As emphasized by Jean Goyhenetche, it would be more accurate to depict it as the reunion of five entities: Labourd, Lower Navarre, Soule but also Bayonne and Gramont.
The Southern Basque Country, known in Basque as Hegoalde (literally, "the southern part") is the part of the Basque region that lies completely within Spain, and as such it is frequently also known as Spanish Basque Country (País Vasco español in Spanish).
It is the largest and most populated part of the Basque Country.
Not to be confused with its homonym constituent parts.
For the Spanish autonomous community, see Basque Country. For the unofficial Basque territory in Spain, see Southern Basque Country.
in the western Pyrenees that straddles the border between France and Spain on the Atlantic coast.
Euskal Herria is the oldest documented Basque name for the area they inhabit, dating to the 16th century and thus predates the emergence of Basque nationalism by at least two centuries.
It comprises the Autonomous Communities of the Basque Country and Navarre in Spain and the Northern Basque Country in France.
Even though they are not necessarily synonyms, the concept of a single culturally Basque area spanning various regions and countries has been closely associated with the politics of Basque nationalism.
The region is home to the Basque people (Basque: ), culture and traditions.
The area is neither linguistically nor culturally homogeneous, and certain areas have a majority of people who do not consider themselves Basque, such as the south of Navarre where in 1996 the census reported that 71% of inhabitants did not identify themselves as Basque – although fewer people in the same area (53%) opposed measures to support the Basque language. The name is difficult to accurately translate into other languages due to the wide range of meanings of the Basque word herri.
It can be translated as nation; country, land; people, population and town, village, settlement.