{"id":536,"date":"2011-01-03T03:48:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T03:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=536"},"modified":"2011-01-03T03:48:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T03:48:53","slug":"coats-of-arms-of-euskal-herria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2011\/01\/03\/coats-of-arms-of-euskal-herria\/","title":{"rendered":"Coats-of-arms of Euskal Herria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/120px-Escudo_de_Munitibar-Arbatzegi_Gerrikaitz.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-537 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"120px-Escudo_de_Munitibar-Arbatzegi_Gerrikaitz\" src=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/120px-Escudo_de_Munitibar-Arbatzegi_Gerrikaitz.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>A while back I found an awesome book that showed the coats-of-arms of most of the towns and villages of Bizkaia. \u00a0Each town was given a different page, with a drawing of the escudo and some information about the town. I&#8217;d always hoped to find something similar for the other provinces, but was never able to. \u00a0These days, though, if it&#8217;s in a book, it&#8217;s very likely to be online as well. \u00a0Thus, it should come as no surprise that there are lists of the municipalities of the various provinces and their heraldry, and maybe the best site for this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They have different sections for the coats-of-arms of the towns of <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Coats_of_arms_of_municipalities_of_Biscay\">Bizkaia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Coats_of_arms_of_municipalities_of_Gipuzkoa\">Gipuzkoa<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Coats_of_arms_of_municipalities_of_\u00c1lava-Araba\">Araba<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Coats_of_arms_of_municipalities_of_Navarre\">Nafarroa<\/a>, and, lumped together with other provinces of the Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es-Atlantiques, <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Coats_of_arms_of_cities_in_Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es-Atlantiques\">Iparralde<\/a> &#8212; the French Basque Country.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine these aren&#8217;t complete, but they do give a very nice visual display of the towns and villages of the Basque Country. \u00a0I think it would be great to also have something about the origins of each individual coat-of-arms, but that is asking a lot.<\/p>\n<p>There are versions of these on the Spanish version of Wikipedia as well, which do give more detail, such as the actual description of the coat-of-arms. \u00a0For example, see <a href=\"http:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Her\u00e1ldica_municipal_de_Vizcaya\">this page for Bizkaia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Her\u00e1ldica_municipal_de_Navarra\">this one for Nafarroa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I found an awesome book that showed the coats-of-arms of most of the towns and villages of Bizkaia. \u00a0Each town was given a different page, with a drawing of the escudo and some information about the town. 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