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Biscay and each
The laws of Biscay continued to be drawn up under this tree until 1876, with each town and village in the province sending two representatives to the sessions, known as General Assemblies.
Currently, Biscay is divided into seven comarcas or regions, each one with its own capital city, subdivisions and municipalities.
The mistral takes place each time there is an anticyclone, or area of high pressure, in the Bay of Biscay, and an area of low pressure around the Gulf of Genoa.
The English awarded each side what they actually controlled militarily at the time: to Navarre, Alava, Biscay and Guipuscoa ; to Castile, La Rioja and the other western lands.
The two ships lost each other shortly after setting sail in a storm out from the Bay of Biscay and did not meet up again until nearly two years later in the Pacific.

Biscay and administrative
The Basque Autonomous Community is an administrative entity within the binational ethnographic Basque Country incorporating the traditional Spanish provinces of Biscay, Gipuzkoa, and Álava, which retain their existence as politico-administrative divisions.
The Basque Government, an autonomous regional administrative body formed by Basque nationalists and leftists, sought to defend Biscay and parts of Guipuzcoa with its own light Basque Army.

Biscay and known
* The city of Biscay is home to the Biscay Municipal Liquor store, more commonly known as the " Biscay Bar "; it is perhaps the largest bar and liquor store within over.
Roman geographers identified two tribes in the territory now known as Biscay: the Caristii and Autrigones.
Euskotren Trena, formerly known just as Euskotren is a commuter, Inter-city and Urban transit train operating company that operates local and inter-city passenger services in the provinces of Biscay and Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country.
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
On 30 July Walker's group encountered a group of three U-boats on the surface ( two were vital type XIV replenishment boats known as " Milk Cows ") while in the Bay of Biscay.
:" He could speak French and Latin well, and is said to have known something of every tongue between the Bay of Biscay and the Jordan.
The Dearne and Dove Canal, which was opened in stages from 1798 to 1804 to access the local collieries on the southern side of the Dearne Valley, passed through the town just to the north of the High Street on a large embankment and then turned north into the valley ; this wide section was known locally as the ' Bay of Biscay '.

Biscay and had
These provinces and many areas of Navarre are heavily populated by ethnic Basques, but the Euskara language had, at least until the 1990s, all but disappeared from most of Álava, western parts of Biscay and central and southern areas of Navarre.
In prior centuries, Lumo had been the meeting place of the traditional Biscayan assembly, Urduña and chartered towns like Guernica were under the direct authority of the Lord of Biscay, and Enkarterri and the Durango area had separate assemblies.
By 1747 he had become surgeon of in the Channel Fleet, and conducted his experiment on scurvy while that ship was patrolling the Bay of Biscay.
Also, the area within the triangular shape has been reported to had never had a tornado fully touch the ground since 1871 when recording began in Biscay.
For several months the Allies had been planning an attack upon Brest, the French port in the Bay of Biscay.
Due to fascist control of large parts of it, the first short-lived Basque Autonomous Community had power only over Biscay and a few nearby villages.
The last regular passenger flights landed at Heathrow Airport on Friday, October 24, 2003, just past 4 p. m. – Flight 002 from New York, one from Edinburgh, Scotland, and the third which had taken off from Heathrow on a loop flight over the Bay of Biscay.
On the 12th Admiral Kempenfelt, who had been sent out by the British Government with an unduly weak force to intercept him, sighted the French admiral in the Bay of Biscay through a temporary clearance in a fog, at a moment when Guichen's warships were to leeward of the convoy, and attacked the transports at once.
Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda related that a sailor from the Bay of Biscay called the Viscayno or Biscayno had lived on the lower east coast of Florida for a while after being shipwrecked, and a 17th century map shows a Cayo de Biscainhos, the probable origin of Key Biscayne.
Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda related that a sailor from the Bay of Biscay called the Viscayno or Biscayno had lived on the lower east coast of Florida for a while after being shipwrecked, and a 17th-century map shows a Cayo de Biscainhos, the probable origin of Key Biscayne.
This would mean that people would have had to move from the Bay of Biscay across the edge of the Atlantic ice sheet to North America.
By the mid-1640s, the privateering community of Irish, Flemish and French based in Wexford had a fleet of 200 cargo ships and 21 frigates whose purpose was to attack English ships between Biscay and the Baltic.
* Jaun Zuria is the mythical first Lord of Biscay, said to be born of a Scottish princess who had an encounter with the god Sugaar in the village of Mundaka.
Leissègues had intercepted, chased and dispersed Brisbane's convoy in the Bay of Biscay on 15 December, Brisbane retaining only the largest merchant ships to help cover the flight of the smaller vessels.
Illustrious and Fort George had been diverted from NATO exercises in the Bay of Biscay, with RAF aircraft embarked for the exercise.

Biscay and its
The final stage of the voyage took the ship and its crew north-eastward from Vigo, skirting the Bay of Biscay to make landfall in England.
Biscay has been inhabited since the Middle Paleolithic, as attested by the archaeological remains and cave paintings found in its many caves.
According to the 2010 INE census, Biscay has a population of 1. 153. 724, and its population density of 519, 9 hab / km, only surpassed by the one of Madrid and Barcelona.
The Bilbao area has a line running from Bilbao's Concordia station to the large town of Balmaseda, calling at local villages and settlements on its way through Biscay, as well as the main towns of Basurto, Sodupe, Aranguren, and Zalla.
He defines the western coast-line of Spain and Gaul and its indentation by the Bay of Biscay more accurately than Eratosthenes or Strabo, his ideas of the British Isles and their position are also clearer than his predecessors.
In this case there is some vexillological relationship between them, as the flag of New Biscay bears the arms of Biscay impaled on its seal.
The decisive argument for its configuration was the First Carlist War, when the Miqueletes of Biscay and Guipuzcoa and the Miñones of Alava commenced their activities.
Several British cruiser squadrons shadowed Rozhestvenski's fleet as it made its way through the Bay of Biscay.
Royal Navy battleships of the Home Fleet were prepared for war, while British cruiser squadrons shadowed the Russian fleet as it made its way through the Bay of Biscay.
Soon after its source, the river forms a spectacular waterfall in the Delika canyon ( Alava ) and then enters the Biscay province through the town of Orduña.
The name may have two different origins ; one due its geographical location, as Garai is located in the upper area of Durangaldea and garai is the Basque word for " upper " or " the upper part "; but also, the name might be related to the hórreos, very common in this area of Biscay and that have the Basque name of garaidxe.
Gipuzkoa shares borders with the French department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques at the northeast, with the province and autonomous community of Navarre at east, Biscay at west, Álava at southwest and the Bay of Biscay to its north.
Balmaseda has been one of the most important cities in the Encartaciones region of Biscay due to its proximity to Cantabria and Castile.
In its interior there is a magnificent organ, one of the most ancient in Biscay, and a large group of sculptures.
The river is only 55 kilometres in length, and runs from headwaters in the Aizkorri Mountains, near the town of Legazpi to its outflow into the Cantabrian Sea at the town of Zumaia on the Bay of Biscay.
A large majority of the Boise Basque community traces its ancestry to Bizkaia ( Vizcaya in Spanish, Biscay in English ) in northern Spain.
Because of its economical activities and population, Durango is considered one of the most important cities in Biscay after the ones that compose the conurbation of Greater Bilbao.

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