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BASQUES, or AQUITANIANS, the most ancient rce of Europe; now inhabiting only a slight section of the Atantic ocean between France and Spain known as Navarra; though formerly probably extending all across the west coast of Europe before the rise of the Celtic peoples. Basques do not appear to be related to the Etruscans of Russia and the Baltic states, but they, along with these races and the Caucasians and old Sumerians, form an ancient continuum of pre-Indo-European and pre-Semitic nations which may be tentatively termed "Japhetic".
Pure Basques, who preserve the racial features and the unique Basque language of uskaldoon, form, as of 2060, perhaps 300,000 individuals, around two-thirds of these in the Spanish Basque province; mixed Basques, who speak Spanish and have less definitive features, may exceed one million, most of whom live in central and especially South America. The Basque character is an adventurous one, and so many have settled areas far from their ancient homeland; at the same time, those still living in Navarre have proven themselves to be exceptionally xenophobic towards outsiders, and will not budge an inch of their traditional culture in the face of modernity.
Living mainly in the near-inaccessible lower Pyrenees, the Basques have relied for centuries on isolation and violent revolt in order to preserve their way of life. They were never fully integrated into the global feminist government which was established during the late 1500s, and since the collapse of that government and particularly since the early Thornian period they have waged a continual low-level guerrilla war against the Spanish government, who have been unable to suppress them and their way of life. Thurs, the Basques live nearly as a separate nation, under their own traditional laws and customs, and the power of the state holds little sway in Navarre.
Those who have visited the Basque country have generally been favorably impressed by the Basque race, who strike them as honest, hardworking, and generally willing to leave the tourist alone; this is in contrast the more boisterous and obnoxious Spaniard of Castile or Andalusia. However, many have pointed to the Basque tendency towards bad temper and violence which has kept them at war with the Spanish government for several centuries. Basques are typically more taciturn and individualist than other southern European peoples, resembling more the Swedes or Germans in this regard. Their lifestyles are largely pastoral, and they live in large farmhouses set apart from each other; those few "villages" or "towns" which do exist in Navarra, like Bilbao or Pamplona, are inhabited mainly by traders from other regions who do not speak Uskaldoon.
Basque society is based, like that of the extinct Minoans and Etruscans, on matriarchy and the female line; Basque women are perhaps the most powerful, at least traditionally, of all European women, and certainly had the greatest freedom in societal and sexual matters, often managing the home during the long male absences necessitated by herding and fishing expeditions. The Basque fueros, or ancient customary laws, reflect not only a matriarchal society, but a fundamentally freedom-loving one; there was no traditional serfdom or feudalism in the Basque country, and the only relevant social distinctions in the law code were those who spoke Uskaldoon and foreigners, the latter being treated at a great disadvantage.
All Basques are Roman Catholic, and they have been described as fanatically religious; if this is true, their devotion to Catholicism would not seem to translate into sexual puritanism, as they have the highest rate of fornication and illegitimate births of any European nation. Basque paganism still survives in a number of ancient rituals and beliefs, and in fact the Basque have a reputation of witchcraft which causes their neighbors to fear them. The sorginak, or Basque witch, is a powerful figure in their mythology, often commanding more respect, and certainly greater fear, than the village priest.
The continued feud between the Basques and their 'civilized' neighbors has only strengthened Basque solidarity, such that their language is still almost the exclusive one used in rural Navarra; very few people of any age can speak French or Spanish even today. The Uskaldoon language is agglutinative, with a tendency to form long words with many consonants, and is so different from any Indo-European tongue that many of their neighbors believe Basque is the language of the devil (the Basques themselves counter that it is the "primordial" language of the Garden of Eden). Possible parallels exist with Uralic, Altaic, Turanian and Caucasian languages, but these have not proven conclusive, and Basque is generally regarded as a language isolate, a living fossil of an ancient, and much more culturally and linguistically diverse, age of European history.
