The Basque are an ethnic group of the western Pyrenees region spanning northern Spain and southwestern France, distinguished above all by Euskara (Basque), a language isolate with no established relationship to any other language family, whose survival predates the arrival of Indo-European languages in Western Europe. The Basque Autonomous Community and Navarre in Spain hold significant devolved political and fiscal autonomy, achieved in part through a documented and, for a substantial period, violent nationalist movement, most notably the armed group ETA, active from 1959 until its declared 2018 dissolution following a 2011 ceasefire. Traditional Basque social and legal custom (fueros) historically included distinctive inheritance and land-tenure practices, and Basque rural sport (including pelota and rural strength competitions) remains a well-documented and actively practiced element of communal identity. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Group TypeSourced to the subject's own account Typical RegionSourced to the subject's own accountWestern Europe (the Basque Country spanning northern Spain and southwestern France) 1 Population EstimateSourced to the subject's own accountapproximately 3 million in the Basque Country, with a further diaspora, notably in the Americas 1 Primary LanguageSourced to the subject's own accountBasque (Euskara), a language isolate unrelated to any other known living language 1 Subsistence ModeSourced to the subject's own accountHistorically mixed mountain agriculture, sheep pastoralism and, along the coast, a long-documented fishing and whaling tradition (Basque fishermen are documented reaching the Grand Banks of Newfoundland by at least the sixteenth century). 1 Connections
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The traditional Basque etxe household is a documented stem-family system in which a single designated heir inherits the family homestead intact.
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1. Wikipedia: Basque people
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Basques are a Southwestern European ethnic group, characterised by the Basque language, a common culture, shared genetic ancestry to the ancient Vascones and Aquitanians, and are considered among the last remaining direct descendants of Neolithic European populations in Europe.
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