Basques

From Turtledove

The Basques are an indigenous people who inhabit parts of north-central Spain and southwestern France. The Basque people are noted for having single eyebrows and a notoriously difficult language to learn. (Their language is in fact a linguistic isolate with no known relatives and is the only non-Indo-European language spoken in Western Europe.)

[edit] Basque in Atlantis

The Basques were among the people who traveled to Atlantis in the 15th century, establishing the settlement of Gernika in the extreme south of the continent in the 1460s. The inhabitants of Gernika were the first Europeans to visit Terranova, beginning the slave-trade with the use of the copperskinned natives.

The Basque colonies became Spanish possessions after Spain unified in 1469.

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