Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country of 1936The Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country of 1936 (Spanish: Estatuto de Autonomía del País Vasco de 1936; Basque: 1936ko Euzkadiren Berjabetasun-Araudia) was the first statute of autonomy of the Basque Country. It was approved by the Cortes Generales of the Second Spanish Republic on 1 October 1936 in Valencia, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War.
Basque Country (autonomous community)The Basque Country or Basque Autonomous Community, also officially called Euskadi, is an autonomous community in northern Spain. It includes the Basque provinces of Álava (Araba), Biscay (Bizkaia), and Gipuzkoa (Guipúzcoa). It surrounds two enclaves, Treviño and Valle de Villaverde. With a population of 2,242,343, it is the 8th most populous autonomous community of Spain.
LehendakariThe President of the Basque Government (Basque: Eusko Jaurlaritzako Lehendakaria, Spanish: Lehendakari del Gobierno Vasco), usually known in the Basque language as the Lehendakari (Basque: lehendakari, Spanish: lendakari), is the head of government of the Basque Autonomous Community. The lehendakari leads the executive branch of the regional government. The current lehendakari is Imanol Pradales, of the Basque Nationalist Party.
Spanish Civil War1936–1939 civil war in Spain
Basque ParliamentThe Basque Parliament (Basque: Eusko Legebiltzarracode: eus promoted to code: eu , Spanish: Parlamento Vasco) is the legislative body of the Basque Autonomous Community of Spain and the elected assembly to which the Basque Government is responsible.Basque languageLanguage of the Basque people
ÁlavaThe Province of Álava (Spanish:) or Araba (Basque pronunciation:), officially Araba/Álava, is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Basque Country, heir of the ancient Lordship of Álava, former medieval Catholic bishopric and now Latin titular see. Its capital city, Vitoria-Gasteiz, is also the seat of the political main institutions of the Basque Autonomous Community.
Spanish languageRomance languageSpanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It originated in the Kingdom of Castile, a historical kingdom in north-central Spain. Today, it is a global language with 519 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 636 million speakers total, including second-language speakers.
SpainCountry in Southern and Western EuropeSpain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union (EU) member state.
French languageFrench (français [fʁɑ̃sɛ] or langue française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, French and its closest relatives—the langues d'oïl, historically spoken in northern France and southern Belgium—descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. It was influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul and by the Germanic Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders.
Vitoria-GasteizVitoria-Gasteiz (Spanish:; Basque:; also historically spelled Vittoria in English) is the seat of government and the capital city of the Basque Country and of the province of Álava in northern Spain. It holds the autonomous community's House of Parliament, the headquarters of the Government, and the Lehendakari's official residency.LakuaLakua is a district of the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, of the Basque Country, Spain. ContextLocated at the north of the city, actually with more than 50,000 inhabitants, the biggest urban concentration of the capital of Alava. Lakua is divided in various subdistricts or neighbourhoods, which have their own personality in Lakua but they share an origin and a similar architecture.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.