Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Basque separatist movement had its roots in the early 1900s when the Spanish government revoked the "fueros". Fueros gave Basque citizens a unique position in Spain with special tax and political status; additionally, Basques didn't have to serve in the Spanish army. The separatist movement, however, didn't begin to evolve until 20 years into the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Basque separatists want a fully independent state consisting of the Basque Autonomous community (Alava, Vizcaya and Guipuzcoa), the Autonomous Community of Navarra and the Pyrenees-Atlaniques (Labourde, Basse-Navarre and Soule), for a total of seven. The Pyrenees-Atlantiques are located in southwestern France and border the four Spanish Basque provinces. See also Politics of France, Politics of Spain, Sabino Arana, ETA, Carlism, Jose Antonio Aguirre, ikurrina This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.