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Basque Fact of the Week, Diaspora

Basque Fact of the Week: Winnemucca, Nevada, the Most Basque Town in the United States

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The United States has a thriving Basque community, driven primarily, though not exclusively, by many years of immigration to the US West. California is the state that the most Basques call home while Boise, Idaho, is the city with the largest number of Basques. However, it is tiny Winnemucca in northern Nevada – with only […]

Fighting Basques

Fighting Basques: Basque Participation in the Resistance and Liberation of the Philippines (1942-1945)

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This article originally appeared in Spanish at El Diario on December 11, 2019. After the surrender of the US armed forces on May 6, 1942, in Corregidor, Japan was free to extend its military occupation throughout the Philippine archipelago. The Philippines was the only Pacific country with a solid and consolidated Basque and Navarrese community […]