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  History for Fun a A t p r i h 0 3 f p l t   1   1 2022 a t   9 c : 1 s 4 3 l   f r f A M e d m i    ·  The Basque language throughout history. Via the above Facebook group, here are some posts by people responding: - No, France won't give their independance to districts that have a local language. In France there is too many of them. -  Same trend also with Slovenian language. And many more, I guess. We should take better care of global lingual diversity, not just biodiversity. - Spain is often criticized for its historic oppression of the Basque people … but by this map, one could think that France has been equally oppressive. -  definitely, the French Revolution basically killed it - Worst. The Révolution killed any regionalist identity. The Republic is Jacobinist, only Central French language (Paris) and culture have to exist. And, contrary to Spain. There is no regional autonomy in France. The exemple is actually the Basque languag...

from some comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKXnz9YMa9A Asier Urteaga 10 months ago Asier Urteaga 10 months ago The songs that appear on the video are called "bertso", there are a form of improvised poetry that our "bards" (bertsolari) sing in our festivals. Usualy, a judge gives them a premise for the song and qualified theyr job by theyr sagacity, speed of answer and veracity. National winners (txapeldun) of those contests are consider as celebrities and honorable people in the entire Basque lands (Euskal Herria)

  (Via Joice Joyce Chorbajian ) Gomidas and Other Armenian Materials in Spanish Archives Interview with Iván Gaztañaga MADRID/YEREVAN – Iván Gaztañaga is young Spanish political scientist and PhD in international law and international relations (University of Granada) and expert in Middle East Studies (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). The subject of his research is “The Genocide Against the Armenian People in Diplomatic and Consular Letters (1914-1925).” His article on the Armenian Genocide was published in the April 24 issue of the major Spanish newspaper El Pais.We met in 2017, during his first visit to Armenia, during which he conducted research at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute as a Lemkin scholarship winner. Dear Iván, as far as I know you are the first Spanish scholar the studying Armenian Genocide.To be honest, I don’t really know if I am the first Spanish scholar researching this topic, but I think I was the first researcher discovering and analyzi...