Does the Basque Country exist?
general Histoire of the Basque Country of Manex Goyhenetche, this question indeed deserves to be discussed as a preliminary being studied this territory. Deprived of administrative unit and not having never constituted in the history a politically linked territory, not merging with the surface of expansion of the Basque Language, is this “Basque Country” of a little artificial aspect well a concept which makes direction? When and how this idea of a transborder territory related to the Basque national identity constituted? It is thus advisable to locate the genesis of this idea of Euskal Herria according to the Basque terminology to appreciate the relevance of it. In the literature, several points of view on the subject are available. An author close to Basque nationalism, Jean-Louis Davant opens with a certain irony his Histoire of the Basque people by bringing back in the introduction a matter that in 1965 would have held to him the Préfet of the Yrénées-Atlantiques: “The Basque Count
