Vascons

ancient people

The Vascons ( Vascones in Latin) were the ancient people which lived current the Navarre. Its territory extended on the average valley from the Ebre, Calahorra ( Calagurris ) in the west with Alagón and with Mounts Castejón in the east.

Their name could be analyzed as a deformation of the name that the Basques are given: euskaldun , which means “Basque speaker”, “which speaks the Basque”.

He can come more simply from the city of baScunes close to Pampelune ( Pompaelo ). This city is known by the currencies which it emitted. The S is Rétroflexe ( S Basque or Spanish).

Vascons left them Nom with the Ethnie S Basques (to note that in Spanish Basque says vasco ) and Gascons (adaptation Gallo-Roman E of a Prononciation Germanique Waskon ), and thus with the Langue S which are the Basque and the Gascon respectively spoken with the Basque Country and in Gascogne.

ancestors of the current Basques

Vascons were not the only ancestors of the current Basques. The Western Basque provinces were the territory of:

Vardules or Bardyetes in Gipuzkoa and in the east of the Alava
Drivers or Conisci in Biscay and in the west of the Alava
Autrigons or Allotriges in the extreme west of Biscay and Alava.

the adjective

By generalization, one applies the adjective vascon to the supposed surface bascophone in antiquity and to the cultural features divided by these areas.

The supposed area bascophone, because of its Onomastic Basque, corresponds to the two Pyrenean slopes between Ebre and the Garonne until the top Pallars.

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