it was not until the 20th century that serious efforts were made to create an official university for the Basque people. The first of these opened its doors in Bilbao in 1938, largely thanks to ...

The Center for Basque Studies houses the Jon Bilbao Basque Library – one of the world’s largest collections of Basque-related materials, currently at 55,000 volumes. The Center for Basque Studies ...

The community’s biggest event, the Jaialdi International Basque Festival occurs every five years, which Gavica said drew 30,000-40,000 people over five days in 2015. Groups come from the Basque ...

Edurne Arostegui is a graduate student at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) since 2012 and at the Center for Basque Studies since 2016, currently working on her doctoral studies in ...

The separatists in the Spanish Basque Country asked for "forgiveness" for killing people without "a direct participation in the conflict". Victims' groups accused Eta of seeking to justify its use ...

Tens of thousands of people in the autonomous Basque country of northern Spain have formed a human chain to push for greater autonomy. The organisers say it reached 202km (125 miles) and linked ...

According to several museumgoers the boarding house drove the history home as they walked through the living quarters of first-generation Basque people. After visiting the museum, many reviewers ...