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Basque Fact of the Week, Euskadi

Basque Fact of the Week: The Basque City of Eibar

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When I lived in the Basque Country, feebly trying to learn Euskara, I spent a lot of time in Ermua, Bizkaia, where my aunt and her family lives. Just across the border, in Gipuzkoa, lies Eibar. As a relatively young kid, I never gave Eibar much thought — it was just a town that the […]

Basque Fact of the Week, History

Basque Fact of the Week: The Prince of Wales Nearly Became the Lord of Bizkaia

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Looking back at the history of Europe, it is amazing how what we view today as solid political borders and national identities often grew out of random happenstance. If Joan of England had made it to Castile to wed Peter the Cruel, instead of succumbing to the Black Death at the age of fourteen, how […]