Abstract
Basque nationalists claim that there has always been Basque speaking people (speaking Euskera- the name of the Basque language) in the territory that extends from Bordeaux in the north to Zaragoza and Burgos in the South and to Santander in the West. Such claims are not believed to be true by ethnologists. Their unit is however been on their common language. Today, the Basque country is made of 2 parts, a Spanish one and a French one and includes the 7 provinces land namely Spain: Vizcaya, Guipuzkoa, Alava and in France: Labourd, Basse-Navarre, Soule, Navarre.
