Basque people

:This article is about the Basque people. For other meanings, see Basque.

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The Basques are an indigenous people who inhabit parts of both Spain and France. They are predominantly found in an area known as the Basque Country, consisting of four provinces in Spain and three in France, located around the western edge of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay. The Basques are known in local languages as:

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Indigenous people - Spain - France - Basque Country - Pyrenees - Bay of Biscay

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• euskaldunak ("Basque speakers") or euskotarrak ("ethnically Basque people") in Basque
• Vascos in Spanish (or the older term Vascongados, which strictly speaking applies only to those Basques who live in the three provincias Vascongadas)
• Basques in French
• Bascos in Gascon

This article discusses the Basques as an ethnic group or, as some view them, a nation, rather than other ethnic groups living in the Basque areas. The coverage here of the history of the Basque region focuses on how it bears on the Basques as a people.

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Ethnic group - Nation

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