There are regional rail services along the Basque coast, to Pau and through the Landes to Dax and Bordeaux.

Sometimes, especially in northern Spain, they are also called pinchos ( pintxos in Basque ) in Asturias, in Navarre, in La Rioja ( Spain ), the Basque Country, Cantabria and in some provinces, such as Salamanca, because many of them have a pincho or toothpick through them.

Catalonia, the Basque Country, and Galicia were designated " historic nationalities " and granted autonomy through a rapid and simplified process.

While the Basque Country was granted autonomy through the rapid process granted to the " nationalities ", it also retained the economic and fiscal autonomy that it had enjoyed through the fueros or charters.

* Catalonia, the Basque Country and Galicia — as " historical nationalities "— were granted autonomy through a fast and simplified process ;

During the Germanic invasions of 409 and later as a result of Rechiar ´ s ravaging, Pamplona went through much disruption and destruction, starting a cycle of general decline along with other towns across the Basque territory but managing to keep some sort of urban life.

His second in command, the Basque Juan Sebastián Elcano, from Getaria, completed the journey back through the Indian Ocean and round the Cape of Good Hope to Spain in 1522.

The Romans called this territory Aquitania, either from the Latin word aqua ( meaning " water "), in reference to the many rivers flowing from the Pyrenees through the area, or from the name of the Aquitanian Ausci tribe ( whose name seems related to the Basque root eusk-meaning " Basque "), in which case Aquitania would mean " land of the Ausci ".

The club is known for its cantera policy of bringing young Basque players through the ranks, as well as recruiting top Basque players from other clubs ( like Joseba Etxeberria or Javi Martínez ).

Furthermore, on their way north through Roncevaux an ambush attempt took place that ended in stalemate, due to the greater precautions taken by the Franks, i. e. Basque women and children taken as hostages.

One way for the introduction of Gascon influence into Basque came about through language contact in bordering areas of the Northern Basque Country, acting as adstrate.

; Jingo: OED finds an etymology from Basque Jainko (" God ") through Gascon possible but not proven.

The great majority of the narrow-gauge lines still operated by FEVE are located along or near Spain's Atlantic Ocean and Bay of Biscay coastline, which stretches from Galicia in the northwest, through Asturias and Cantabria to the Basque Country ( with a branch extending into Castile and León ).

However, in 1937, roughly halfway through the war, Basque troops, then under control of the Autonomous Basque Government surrendered in an action brokered by the Basque church and the Vatican in Santoña to the Italian allies of General Franco on condition that the Basque heavy industry and economy was left untouched.

Inspired by movements like those of Castro in Cuba and Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, the group aimed to establish an independent socialist Basque country through violence and extortion.

His father was José Luis Fox Pont, a Mexican citizen and his mother Mercedes Quesada Etxaide, was Basque from San Sebastian, Gipuzkoa, Spain.

His mother, Marie Delouart, was of Basque descent and grew up in Madrid, Spain, while his father, Joseph Ravel, was a Swiss inventor and industrialist from French Haute-Savoie.

Her son, Williams ' father, married a Puerto Rican woman of French Basque and Dutch Jewish descent.

His mother, Felisa Ortega, is from Bilbao, Basque country and his father, writer and journalist Ramón Chao, is from Vilalba, Galicia.

They recognized thus, themselves, as " Basques " from Castile, as the former " Basque " Lords of Biscay had done in the Castilian kingdom, whereby a López de Haro was succeeded by his eldest son named however as a Díaz de Haro and then, the following Lord of Biscay, being described again as a López de Haro in spite of his father being known, politically speaking, as a " Díaz de Haro " and so on and on for some 3 centuries or so, alternating the family name, a genealogical fact ignored today by many Basque, and Castilian, people

Oesterheld was born in Buenos Aires to a German father and a Basque mother.

He was born in Bayonne, France, where his father, Dominique Cabarrus Fourcade was a merchant and shipbuilder, linked to a saga of Basque sea-captains, whalers and adventurers, who settled in Capbreton ( a town near Bayonne ), coming from the Navarre region of Spain.

Sometimes said to be the next Nicolo Machiavelli, he was born in Limoges where his father Arnaud de Silhouette ( from Biarritz, the modern Standard Basque form of the name would be Zuloeta ) was sent.

His father was from a Portuguese background, his mother Basque.

Michael Murphy was born in 1930 to an Irish father and Basque mother in Salinas, California.

Urquidez was born in Los Angeles County, California, the son of a wrestling mother and a boxing father, who was born in Granada, Nicaragua and is descended from Basque Spaniards and Blackfoot Amerindians.

Arriaga's father was a rich merchant in the city, only son, and property-owner, whose heritage traced his lineage to the Fleming Joss van Aard, one of the original settlers of the island of Faial ( of the male line to a Basque family of small nobility ) and whose second cousin was Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo, 1st Marquess of Sá da Bandeira.

His father Bartolomé Sarmiento was born in Pontevedra and his mother María Gamboa was born in Bilbao, Basque Country.

Blanco was born in Caracas to a Venezuelan father and a Basque mother, but was raised in Biarritz, France.

His book Sweet Promised Land, which told the story of his father returning to his Basque homeland after almost 50 years in the American West, was internationally acclaimed and won several literary awards.

His father, Juan López de Anchieta, was a landowner from Urrestilla, in the Basque Country, who had escaped in 1525 to Tenerife after participating in a failed rebellion against the King, Charles V. His mother, Mencia Díaz de Clavijo y Llarena, was a descendant of the conquerors of Tenerife, and came from a Jewish family.

Narciso López was a born in Caracas, Venezuela to a wealthy merchant family of Basque origin ; his father was Pedro Manuel Lopez and his mother was Ana Paula de Oriola ( sometimes spelt Urriola ).

He also included a reference to his Basque mother and German father in a scene in which a Basque farmer rescues a stranded German paratrooper.

His father was one of the few Basque men who would not join the ETA because it was violent.

For example, the medieval Basque custom in which the father, during or immediately after the birth of a child, took to bed, complained of having labour pains, and was accorded the treatment usually shown women during pregnancy or after childbirth.

His family were wealthy landowners who cultivated coffee ; his father was of Basque and his mother of Portuguese descent.

Antoine Thomson d ' Abbadie d ' Arrast ( January 3, 1810 – March 19, 1897 ) was an Irish-French and Basque explorer, geographer, ethnologue, linguist and astronomer notable for his travels in Ethiopia during the first half of the 19th century.

A speaker of both Souletin and Lapurdian, a resident of Lapurdi, Abbadie considered himself a Basque from Soule.

Abbadie gave his domain the name Abbadia, which is the name still used in Basque.

Zazpiak Bat is a motto attributed to Basque explorer Antoine-Thomson d ' Abbadie in the nineteenth century, from the Basque words zazpiak meaning ' the seven ' and bat meaning ' one ', translates as " the seven one " and refers to the seven Basque Country traditional provinces.

Arnaud-Michel d ' Abbadie ( 24 July 1815 – 8 November 1893 ) was a French and Basque geographer, and along with his older brother Antoine-Thomson d ' Abbadie, was notable for his travels in Ethiopia.