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Basque Proverb of the Week

Basque Proverb of the Week: Proverb #25

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Arrotz-herri, otso-herri. A foreign land is a land of wolves.

Basque Fact of the Week, Diaspora

Basque Fact of the Week: Zortziak Bat International Symposium on the Basque Diaspora and Cultural Expressions

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The Basque diaspora – those Basques that have found themselves for a multitude of reasons living and building lives outside of the Basque Country – have made significant contributions to the continued health and prosperity of Basque culture. Inspired by the motto Zazpiak Bat – the seven are one – the phrase Zortziak Bat has […]

Basque Proverb of the Week

Basque Proverb of the Week: Proverb #24

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Arranoak lumak behar, txepetxak ere bai. The eagle needs feathers, and the wren does too.

Basque Fact of the Week, Music

Basque Fact of the Week: The Folk Band Oskorri

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I’ve written about how, when I returned from my year in the Basque Country, I sort of shocked my dad by playing some Basque punk. However, I also came back with some folk music, including Oskorri. This, my dad could get in to. When he left the Basque Country, they didn’t have recordings of all […]

Basque Proverb of the Week

Basque Proverb of the Week: Proverb #23

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Arian, arian, zehetzen da burnia. Working and working at it, iron can be pulverized.

Basque Fact of the Week, People

Basque Fact of the Week: Basque Intellectual Joxe Azurmendi

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While the Basque Country has seemingly punched above its weight in terms of its contributions to history, its contributions to philosophy are perhaps less well known. On July 1, the Basque Country lost one of its heavyweights. Joxe Azurmendi was one of the intellectual leaders of the modern Basque Country. It is impossible to do […]

Basque Proverb of the Week

Basque Proverb of the Week: Proverb #22

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Ardiak beeka egonik, ez du jaten belarrik. A bleating sheep eats no grass.

Basque Fact of the Week, Euskadi

Basque Fact of the Week: The Industrial Town of Ermua

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The three Basque cities I’ve spent the most time in are Donostia, Munitibar, and Ermua. My dad’s sister and her family settled in Ermua as that is where the job was – her husband worked for the knife company Aitor until he retired. Ermua maybe doesn’t have the charm of the coastal cities, but it […]