Kurlansky needs to recount this history because it is inseparable from the Basque identity.

Laxalt brought Basque identity to the forefront of those living in the Western States.

A 146-year-old oak tree in Guernica, long a symbol of Basque identity, has died, a victim of last summer's heat wave.

This sense of Basque identity tied to the local language does not exist in isolation.

The largest symbol of Basque identity in football is Athletic Bilbao.

Thus, it was clearly an important stage for Euskaltel-Euskadi, given their strong Basque identity.

But the plan has already become the center of debate on the political course of Basque identity.

We will never do anything that could hinder the settlement once and for all of the ongoing conflict through the recognition of the Basque identity.

On 24 February 1974, he published a pastoral letter requesting the recognition of the Basque cultural and linguistic identity.

Let's go farther south-west, to tougher mountains where substantial farmhouses, and the food they produce, nourish Basque identity.