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José Antonio Aguirre (politician)
José Antonio Aguirre y Lecube (6 March 1904 – 22 March 1960) was a Basques, Basque politician and activist in the Basque Nationalist Party. He was the first president of the Provisional Government of the Basque Country and the executive defense advisor during the Spanish Civil War. Under his mandate, the Provisional Government formed the Euzko Gudarostea, Basque Army and fought for the Second Spanish Republic. Early life José Antonio Aguirre was born in Bilbao, Biscay, Spain. He studied in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country's first Ikastola, a school in which all lessons were given in Basque language, Basque. He later studied law at the University of Deusto. After his father's death in 1920, Aguirre moved with his family to Algorta, near Bilbao. At 16 years of age, he had to become a father figure to his 10 younger brothers and sisters. After finishing his law studies, he began working in the family business, Chocolates Aguirre. He later took re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesús María De Leizaola
Jesús María de Leizaola Sánchez (7 September 1896 – 16 March 1989) was a Spaniards, Spanish politician and was named List of Basque Presidents, President of the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Government in exile after José Antonio Aguirre (politician), José Antonio Aguirre's death in 1960. Early years (1896–1931) Jesús María de Leizaola Sánchez was born to a wealthy family on Calle Getaria in San Sebastián on 7 September 1896. His parents were José Zacarías Leizaola and Cándida Sánchez. He was the third of seven children. Leizola qualified in law at the University of Valladolid and, in 1915, he began work for the government of Gipuzkoa, becoming exposed to Basque nationalism, nationalist politics. In 1919, he became head of the planning section for the Municipality of Bilbao where he joined the Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV). In 1922, he led a march calling for the creation of a Basque University in Gernika during which he was arrested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Deusto
The University of Deusto (; ) is a Spanish private university owned by the Society of Jesus, with campuses in Bilbao and San Sebastián, and the Deusto Business School branch in Madrid. The University of Deusto is the oldest private university in Spain. History Origins The University of Deusto first opened in 1886, having been founded because of the Basque Country's desire to have its own university and the Society of Jesus's wish to move its School of Higher Studies in Laguardia to a more central place. To that effect a huge building was designed by architect Francisco de Cubas, which was the largest building in Bilbao at the time. Now it is the main building of the Bilbao campus, opposite to the Guggenheim Museum, in the district of Deusto, which gives its name to the university. The ''Universidad Comercial'' (Business College), founded in 1916, was the first business school in Spain, and the only one for nearly 50 years. Civil War and postwar The advent of the Second S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Election
A general election is an electoral process to choose most or all members of a governing body at the same time. They are distinct from By-election, by-elections, which fill individual seats that have become vacant between general elections. General elections typically occur at regular intervals as mandated by a country's constitution or electoral laws, and may include elections for a legislature and sometimes other positions such as a directly elected president. In many jurisdictions, general elections can coincide with other electoral events such as Local government, local, Region, regional, or Supranational union, supranational elections. For example, on 25 May 2014, Belgian voters simultaneously elected their national parliament, 21 members of the European Parliament, and regional parliaments. In Politics of the United States, the United States, "general election" has a slightly different, but related meaning: the ordinary electoral competition following the selection of candid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navarre
Navarre ( ; ; ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre, is a landlocked foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and New Aquitaine in France. The capital city is Pamplona (). The present-day province makes up the majority of the territory of the medieval Kingdom of Navarre, a long-standing Pyrenean kingdom that occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees, with its northernmost part, Lower Navarre, located in the southwest corner of France. Navarre is in the transition zone between the green Cantabrian Coast and semi-arid interior areas and thus its landscapes vary widely across the region. Being in a transition zone also produces a highly variable climate, with summers that are a mix of cooler spells and heat waves, and winters that are mild for the latitude. Navarre is one of the historic Basque provinces: its Basque features are conspicuous in the north, but vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euzkadi (daily)
''Euzkadi'' was a daily newspaper published in Bilbao, Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country. Its first edition was on 1 February 1913. ''Euzkadi'' published texts both in Basque language, Basque and Spanish language, Spanish, and it employed one editor-in-chief for each language. The first editor-in-chief for Basque was writer Evaristo ''Kirikiño'' Bustintza. One of the Basque nationalist journalists who wrote for the paper was Manuel Aznar Zubigaray, who later would become a Falangism, falangist. He was the grandfather of eventual Spanish prime minister José María Aznar. ''Euzkadi'' supported the branch of Basque Nationalist Party that was called ''Comunión Nacionalista Vasca'' ("Basque Nationalist Communion") after the party had split in 1921. In June 1937, after the "national" forces had occupied Bilbao during the Spanish Civil War, ''Euzkadis publication there was cancelled. Its premises were offered to ''El Correo Español'' which then was the newspa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Primo De Rivera
Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquis of Estella, Grandee, GE (8 January 1870 – 16 March 1930), was a Spanish dictator and military officer who ruled as prime minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 during the last years of the Restoration (Spain), Bourbon Restoration. He was born into a landowning family of Andalusian Aristocracy (class), aristocrats. He met his baptism by fire in October 1893 in Cabrerizas Altas during the so-called Margallo War. He moved up the military ladder, promoted to brigadier general (1911), division general (1914), and lieutenant general (1919). He went on to serve as administrator of the Valencia, Madrid, and Barcelona military regions, distinguishing himself as a voice in favour of military withdrawal from Africa. During the crisis of the Restoration regime, specifically upon political turmoil in the wake of setbacks in the Rif War and the ensuing spillover of the enquiries of the Picasso file, Primo de Rivera staged 1923 Spanish coup d' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esteban De Bilbao Eguía
Esteban de Bilbao Eguía, 1st Marquess of Bilbao Eguía (11 January 1879 – 23 September 1970), was a Spanish politician during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Family and youth Esteban Martín Higinio de Bilbao Eguía was born into a Basque middle-class bourgeoisie family. His paternal grandfather, Manuel Bilbao, ran a merchant business in his native town of Guernica in Biscay province. One of Manuel's sons became a presbyter, while another, Hilario Bilbao Ortúzar, moved to Bilbao and practiced as a physician. Hilario married María Concepción Matea de Eguía Galindez, a descendant of a distinguished and widely branched Biscay family. The couple had six children, with Esteban All of the Bilbao Eguía children were raised in a fervently Catholic environment, though none of the sources consulted provides any information on the political preferences of their parents. The young Esteban was first educated at the Instituto Provincial, the local state-run secondary sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.''Webster's New World College Dictionary'', 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. When viewed as a single continent, the Americas or America is the 2nd largest continent by area after Asia, and is the 3rd largest continent by population. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World. Along with their Lists of islands of the Americas, associated islands, the Americas cover 8% of Earth's total surface area and 28.4% of its land area. The topography is dominated by the American Cordillera, a long chain of mountains that runs the length of the west coast. The flatter eastern side of the Americas is dominated by large river basins, such as the Amazon basin, Amazon, St. Lawrence River–Great Lakes, Mississippi River System, Mississippi, and Río de la Plata Basin, La Plata basins. Since the Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east. Europe shares the landmass of Eurasia with Asia, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia. Europe is commonly considered to be Boundaries between the continents#Asia and Europe, separated from Asia by the Drainage divide, watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural (river), Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea, and the waterway of the Bosporus, Bosporus Strait. "Europe" (pp. 68–69); "Asia" (pp. 90–91): "A commonly accepted division between Asia and Europe ... is formed by the Ural Mountains, Ural River, Caspian Sea, Caucasus Mountains, and the Black Sea with its outlets, the Bosporus and Dardanelles." Europe covers approx. , or 2% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface (6.8% of Earth's land area), making it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basque Country National Football Team
The Basque Country national football team () represents the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country in association football, football. It selects players from the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country autonomous community, Navarre and the French Basque Country and is organised by the Basque Football Federation. It is not affiliated with FIFA or UEFA and therefore only allowed to play friendly matches against FIFA or non-FIFA affiliated teams. The team has been referred to by various names including ''Euskadiko selekzioa, Euskal Herriko futbol selekzioa, Selección de Euskadi, Vasconia, Equipo Vasco, Euskadi XI'' and ''Basque XI''. Most of their home matches have been played in the San Mamés Stadium (1913), San Mamés Stadium which was replaced in 2013 by the new San Mamés Stadium (2013), San Mamés. The Basque Country has had a football team of its own since 1930. During the Second Spanish Republic, they played firstly under the name of '' Baskoniako se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 Copa Del Rey
The King Alfonso XIII's Cup 1923 was the 23rd staging of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish football cup competition. The competition started on 25 March 1923, and concluded on 13 May 1923, with the final, held at the Les Corts in Barcelona, in which Athletic Bilbao lifted the trophy for the ninth time with a 1–0 victory over CD Europa with Travieso netting the only goal of the match. Teams *Biscay: Athletic Bilbao *Gipuzkoa: Real Sociedad * Centre Region: Real Madrid * South Region: Sevilla FC *Galicia: Real Vigo *Asturias: Sporting de Gijón *Catalonia: CE Europa * Levante: Valencia FC Quarterfinals *Tiebreaker (because of equality of points - 1 win each) First leg Second leg ''Athletic de Bilbao qualified for the semifinals 8–1 on agg.'' ''CD Europa qualified for the semifinals 6–1 on agg.'' Tie break Semifinals First leg Second leg ''Athletic Bilbao qualified for the semifinals 2–0 on agg.'' ''CD Europa qualified for the sem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
