Basques

Still, encouraged by Tarif's success, Musa resolved upon a somewhat larger venture.

In seven hundred eleven, learning that Roderic was busy in the north of his dominions, where there was a rising of the Basques, Musa dispatched one of his generals, the Moor Tariq, with seven thousand troops, most of whom were also Moors, to make another raid upon Andalusia.

The raid carried him further than he expected.

Tariq landed at the Lion's Rock, which has ever since borne his name, Gebal Tariq, Gibraltar, and after capturing Cateia, advanced inland.

There was nothing for it but to hurry back and defend his dominions.

He rapidly retraced his steps, and main part of his army had already crossed the mountains when disaster overtook the rear in the pass of Roncesvalles.

The Basques, who nourished an eternal hatred against the Franks, had laid a skillful ambuscade among the rocky defiles of the Pyrenees, and allowing the advanced part of the army to march through, waited till the rear guard, incumbent with baggage, began slowly to tread its way through the pass.

Then they fell upon it hip and thigh, so that scarcely a Frank escaped.

Yeah, and fuck the Celts.

And fuck the Basque.

And fuck the Finns.

And fuck the Hungarians.

Do not play any games on me about whether I am a Celt, a word that is dim to the anthropologist and utterly unmeaning to anybody else.

Do not start any driveling discussions about whether the word Shaw is German or Scandinavian or Iberian or Basque.

You know you are human.

i know i am irish i know i belong to a certain type and temper of society i know that all sorts of people of all sorts of blood live in that society and by that society and are therefore irish you can take your books of anthropology to hell or to oxford thus gently elaborately and at length mr shaw would have explained his meaning if he had thought it worth his while as he did not he merely flung the symbolic but very complete sentence i am a typical irishman my

His father was Colonel Don Juan Vincente de Bolívar, a 57-year-old military officer and colonial administrator who had extensive commercial interests, including 12 houses, a copper mine, a rum distillery, a textile business, and a range of agricultural enterprises worked on by hundreds of slaves.

The Bolivars owed their fortune to Simón de Bolívar, a Basque settler who arrived in the Americas in the 1560s, before helping to establish the colony of Venezuela and serving as a leading colonial official.

As accountant general of Venezuela, de Bolívar was able to ensure that he and his descendants would become the richest landowners in the colony, using the labor of Indian and African slaves, working in mines and plantations, to deliver great wealth to the Spanish crown.

When Simón Bolívar's father, Don Juan Vincente, was asked what name he would like to give his fourth child, he gestured to a portrait of his illustrious ancestor.

And maybe the second one is that he's too close of a Mandelibar on the profile.

Not because he's Basque, too.

But those Spanish coaches that never won the league.

I'm not going to praise Mitchell because he was everything but a coach.

I was looking at when he was there because I know that Sociedad won.

They won the Copa del Rey in 2020 or 2021, the first COVID year because they were in the final against Bilbao.

That was the first Basque final I

think maybe

He gave debuts to 30 players from the reserve team over those years, academy products.

He was known for continuing to support and promote the growth of academy, especially Basque players.

He secured European qualification five seasons in a row, which had never happened for that club.

So he did some great things for Sociedad that really tell us that this guy can work f- with...

These guys are playing now across some of the top teams in Europe and in the best leagues in the world.

So this is, this is not a, a nothing resume.

Now, is he going to prioritize Basque players like Mendilibar did at Olympiacos? We don't know.

But the id- what we would think is that the directive the club gives him is that he needs to do with Greek players what he did with Basque players.

You can't call him Spanish Gaz.

It's definitely Basque Gaz.

There's an important distinction, and I'm not going to get into it here because my Spanish history is quite OP, but yes, we must refer to him as the Basque defender rather than the Spanish defender from here on in.

Yeah, we were asking about differences and obviously the intensity of the game in the the championship in the English game compared to what he's played in Spain and in Portugal is much greater and he's openly admitted that it's taken him a little bit of time to get up to the speed of things.

That was definitely his best game so far for the Bolton by a distance.

For even in Europe and Asia, where no one supposes that different races sprung from wholly separate beginnings, we find languages isolated in the same way.

The speech of the Basques in the Pyrenees has nothing in common with the European families of languages.

We may, however, regard the natives of America as an aboriginal race, if any portion of mankind can be viewed as such.

So far as we know they are not an offshoot, or a migration, from any people of what is called the Old World, although they are, like the people of the other continents, the descendants of a primitive human stock.