Basque Country Term Paper by Top Papers

The paper relates that the Basque Country is a lesser known region in Spain constituting a separate culture, one with its own language and customs, and this is also a region that has been beset by unrest for decades because of a separatist movement that seeks to separate the Basque region from Spain. The paper mentions that the Basque language is spoken by about two percent of the people in Spain and the Basque region has a history extending back more than a thousand years, the origin of which remains uncertain today. The paper relates that there are seven provinces in Basque Country, and four of these are in Spain and three in France, since the Basque region crosses the border between those two European countries.