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unusual facts about Deba, Gipuzkoa


David Zurutuza

Zurutuza joined Real Sociedad's youth system after starting his football career in Deba, Gipuzkoa.


Acharya Ilaram Das

Mahamanab Mahatma Gandhi, Deba Kanta Barua, Tyagbeer Hem Barua, Ex-Chief Minister Mahendra Mohan Choudhury, Sarat Chandra Sinha, Hiteshwar Saikia, Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, Loksevak Haladhar Bhuyan, Dr. Maheswar Neog, Nava Kanta Barua, Dr. Ram Charan Thakuria, Sarvodoya leaders Acharyya Vinobha Bhave, Amal Prabha Das, Ex-Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi,Bipin Pal Das, Bijay Ch.

Aisa Hota Hai

The film stars Muzaffer Khan, Deba, Sahasra Pathak, Pritha Nag, Amar Yadav, Salman Zaidi, and Aashish Dubey in the lead, most of the cast is in this film is new.

Basque bowls

This game is still fairly widespread in the east of Biscay from Mendiola to Mutriku and parts of Gipuzkoa (the Deba valley), there are bolo federations for this variant at the cross-provincial level and annual leagues.

Basque dance

Sorgin Dantza from Oria (Gipuzkoa) is a comical or a burlesque dance that reach their peak in the Sorgin Dantza, or dance of the witches.

Basque Prehistory

Overall the vast majority of important Neolithic sites are placed in the southern part of the country (Ebro valley): Fuente Hoz, Peña Larga, Berniollo and La Renke in Araba; Zatoia, Abauntz, Peña, Padre Areso and Urbasa 11 in Navarre; Herriko Barra in Gipuzkoa.

Basque Radical Rock

The bands receiving most votes in each Basque Spanish province were performing, namely RIP (from Gipuzkoa), Hertzainak (from Álava), Barricada (from Navarre) and Zarama (from Biscay).

Caristii

The Caristii are first mentioned by Roman sources; Pliny the Elder names them Carietes and places them in the Basque interior territories, what today is the southernmost regions of the Basque Country, while Ptolemy places them between the river Deba and Nervión, present-day provinces of Biscay and Gipuzkoa, with a territory triangle-shaped, reaching the city of Vitoria by the south.

Cervino

Txindoki, a mountain in the Province of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country

Ciriaco Errasti

After retiring, Ciriaco continued living in Eibar, and worked for several years in the Banco Guipuzcoano (Bank of Gipuzkoa).

Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas

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.

Debabarrena

The railway that communicates Bilbao and San Sebastian is also used in Deba, Mendaro, Elgoibar and Eibar mainly as a short-distance train.

The cities which compose it are Eibar, Placencia de las Armas, Elgoibar, Mendaro, Deba and Mutriku.

Félix Lavilla

Félix Lavilla Muñarriz (11 June 1928, Pamplona – 14 January 2013 Madrid) was a Spanish pianist, composer and a well-known accompanist, son of a music teacher and band master of the municipal band of Errenteria in Gipuzkoa, Basque Autonomous Community.

Felix Likiniano

Later he took part in the defense of the lines at the Gipuzkoa–Navarre border and, after St. Sebastian fell to the fascists, he continued armed resistance in Aragon, Catalonia, France (inside the French Resistance to Nazi occupation) and the Basque Country (trying to create guerrillas along the Franco–Spanish border).

Getaria

Getaria, Gipuzkoa, a coastal town in the Basque province of Gipuzkoa

Gipuzkoa

The region has produced many famous Basque football players including José Ángel Iribar, Joseba Etxeberria, Xabi Alonso and Mikel Arteta.

Guéthary

Actually, the linguist Henri Gavel put down the name of the town to the Gascon word getari, 'post for watching' (the whales), while this assumption has been disputed by current linguists, who trace the name back to latin caetaria, 'fish processing facility', supported by archaeological evidence unearthed both in Guéthary and the same name Getaria from Gipuzkoa.

Jokin Ormaetxea

Ormaetxea was a passenger in an Audi A3 driven by fellow cyclist Joseba Albizu of team Euskaltel-Euskadi when the car overturned after leaving the road near the town of Deba at approximately 6:40 am.

Lazkao Txiki

Iztueta was born in Lazkao, in the Goierri region of the province of Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Autonomous Community in Northern Spain.

Lorenzo Juarros García

After only four league games in his first two seasons combined, Loren became an undisputed starter for the Gipuzkoa side, helping it to the 1987 Copa del Rey – he did not play the final against Atlético Madrid due to injury, however.

Oñate

Oñate is an older spelling of Oñati, a town in Gipuzkoa, Spain

Pedro Antonio Olañeta

Pedro Antonio Olañeta (Elgueta, Gipuzkoa, Spain, 1770 - Tumusla (Potosí Department), Bolivia, April 2, 1825) was born of a humble family in Biscay province, Spain and emigrated with his parents to South America in 1797.

Salbatore Mitxelena

Salbatore Mitxelena (1919, Zarautz, Gipuzkoa, (Spain) – 1965 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland), was a friar and a writer in the Basque language.

Salvatierra/Agurain

As a result, the king founded various strongholds or free towns (salvas terras, seguras and villas francas) over the lands of Gipuzkoa and Álava in route to Gascony through the northern Way of St. James, with a view at the same time to fostering Castilian trade.

Txindoki

For the most part, it is not covered in forest just like most of the Gipuzkoan side of Aralar.

Yamaltu/Deba

Its headquarters are in the town of Deba (or Deba Habe) to the southeast of the state capital Gombe.


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