Basque
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Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.
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An autonomous community in Northern Spain which also extends into Southern France (where it is known as Pays Basque). Many Basques consider themselves to be a separate people from the French and the Spanish.
The Basques have their own language called Euskera and use it in combination with Spanish or French (depending on which region of the Basque country they are from) in their everyday dialect. The Basques' favourite sports are cycling, football and their own 'Basque sports', rugby is also extremely popular in the French region of the Basque country. Basque chefs are famous for their cooking abilities and Basque seafood dishes are renowned my many throughout the world.
Many Basques wish for there to be self determination for the Basque country, which means that they want there to be a vote which decides whether they can form their own country or not. However this is unlikely to happen because it would require both the Spanish and French governments to cooperate in handing territory over to the Basques. The participating governments, particularly in Spain, would also risk losing popularity amongst the wider national community if they were to do this. -
Refers to the language, culture, and/or traditional homeland of the Basque people, centered in a region of Northern Spain and South-Western France.
Considered to be Europe's oldest inhabitants, their language, Euskara, is an anomoly - not related to any other known language. It is widely renowned to be the hardest language on Earth. Typical Basque costume includes the compuslory beret (txapela) for men, with a red neckerchief. Basques are usually fair-skinned and have black hair, but blue eyes sometimes.
They are widely known in the United States as shepherds. The largest concentrated Basque diaspora population in the US is in Boise, Idaho, followed by Reno, Nevada.
Traditional activites include improvised singing competitions (bertsolariak), and strong -
Basque country, its a comunity part of Spain.
Its inhabitated by the basques or as they call itself, euskaldunes.
They claim to be part of an ancient kingdom formed by the actual Navarra(another community of Spain) and some french lands in the Pirineos.
Some independentist groups formed in the Francisco's Franco dictatorship the terrorist organitation called ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, Euskadi and freedom) that has killed nearby a thousand people.
In Basque country there are two official languajes, Spanish(Castellano) and Basque(Euskara).
The principal production in the basque country is the industry, fish and cow meat. -
its a region in spain. just like glacians, castilians, and catalans, they dun like the spanish government. it is also a very unique langauge. it is unique because there are no roots of the language to neother language in the world. not even ancient greek or latin. some say that it was the decent of the langauge of cavemen.
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Basques (Basque: Euskaldunak) as an ethnic group, primarily inhabit an area traditionally known as the Basque Country (Basque: Euskal Herria), a region that is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay and straddles parts of north-central Spain and south-western Gaul.
It is unknown where the Basques come from, their Paleolithic European culture and language is more ancient than that of any other European culture. -
Noun, British: A corset with elastic suspenders to attach [stockings] usually boned (like the woman will be later in the evening, hopefully)
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a word that mama croc and mama lasagna created
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a different kind of celt/Irish
being the most culturally, genetically related. -
The Basque people are very interesting and intelligent people. They are smart because they keep to themselves and resent smelly French and gay Spainards. They formed [ETA] the Euskadi ta Askatana(sorry to any basque on the spelling) which is the group who fight for the land. There might be a famous Basque celebrity, Carlos Alzaraqui of Reno 911! The name sounds Basque. The Gipsy Kings also sometimes sing in Basque.
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Another name for Mexican
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Some stupid faggots that live in Northern Spain and Southwest France. Im a [Cajun] from Louisiana state and [shudder] to think that I have Basque ancestry, this people are a total embarrassment and are demeaning as fuck to me. Kill yourselves you communist fuckers. They wont [bugger off] and leave the Spanish people alone. They are Spanish and always will be. deal with it or commit suicide you faggots (Basques). so will the Portuguese, fuck the Portuguese. take your Spain bashing and shove it up your fucking asses
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tight-fitting underwear for women that covers the top part of the body and provides support for the breasts
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