The Basque Country ( Euskal Herria )

History of:
The Basque Country ( Euskal Herria )
and
Euskadi Ta Askatasuna ( ETA )
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[MrFrimuraren]

Thanks for the info "lad"

[blunt1984]

@MrFrimuraren You are most welcome.

[MrFrimuraren]

Don,t forget that the chief ideologyst of the terrorist organization ETA was Sabino Arana,a well known racist and basque supremacist.

Is the basque cause really justified

[blunt1984]

@MrFrimuraren Sabino Arana was a racist and Basque supremacist, but he died in 1903 and ETA wasn't formed until 1959. He was the founder of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), but ETA took a far different stance regarding race.

ETA's ideology is more of a leftist version of Basque nationalism, explained in Federico Krutwig's 1963 book Vasconia. Krutwig's vision was anti-religious and based upon language and culture rather than race.

[joco3k]

Thanks anyway blunt1984.

[blunt1984]

@joco3k You're most welcome.

[Mujangga]

The U.S. considers E.T.A. to be a "terrorist organization"... I seem to remember a certain group of people in 1776 who took up arms and used violence to achieve self-determination...

Freedom for Euskadi!

[blunt1984]

@OTRACUENTAPERRA First of all the fight for freedom of the Basque Country has nothing to do with "Supremacy" as you put it.

The fight is so the Basque people can have their own independent homeland (as is same for the Catalonia and Galicia regions which also want to separate from Spain) not because they think they are "better" than the Spanish people.

Second, in 2011 ETA declared a "permanent, general and verifiable" ceasefire with the expressed aim of ending its campaign.

[Edubbplate]

I hope the Basque people gain independence. From Texas, we want freedom too.

[SanchoElMayor]

Renteria is a Basque surname comes from a city Errenteria (province of Guipuzcoa). Moya is a surname of Catalonia and Majorca.

[joco3k]

Thanks troublemakerxd. That helps a lot. Ill continue to research.

[TrOuBleMaKeRxD]

@joco3k Renteria sounds like it (: but in Basque its spelled Errenteria, I think its more spanish spelled.