''Argia'' is a weekly news magazine published in the Basque language, the oldest one still in circulation. Their main office is in

Lasarte-Oria Lasarte-Oria is a town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country, northern Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national ...

, Basque Country. Its name was ''Zeruko Argia'' from 1919 to 1921 and from 1963 to 1980, and ''Argia'' from 1921 to 1936 and from 1980 to present. It had to cease its activity because of the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, lin ...

in 1936, and it could not be published again until 1963, when

Francoist Spain Francoist Spain ( es, España franquista), or the Francoist dictatorship (), was the period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death in 1975, Spai ...

lifted its ban on Basque-language publications. It was the journalists working in ''Argia'' that in 1990 created ''

Euskaldunon Egunkaria ''Egunkaria'' (Basque for ''The Daily'') for thirteen years was the only fully Basque language newspaper in circulation until it was closed down on 20 February 2003 by the Spanish authorities due to allegations of an illegal association with E ...

'', the Basque newspaper that in 2003 was closed down on orders from

Juan del Olmo Juan del Olmo (born 1958) is a Spanish judge in the 2004 Madrid train bombings case. In 2003, he ordered that the ''Euskaldunon Egunkaria'' newspaper be closed on grounds of accusations driven by a "narrow and erroneous view according to which every ...

— a Spanish juge in the

Audiencia Nacional The Audiencia Nacional (; en, National Court) is a centralised court in Spain with jurisdiction over all of the Spanish territory. It is specialised in a certain scope of delinquency, having original jurisdiction over major crimes such as those ...

— on grounds of accusations driven by a "narrow and erroneous view according to which everything that has to do with the Basque language and with culture in that language is promoted and/or controlled by ETA."Sentence of Audiencia Nacional in the ''Egunkaria'' case
passed on April 12, 2010.

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External links

Argia.eus

Argia English

''Argias multimedia channel
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