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The native brown bear population was hunted to near-extinction in the 1990s, but its numbers rebounded in 1996 when three bears were brought from Slovenia. The bear population has bred successfully, and there are now believed to be about 15 brown bears in the central region around Fos, with only four native ones still living in the Aspe Valley.
The Pyrenees are the home of a variety of peoples, including the Andorrans, Catalans, Béarnais, and Basques. Each speaks its own dialect or language, and each desires to maintain and even augment its own autonomy while at the same time acknowledging a general unity among Pyrenean peoples.
The Pyrenees have been continuously populated since Paleolithic times; they have often acted as a refuge when the surrounding plains were not safe. Four extant languages were born in the Pyrenees: Basque, a non-Indo-European relict language, whose relationship to South Cau-casian (Kartvelian) languages is widely disputed (Lafon 1933; Ruhlen
11 Νοε 2024 · Basque, member of a people who live in both Spain and France in areas bordering the Bay of Biscay and encompassing the western foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains. The land inhabited by the Basques has a mild and damp climate and is largely hilly and wooded.
The Pyrenees Mountains rise between France and Spain. At their western end live the Basques, one of the oldest populations in Europe. All the available genetic information (gene frequencies of blood groups, serum proteins, red cell enzymes, and HLA antigens) on Pyrenean populations has been gathered …
From the structure of their relief and from the climatic conditions (especially on the south) that derive from the geographic situation of the chain, the Pyrenees have been divided into three natural regions: the Eastern (or Mediterranean), Pyrenees, the Central Pyrenees, and the Western Pyrenees.
What do the Basques mean when they say they are the Native Europeans? What evidence do they present when they make this argument? What have nations like France or Spain done to try to destroy a sense of Basque identity?
