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1965 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

The Men's Individual Road Race of the 1965 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 5 September in Lasarte-Oria, Basque Country, Spain.

2009–10 Eurocup Basketball

It began with qualifying round matches on October 20, 2009, and ended with the Eurocup Finals on April 17 and 18, 2010, at Fernando Buesa Arena in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain.

2010–11 Primera Catalana

The 2010–11 Primera Catalana was the 20th season of Primera Catalana, the 5th tier of the Spanish football league system and the highest league of the autonomous community of Catalonia.

Agounit

On June 7, 2006, and during the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the "Day of the Martyr" (commemorating the death in combat of El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, first president of the SADR), Mohamed Abdelaziz (president of the SADR) inaugurated a hospital (built up with help from the Basque country government), a desalination centre (built with the help of Andalusia government), a school and the Mayoralty of Agwenit.

Albayzín

El Albayzín (also Albaicín or El Albaicín) is a district of present day Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain, that retains the narrow winding streets of its Medieval Moorish past.

Apellániz

Apellániz (Apiñaniz in Basque) is a town located in the municipality of Arraia-Maeztu, in the province of Álava (Araba), in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.

Aravaca

During the long Spanish postwar period (1940-1959) millions of Spaniards left their homes in the poor provinces to migrate to industrial areas such as Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and the Basque Country.

Astra 400

Astra pistols were supplied to Republican Spain and to the Basque government which controlled the plant until the Bombing of Guernica in April, 1937.

Barriobusto

Barriobusto (Gorrebusto in Basque) is a town located in the municipality of Oyón-Oion, in the province of Álava (Araba), in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.

Basque Argentine

Politicians from the Basque Country autonomous community of Spain, including the lehendakari, are regular visitors to the country, and the Basque government has diplomatic representation in Argentina, currently María Elisa Díaz de Mendibil.

Basque Center for Applied Mathematics

Mazarredo, 14 in Bilbao, the capital of the province of Biscay in the Basque Country of northern Spain.

Bernardo de Iturriaza

Bernardo de Iturriaza (1608, Ezcaray, La Rioja, Spain—1678, Lima) was a Spanish judge and colonial official.

Bizkaiko Txakolina

Txakoli de Bizkaia – Bizkaiko Txakolina is a Spanish Denominación de Origen (DO) (Jatorrizko Deitura in Basque) for wines, located in the province of Bizkaia, Basque Country, Spain.

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.

Carlos Martínez Gorriarán

Carlos Martínez Gorriarán is a Spanish scholar, born in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain.

Catalunya Ràdio

Catalunya Ràdio has grown significantly since its inception, and is currently available in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, Northern Catalonia, La Franja, and Andorra.

Cordon sanitaire

In Spain, groups who are perceived as opposed to Catalan or Basque nationalism, such as the People's Party, have been sometimes excluded from any government coalition in Catalonia and the Basque Country.

Devoucoux

The company was started in 1985 by Jean-Michel Devoucoux in his workshop in the Basque village of Sare.

Domaikia

Domaikia is a town located in the municipality of Zuia, in the province of Álava (Araba), in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.

Dual naming

Another example of the phenomenon can be seed in the name of the capital of the Spanish Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Dulzaina

The instrument is deeply rooted in the folklore of Burgos, Segovia, Soria, in some areas of Ávila, Madrid, Guadalajara, Cuenca, León and Salamanca, less extended in the Basque Autonomous Community and widely used in Navarre and La Rioja.

ETB 1

Its reception area is across the Autonomous Region of the Basque Country but also can be seen throughout Navarre, French Basque Country and surrounding provinces.

Fernando Amorebieta

Born in Cantaura, Anzoátegui, Venezuela, Amorebieta met Athletic Bilbao's eligibility standards, having been raised in the Basque Country, and through his parents, both of whom hailed from the region.

Gaita gastoreña

Such instruments are only found outside El Gastor in Madrid and in the Basque Country (see: alboka).

Garbiñe Abasolo

Garbiñe Abasolo García (born in Bilbao, May 17, 1964) was the first Miss Spain from the Basque region.

Igor Antón

Born in Galdakao, Basque Country, Antón's first major achievement since turning professional in 2005, was winning the sixteenth stage of the 2006 Vuelta a España, between Almería and the Calar Alto Observatory.

Jesús María de Leizaola

Jesús María de Leizaola Sánchez (7 September 1896, San Sebastian - 16 March 1989) was a Basque politician and was named President of the Basque Government in exile after José Antonio Aguirre's death in 1960.

La Polla Records

They were formed in 1979 in Salvatierra/Agurain, a small town in the Basque Country (Spain).

Lazkao Txiki

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

Llama firearms

Its headquarters were in Eibar in the Basque Country, Spain, but they also had workshops during different times in Elgoibar and Vitoria.

Luanco

Luanco (Asturian: Lluanco) is one of thirteen parishes (administrative divisions) in the Gozón municipality, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

Luis Arconada

Aged 16 he joined local giants Real Sociedad's youth ranks, going on to play there his entire career and being known as "El pulpo" (Octopus in English).

Ordizia KE

ground = Altamira, Ordizia,
Basque Country,
Spain

Palacios del Arzobispo

Palacios del Arzobispo (Spanish for "Palaces of the Archbishop") is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca in western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.

Park of Armentia

The park of Armentia, commonly known as "El bosque de Armentia", is a gall-oak forest located between Vitoria-Gasteiz and the Mountains of Vitoria, in the province of Álava and of the autonomous community of the Basque Country in northern Spain.

Portugal–Spain relations

There is an unsettled territorial dispute regarding the municipality of Olivenza/Olivença and the smaller town and municipality of Táliga, both currently administered as a part of the province of Badajoz, in the Spanish autonomous community of Extremadura.

Puente de la Mujer

Costing about $6 million, the bridge was manufactured by the Urssa steel fabrication conglomerate in the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz in the Basque Country of northern Spain.

Research Committee on Sociology of Law

On 23 December 1988, the RCSL signed an agreement with Government of the Basque Country creating the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati which is located in the province of Guipúzcoa in the Basque Country in the north of Spain.

Secessionism in Western Australia

Western Australia was grouped with Scotland, Wales, the Basque Country, and Catalonia as "places seeking maximum fiscal and policy autonomy from their national capitals" in an October 2013 opinion piece in The New York Times.

Sopela

Sopela (Sopelana in Spanish) is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.

Spanish basketball league system

1ª División (14 groups, one for each autonomous community except Basque Country, La Rioja, and Navarra, who share the same group, like Valencian Community and Region of Murcia); in Catalonia, known as, Copa Catalunya.

Spanish rock

There are also large rock scenes in the large cities of the Basque Country such as Bilbao and San Sebastián, Valencia, and in Zaragoza but bands and venues exist throughout the country.

Star Model PD

The Star Model PD is a compact and lightweight semi-automatic pistol which was manufactured from 1975 to 1990 by the firearms manufacturing company Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A., located in the city of Eibar in the Basque region of Spain.

Urkabustaiz

Urkabustaiz or Urkabustaiz is a municipality located in the province of Araba (Álava), in the Basque Country (autonomous community), northern Spain.

Vía Verde de la Sierra de la Demanda

In 1896 the British company "The Sierra Company Limited" got permission from the Spanish government to build a narrow gauge railway to transport iron from the mines of the Sierra de la Demanda to Burgos, and once there to the Basque steel mills through the Burgos-Bilbao railway line.

Vilanova International World Music Festival

This festival belongs to the most selected group of world music festivals in Spain: Etnosur (Alcalá la Real, Jaén, Andalucía), Getxo (Basque Country), La Mar de Músicas (Cartagena, Murcia), Ortigueira (Galicia), and Pirineos Sur (Aragón).

Zalduondo

Zalduondo is a village and municipality located in the province of Araba (Álava), in the Basque Country (autonomous community), northern Spain.


see also

Abazu-Akabo

The clamour for the creation of more Autonomous Communities out of Akabo Autonomous Community was started by Abazu Community who felt that they were marginalized in Akabo Community even with their large size (they were the highest in terms of population and size).

AD Adra

Agrupación Deportiva Adra was a Spanish football team based in Adra, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

AD Alcorcón

Agrupación Deportiva Alcorcón SAD is a Spanish football team based in Alcorcón, in the autonomous community of Madrid.

Arroyomolinos

Arroyomolinos, Madrid, a municipality in the autonomous community of Madrid, Spain.

Astudillo

Astudillo, Palencia, a municipality in the Spanish autonomous community of Castilla y Leon part of the Province of Palencia

Atlético Monzón

Atlético de Monzón is a Spanish football team based in Monzón, in the autonomous community of Aragon.

Auritz

Burguete – Auritz ("Burguete" in Castilian, "Auritz" in Basque), a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain

Bárcena

Bárcena de Cicero, municipality in the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain

Bárcena de Pie de Concha, municipality in the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain

Cerviño

Cerviño is a surname originally from the province of Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain.

Corres

Corres (Korres in Basque) is a town located in the municipality of Arraia-Maeztu, in the province of Álava (Araba), in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.

Engracia

Santa Engracia del Jubera, village in the province and autonomous community of La Rioja, Spain

Gavet

Gavet de la Conca, a village in the province of Lleida and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain

Gudari

Euzko Gudarostea, an army commanded by Basque Autonomous Community (gudari being the Basque word for soldier)

L'Entregu CF

L'Entregu Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football club based in El Entrego in the autonomous community of Asturias.

La Zarza

Santa Cruz de la Zarza, village and municipality in the province of Toledo, part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Langarika

Langarika is a town located in the municipality of Iruraiz-Gauna, in the province of Álava (Araba), in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.

Luarca CF

Luarca Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football team based in Luarca, in the autonomous community of Asturias.

Maruri

Maruri-Jatabe, a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain

Mora Municipality

Mora, Spain, a municipality in the province of Toledo, autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha

Oroz

Oroz-Betelu, town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain

Paredes

Paredes, Spain, a municipality in the province of Cuenca, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha

Querida

"Asturias, patria querida", the anthem of the Spanish autonomous community of Asturias

Rueda

Rueda, Valladolid, a municipality in Valladolid province in the autonomous community of Castile-León, Spain

San Juan Reservoir

The San Juan reservoir (Embalse de San Juan, in Spanish) is located along the Alberche river between the municipalities of San Martín de Valdeiglesias, El Tiemblo, Cebreros and Pelayos de la Presa, at the south-eastern end of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, bordering on the province of Ávila.

Valenciana

Valencian Community (Spanish: Comunidad Valenciana), an autonomous community of Spain

Villaviciosa

Villaviciosa, Asturias, a municipality in the autonomous community of Asturias, Spain

Villaviciosa de Odón, a municipality in the autonomous community of Madrid, Spain

Weibersbrunn

The once autonomous community of Rohrbrunn achieved a greater measure of fame from the so-called former Spessart Inn (Wirtshaus im Spessart), whose name was used as the title of a narrative by Wilhelm Hauff, and also of the 1958 film based on the book.