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/bæsk fˈɑðərlˌænd ənd lˈɪbərti/ Listen

Basque Fatherland and Liberty

noun

A terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees. Synonyms: Basque Homeland and Freedom, ETA, Euskadi ta Askatasuna.

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... Catholic Church; Euskal Herritarok or EH [Herri BATASUNA]; free labor unions (authorized in April 1977); on the extreme left, the Basque Fatherland and Liberty or ETA and the First of October Antifascist Resistance Group or GRAPO use terrorism to oppose the government; Opus Dei; Socialist General Union of Workers or UGT and the smaller independent Workers Syndical Union or USO; university students; ...

— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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