskal Herria; Spanish: País Vasco; French: Pays basque) is the name given to the home of the Basque people. [1] The Basque Country is located in the western Pyrenees, straddling the border between France and Spain on the coast of the Bay of Biscay.
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The Basques (Basque: Euskaldunak) are an indigenous ethno-linguistic group mainly inhabiting the Basque Country (adjacent areas of Spain and France).Their history is therefore interconnected with Spanish and French history and also with the history of many other past and present countries, particularly in Europe and the Americas, where a large number of their descendants keep attached to their ...
Events in the year 1881 in Spain. Incumbents. Monarch: Alfonso XII [1]
The Ebro is the largest river which crosses the Basque Country. It is 910 km long, and flows along the southern boundary of the Basque Country before it joins the Mediterranean sea. On its way east, the Ebro harvests the water of a string of tributaries, such as Zadorra, Baias, Ega and Aragon. Aragon's course is the longest, at 192 km.
Basque Country (autonomous community) (Basque: Euskadi; Spanish: País Vasco, French: Pays Basque), also called Euskadi, is an autonomous community in Spain (shown in pink on the map) Southern Basque Country (Hego Euskal Herria or Hegoalde), the Basque provinces in Spain i.e. the autonomous community of the Basque Country plus the Foral ...
The only way out the Navarrese found was an increased trade with France, which in turn spurred the importation of bourgeois, modern ideas. However, the progressive, enlightened bourgeois circles strong in Pamplona—and other Basque towns and cities like Donostia—were eventually quelled during the above wars.