Aysun and his brother Matruh ben Sulayman al-Arabi were allied to the Basques, and at Roncesvalles they attacked the baggage train of the frankish army (778) releasing their father.
Commercial bowhead whaling began in the 16th century, when the Basques killed them as they migrated south through the Strait of Belle Isle in the fall and early winter.
Though a relation between Lupus and Seguin I can be posited reasonably, no relationship between either and the Basques of Spain can be shown.
The Company was founded by a group of wealthy Basques from the province of Gipuzkoa in 1728, under the leadership of the Count of Peñaflorida, Xavier María de Munibe e Idiáquez.
Boise is home to the largest Basque population outside of Europe, with 15,000 Basques.
Catholicism, brought to the Basques by Christian missionaries, replaced early pagan beliefs in the 4th and 5th Centuries.
However, the geneticist Stephen Oppenheimer carried out an extensive research of the British Isles, finding that the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon influx had little effect, with the majority of British ethnicity tracing back from an ancient Palaeolithic Iberian migration, now represented by the Basques so that 75% of the modern British population could (in theory) trace their ancestry back 15,000 years.
Out of all Spanish nationalities, the Andalusians were the most represented, and one particular ethnic group, the Basques were present in main cities like Bogota, though Castilians are influential in the administration of the then Spanish colony of New Granada.
Throughout his career took place with the Basques, until retirement in 1965, after having spent 15 seasons in which he played 274 games, winning one championship and three Copa del Reys.
Luis Núñez Astrain, The Basques : their struggle for independence (1997. Welsh Academic Press)
This meaning of nationality is not defined by political borders or passport ownership and includes nations that lack an independent state (such as the Scots, Welsh, English, Basques, Kurds, Tamils, Hmong, Inuit and Māori).
The French Basque author Augustin Chaho (19th century) published The Legend of Aitor, asserting that the common patriarch of the Basques was Aitor, a descendant of Tubal.