Talk:Basque Country (autonomous community)/Archive 1

Archive 1

Economy

The economy section is incorrect in stating that the basque country has the highest GDP per capita of all the autonomous communities in Spain. That honour falls to Madrid. Please see http://www.lukor.com/not-por/0512/28133913.htm --72.136.144.29 20:40, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

english please. Not spanish! this is wikipedia in eglish!!!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.18.239.96 (talk) 16:31, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

• The article you link is from 2004!!! a bit old don't you think? As far as I know we are discussing current data here, and besides I don't think that "one of the wealthiest" means "the highest GDP" where did you read that? David (talk) 08:15, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

French Basque

If the page is going to be titled using the French term for Euskadi, it should mention that the Basque Country also includes areas of three French provinces, spreading along the coast as far as Biarritz. A revised map showing the whole Basque region, rather than just the Spanish section would be more accurate.

This article incorrectly speaks about countRy which indeed is partly in France. I can only second that Basques themselves (in Biarritz) say Basque country speaking about the whole region in France and Spain. IMHO the title should contain either "county" or "province" (something referring to the fact that it is only an administrative region in Spain and not to mess with Basque country), or as a direct translation "Basque autonomous community". The mess seems to come from Spanish terms - País Vasco (basque land/country) vs. Pueblo vasco (basque nation/people). -- Goldie (tell me) 14:56, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

As Vertical123 says below, the official name is in Spanish Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco (Autonomous Community of the Basque Country), often shortened confusingly to Basque Country (País Vasco) or Basque Autonomous Community (Comunidad Autónoma Vasca), and often even to CAPV or CAV. The article should probably use all the time the ofical name or the shortening ACBC or BAC (that's the one I use in English), so the administrative region is not confused with the ethnic/historical one. --Sugaar 16:07, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

País Vasco is the official name in Spanish, País is Country and Vasco is Basque. There is no other way of going around. You can speak yes about a historical (and living) Basque nation which includes part of France too, but that is another article and not this one which is the political unit of spain called 'autonomous community or region', in this case we are talking about País Vasco .-Vertical123 20:56, 13 January 2006 (UTC) -

Ahem. One thing is the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country (comprising the Western Basque Country only) and another quite different one is the Basque Country, as historical, linguistical and self-percieved entity. Spaniards are not the only ones who can speak Spanish, you know, Basques ourselves do and call the whole country by that name when we speak in Spanish, French, Basque or English. --Sugaar 16:07, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Removed Spanish text

The following was bluntly pasted in the article. If you want to translate from Spanish, do or do not. There is no "try".--Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back 1982.

El nombre de País Vasco recoge dos conceptos diferentes. Por un lado, el País Vasco o Euskadi es una Comunidad Autónoma situada al norte de España, lindando al norte con el Mar Cantábrico y Francia, al sur con La Rioja, Castilla y León y la Comunidad Foral de Navarra, al oeste con Cantabria y al este con la Comunidad Foral de Navarra.

El nombre de País Vasco también recoge otra acepción, que es una región socio-cultural situada a ambos lados de los Pirineos ocupando, parcial o totalmente, territorios de Vizcaya, Guipúzcoa, Álava y Navarra en España, y de Zuberoa, Baja Navarra y Lapurdi en Francia, denominada Euskal Herria ("Pueblo Vasco") en vascuence. Véase el artículo Euskal Herria para más información a este respecto. A pesar de su relativamente pequeña población, el País Vasco concentra un gran volúmen de industrias y es una de las regiones más ricas de España. Pese a su cultura antigua y lenguas únicas (pre-románicas y de origen desconocido), el País Vasco siempre ha sido una pieza clave en la formación de España y su población. Los territorios de la región histórica de Castilla fueron repoblados en parte por vascos durante la Reconquista, así como contingentes leoneses y cántabros.

Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa /
Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco

140px|Bandera del País Vasco 90px|Escudo del País Vasco (En detalle) (En detalle)
Imagen:ccaa-País_Vasco.png
ISO 3166-2	ES-PV
Capital	Vitoria (Gasteiz)
Idiomas oficiales	español y vascuence
Superficie  - total  - % de España	Lugar nº 14 7.234 km² 1,4%
Población  - Total (2003)  - % de España  - Densidad	Lugar nº 7 2 108 281 5,0% 291,44/km²
Gentilicio  - en español  - en vascuence	vasco/a, vascongado/a. euskal herritar, euskaldun
Lehendakari (presidente)	Juan José Ibarretxe (PNV)
Estatuto de Autonomía	22 de diciembre de 1979
Representación parlamentaria  - Congreso  - Senado	19 escaños 3 escaños
Eusko Jaurlaritza / Gobierno Vasco

Provincias

• Álava (Araba). Capital: Vitoria (Gasteiz)
• Guipúzcoa (Gipuzkoa). Capital: San Sebastián (Donostia)
• Vizcaya (Bizkaia). Capital: Bilbao (Bilbo)

Municipios

• Lista de municipios del País Vasco.

Historia

Antiguamente se conocía a estas tres provincias como Provincias Vascongadas y cada una poseía una Diputación Foral.

El nacionalismo vasco considera este territorio parte de Euskal Herria.

Política

Partidos políticos con representación en el parlamento:

• Partido Nacionalista Vasco
• Partido Socialista de Euskadi, federación del Partido Socialista Obrero Español
• Partido Popular
• Eusko Alkartasuna
• Ezker Batua - Izquierda Unida
• Batasuna, actualmente ilegalizado como partido político por su apoyo a la banda terrorista ETA, sin embargo aún posee un grupo en el parlamento vasco.

current state pathetic

This article's lack of information needs to be addressed immediately. This region has a rich, though complicated, history and culture, and a specialist should step up and include information beyond the Basque Country's favorite foods. Wikipedia has more information on thousands of pornstars than it does on the Basque Country. Get it goin'!

take a look at Basque Country (historical territory), Basque people and Category:Basque for the set of artciles encompassing Basque history and culture. Mtiedemann 15:19, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Official name

Are the official names right? Estatuto de Guernica Ley Orgánica 3/79, de 18 de diciembre de 1979:

Artículo 1. El Pueblo Vasco o Euskal-Herria, como expresión de su nacionalidad, para acceder a su autogobierno, se constituye en Comunidad Autónoma dentro del Estado español bajo la denominación de Euskadi o País Vasco, de acuerdo con la Constitución y con el presente Estatuto, que es su norma institucional básica.

Art. 2. Alava, Guipúzcoa y Vizcaya, así como Navarra, tienen derecho a formar parte de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco.

Autonomi Estatutua

1.artikulua.-Euskal Herria, bere naziotasunaren adierazgarri, eta bere burujabetasuna iristeko, espainol Estatuaren barruan Komunitate Autonomo gisa eratzen da. Beronen izena Euskadi zein Euskal Herria izango da; eta Konstituzio eta Estatuto honetan adierazten direnak izango ditu oinarrizko instituzio-arautzat.

2.art.-Araba, Bizkaia eta Gipuzkoak eta era berean Nafarroak ere, Euskal Herriko Komunitate Autonomoaren partaide izateko eskubidea dute.

So Euskadi is official in Spanish and Basque and it should be Euskadiko Komunitate Autonomoa or Euskal Herriko Komunitate Autonomoa instead of Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa. Has some later law changed the official name or is just de-facto practice?

yes it has. it is now EUSKAL AUTONOMIA ERKIDEGOA. (signed: a basque)

To Vertical123 The official name is Comunidad Autonoma Vasca, which means Basque Autonomous Community. That must be the name of this article. País Vasco, depending on who you listen, with different meanings. What is more, Euskal Herria is the original name in Basque for the whole land of the Basques, the one divided in Spain and France. Euskal means Basque and Herria Country. So Basque Country must not be used here, but in the article whis says (Greater_region) and take 'greater_region' out. This is an encyclopedia, so we must keep ideas clear and not mix with politics. [User:Larbelaitz] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Larbelaitz (talk • contribs) 13:55, 27 August 2010 (UTC)