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Basques have been living in Northern Nevada for over a century and form a population of several thousand. Basque immigrants first came in the mid-1800s during the Gold rush. The Basques have also been closely-tied to sheep herding in Nevada and neighboring states. The Basque-American culture is especially prominent in the town of Winnemucca.
Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
The Basque Diaspora (Basque Studies Program, University of Nevada, Reno). Etulain, Richard W., and Jeronima Echeverria, eds. Portraits of Basques in the New World (U of Nevada Press, 1999). Lasagabaster, David. "Basque diaspora in the USA and language maintenance." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 29.1 (2008): 66–90. online
Reno, Nevada, where the Center for Basque Studies and the Basque Studies Library are located at the University of Nevada, is another significant nucleus of Basque population. Elko, Nevada, sponsors an annual Basque festival that celebrates the dance, cuisine and cultures of the Basque peoples of Spanish, French and Mexican nationalities who ...
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Kansas: Sunflower State. ... It put Virginia City on the map, helping usher Nevada into the Union in 1964—and perhaps establish its reputation as the state people go to seek thrills and fortune.
Arizona Either from árida zona, meaning "Arid Zone", or from a Spanish word of Basque origin meaning "The Good Oak" California (from the name of a fictional island country in Las sergas de Esplandián, a popular Spanish chivalric romance by Garci Rodríguez de Mon talvo) Colorado (meaning "red [colored]", "ruddy" or "colored" in masculine form.
An enlargeable map of the state of Kansas. Names Common name: Kansas. Pronunciation: / ˈ k æ n z ə s / ⓘ Official name: State of Kansas. Abbreviations and name codes Postal symbol: KS; ISO 3166-2 code: US-KS; Internet second-level domain: .ks.us; Nicknames America's Bread Basket; Sunflower State; Wheat State (previously used on license ...