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Encyclopedia > Basque autonomous community


Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa /
Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco
image:ccaa-basque.png
Capital Vitoria-Gasteiz
Official languages Basque and Spanish
Area


 - total


 - % of Spain
Ranked 14th


7 234 km²


1,4%
Population


 - Total (2003)
 - % of Spain


 - Density
Ranked 7th


2 108 281
5,0%


291,44/km²
Demonym


 - English
 - Basque


 - Spanish


Basque
euskal herritar, euskaldun
vasco/a, vascongado/a

Statute of Autonomy December 22, 1979
ISO 3166-2 PV

Parliamentary
representation


 Congress seats
 Senate seats

 

19

3
President Juan José Ibarretxe Markuartu (PNV)
Eusko Jaurlaritza/Gobierno Vasco (http://www.euskadi.net)

Basque Country (Basque Euskadi, Spanish País Vasco) is an autonomous community of Spain whose capital is Vitoria (Basque Gasteiz). It is part of the larger Basque native lands, which are also called the “Basque Country.”


The following Spanish provinces make up Basque Country:

Political Spain in 1854, after the first War
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Political Spain in 1854, after the first Carlist War

Before the Spanish Constitution of 1978 and its system of autonomous communities, these three provinces were known in Spanish as the Provincias Vascongadas, a term still used by some nostalgics of the Franco era and by independentists who despise the current autonomy and reserve "Basque Country" for the union of the seven territories.


External link

  • Images of Euskadi (http://www.travel-images.com/euskadi.html) - photos of the Basque Country






  Results from FactBites:
 
12. Political autonomy and conflict resolution: The Basque case (5415 words)
Historically, Basque nationalism has always tended to be projected as a community movement endeavouring to respond to the Basques as a whole, aiming to establish itself as the only legitimate representative of the Basque community.
Basque society is politically as well as culturally split into two broad sectors; the nationalist sector, which represents 65 per cent of the votes, and the non nationalist sector, with 35 per cent.
Article 2 configures the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country as an aggregate of the provinces of Alava, Guipúzcoa, and Biscay, as well as Navarre, in case the latter should decide to be incorporated in accordance with the procedure established by the Constitution.
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