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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.
7 wrz 2015 · Two men saw a tree trunk with a "tronza" (traditional Basque saw) during a rural sports championship. DNA from ancient remains seems to have solved the puzzle of one of Europe's most enigmatic...
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
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?
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 …
The Pyrenees (Catalan: Pirineus; Spanish: Pirineos, French: Pyrénées; Occitan: Pirenèus; Aragonese: Perinés; Basque: Pirinioak) are a range of mountains in southwest Europe that form a natural border between France and Spain.
