Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When Spain’s dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco died in 1975, Catalonia and the Basque Country had good reason ...

The language families of Europe fall into a few broad categories. There are the Indo-European languages, which include the Romance, Germanic, Slavic and Celtic subgroups, along with Greek and Albanian ...

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Singing a long-forbidden song, a knot of youths surged into Pamplona’s Plaza Mayor one day last week and, with a lusty cheer, sent two homemade rockets sizzling into the sky. While police ...

Within a week of the disbandment in early May of the separatist terrorist group Eta, the Basque Country's parliament started debating proposals for a revision of the region's relationship with Madrid.

1 The Basques form a small, stateless nation of three million people, whose seven historical territories cover more than 20,000sq… 1 The Basques form a small, stateless nation of three million people, ...

WITH THEIR unique language, unrelated to all other European tongues, the continent’s oldest cave paintings, and their seafaring, gastronomic and choral traditions, the Basques have long had a strong ...

There is a trend to consider the gene pool of the Basques as a ‘living fossil’ of the earliest modern humans that colonized Europe. To investigate this assumption, we have typed 45 binary markers and ...

An international team of geneticists may now have solved the riddle, delving deep into DNA history to find they descended from early farmers who mixed with local hunter-gatherers before becoming ...

Two men saw a tree trunk with a "tronza" (traditional Basque saw) during a rural sports championship DNA from ancient remains seems to have solved the puzzle of one of Europe's most enigmatic people: ...

In late April, one of the world's strangest laws was quietly revoked. Authorities in Iceland's Westfjords district, the scenic northwestern corner of the Scandinavian island nation, repealed a ...

Whenever there are discussions about the international superpowers in education it's not long before you hear about Shanghai, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong or Finland. And then there are the rapid ...