Basques are indigenous to, and primarily inhabit, an area traditionally known as the Basque Country (Basque: Euskal Herria)—a region that is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay and straddles parts of north-central Spain and south-western France.
This was actually a thing btw
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db2@lemmy.world 9 months ago
paddirn@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Those Basquerds.
robocall@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’d like more Basque facts please
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
The Basque language, also known as Euskara, is a language isolate and the last remaining language descended from pre-Indo-European roots after all the others were displaced during the Bronze Age. Though it borrows a lot of vocabulary from other languages now, its roots predate both Romance and Celtic languages.
olafurp@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Is it known that it predates Celtic? I thought people didn’t know much about the history of the language since nothing was written, just roughly where and when because of archaeology.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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GBU_28@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Bisque?
meyotch@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
Boise, Idaho hosts a sizable Basque population and features a couple of nice restaurants that feature their cuisine. Basque have traditionally been sheep-herders and some still work in herding professions.
billwashere@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Basque sports are a huge part of the culture, especially the traditional sport of pelota. There are many variations of this court-based ball game that has been played for centuries.
billwashere@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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_ The Basque region straddles the border between Spain and France along the Bay of Biscay. On the Spanish side it consists of the provinces of Vizcaya, Guipúzcoa, Álava and parts of Navarre._
billwashere@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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The Basque language, Euskara, is a language isolate - it is not related to any other known language. It is considered one of Europe’s oldest languages.
x4740N@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Why does the guy on the right look like Dr Phill
samus12345@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If he had a goatee, maybe.
Etterra@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Why did they pass a law making it legal to kill soup?
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t understand why this is a joke. You know a Basque isn’t a type of soup.
deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
i think it’s a play on the word “bisque”, which is a type of soup.
smeg@feddit.uk 9 months ago
See also any Scotsmen visiting York while carrying a bow and arrow
Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 months ago
And Englishmen being allowed to kill Welsh people on Sundays, or something like that.
Rolando@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Wait… aren’t we going to try to find out why?
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 9 months ago
There is an answer now in another comment (just wanted to give you a notification)
Rolando@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Thanks! “The Slaying of the Spaniards” sounds like something out of Borat, but it shows how we take things like international rescue operations for granted these days
inlandempire@jlai.lu 9 months ago
The law was overturned in 2015 apparently: theguardian.com/…/basques-safe-iceland-district-r…
MissJinx@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There are no countries without a dark chapter in their history. At some point every coutry had a shitty person in power. Even Iceland!
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 9 months ago
In 2015 they’re like
“Oh yeah we forgot about that law.”
“That would probably explain all the massacred bodies laying around everywhere. We oughtta do something about that.”
inlandempire@jlai.lu 9 months ago
I guess some laws can be forgotten. From 1800 to 2013, there was a french law that banned women from wearing pants in Paris : www.senat.fr/questions/base/…/qSEQ120700692.html
Artyom@lemm.ee 9 months ago
This is horrible but I can’t help but laugh. “Okay, about 80 people are stuck here because their ships ran aground last night. No one knows they’re here, so they have no way to leave unless we help them, so the logical decision here is to simply murder them until there are none left. All in favor of this, say aye!”
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I think it was more of, “hey, who the hell is suddenly robbing us?!”
They didn’t have the internet and daily news to tip everyone off. There’d just suddenly be stranded people near by, and if they decided to pillage before asking… I could EASILY see being hostile as a reasonable response. Not necessarily the KoS law, unless they really did just resort to pillaging and theft often.
lugal@lemmy.world 9 months ago
In 2015? Wow! Iceland is again, like always, ahead of its time