fatherland : Idioms & Phrases


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
    ETA; Basque Homeland and Freedom; Euskadi ta Askatasuna.
    • in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials
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