Aberri Eguna [SEP] named after
Aberri Eguna
Aberri Eguna ("Fatherland Day") is a holiday coinciding with Easter Sunday which has its roots in the Basque nationalist movement. It was first organised by the Basque Nationalist Party on 27 March 1932 in Bilbao, then consisting of a demonstration of some 65,000 participants which terminted at the Sabino Arana House. It has since become the unofficial Basque national holiday.
Etymology.
"Aberri" is a neologism coined by Sabino Arana based on the suffix "-ba" which occurs in numerous kinship terms (e.g.
on the Aberri Eguna
- Article by John Ysursa on Aberri Eguna
- José Luis de la Granja Sáinz, "El culto a Sabino Arana: La doble resurreción y el origen histórico del Aberri Eguna en la II República", in "Historia y política: Ideas, procesos y movimientos sociales", ISSN 1575-0361, Nº 15, 2006, págs. 65-116