The guys who came with him were mixed with Moors, with Sephardic Jews, with Basques—a great mixture that was going on. That story continues.”Even the Taíno evolved as a distinct people only after centuries of traveling and merging with other populations in the Antilles. “So when people ...
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were; any man’s death...
Who are the Basques? Is Bosnia and Herzegovina in Europe? What type of government does Kosovo have? What is Lithuania? What caused the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s? What is the currency of Yugoslavia? Are Armenians Slavic? What is the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina? Who are...
Were there any Syrians living in Caucasus Mountains? What mountains run north and south through Russia? Who are the Kurds' ancestors? Where are the Ural Mountains? Which mountain range separates Georgia from Russia? Where did the Basques come from? What mountain range is found in South Central...
The striving of countries in Central Europe to enter the European Union may offer an unprecedented chance to the continent’s Gypsies (or Roman) to be recognized as a nation, albeit one without a defined territory. And if they were to achieve that they might even seek som...
The French are Alsatians, Basques, Burgundians, Bretons, Corsicans, Normans, Parisians, Provençals, etc. first and French second. Parisians believe that anybody who doesn’t live in Paris is a peasant and beneath contempt. Paradoxically, most Parisians (half are interlopers) have a ...
The Basques are, like the Greeks, children of the sun; while the Valencian drapes himself, bare and sad, in his russet woollen rug, with a hole to pass his head through, the natives of Galicia and Biscay have the delight of fine linen shirts, bleached in the dew. Their thresholds and...