Basques

The Spanish state over recent months has intensified its campaign against Basque solidarity with the political prisoners but seems to have succeeded only in raising the profile of the prisoners and in further alienating Basques from the Spanish state.

Indymedia Ireland Cormac Mac Gall 2009

Among the outstanding characteristics of the Basques are their independent spirit, love of freedom, and the respect for individual liberty.

Creations In Silver - By Dona Eva Martinez 2006

Among the outstanding characteristics of the Basques are their independent spirit, love of freedom, and the respect for individual liberty.

Creations In Silver - By Dona Eva Martinez 2006

Matilda, the Basques are a nationality of people living in 7 provinces of Northern Spain and Southern France.

St. Ignacio's Nachos Matilda 2008

He had heard of a Pictish people called Basques, who in the crags of the Pyrenees called themselves an unconquered race; but he knew that they had paid tribute for centuries to the ancestors of the Gaels, before these Celtic conquerors abandoned their mountain-realm and set sail for Ireland.

Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

The Basques are a picturesque and lovable people, and they have kept their characteristics and customs bright and shining through many centuries of change round about them.

The Automobilist Abroad

The Basques were the unyielding basis of all the advance.

Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" Hilaire Belloc 1911

The dinner hour calls the Basques now to the houses or to the inns, and, under the light, somewhat gloomy, of the noon sun, the village seems deserted.

Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886

While marching through the narrow pass of Roncesvalles (ron-thes-val'-yes), among the Pyrenees, Roland's division was attacked by a tribe called the Basques (basks), who lived on the mountain slopes of the neighboring region.

Famous Men of the Middle Ages Addison B. Poland 1885

A few amongst them, however, who affect some degree of learning, contend, that it is neither more nor less than a dialect of the Phoenician, and, that the Basques are the descendants of a

The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842