The ikurriña (or ikurrina that is pronounced in Basque the same as the previous one) is a flag created in 1894 by the siblings Luis and Sabino it Claws (the founder of Nationalist Basque Party), as symbol of Euskadi that initially identified with the territory of Biscay.As he/she explained Spider (for example, in 1895, for a character's bizkaitarra mouth in The flag Phoenician), the design of the flag it was based on that of the shield of Biscay: He/she has a red bottom, color of the dominion of Biscay and, according to Spider, color of the old bottom of the shield. On this bottom, a green cross, the apostle's symbol San Andrés is superimposed, pattern of Biscay, taken of the seven crossings of the bordure of the shield. It would symbolize the independence vizcaína to have been reached San Andrés' day the victory of Arrigoriaga against the Spaniards. To San Andrés' cross he/she is superimposed a white cross, symbol of the Catholic religion, as the one that appears inserted in the oak of the shield. This order in the placement of the crosses meant that the legislation vizcaína should "depend on in an everything to the religious and moral" laws. picture
The one worshipped in the village of Oñate, Guipúzcoa of whose county is Patron, in its limits with that of Álava. He/she was appeared June 11 from 1468 to a called shepherd Rodrigo of Balzategui and, to their side, a bell, before those that the "Ave Maria" prayed and later he/she ran to also warn to the other neighbors that could contemplate, the prodigy and the image of the Mrs.. It is a size sedente, of 36 cm of high, of stone, with a weight of nine kilos, of final of the XIII century or principles of the XIV one, with the Boy, nude, on their knees. It is exposed on a green thorn that one says it is the original of their appearance. Among their visitors and devote more illustrious, San Ignacio of Loyola is, as he reminds it a tablet that evokes such facts:
Basque country, the same as other autonomous Spanish (as Andalusia and Catalonia) communities, he/she didn't want to adopt a historical shield and they have elaborated another shield according to the political events.The traditional shield would be the union of the shields of the three Basque counties (historical territories).But at the moment there is a fourth part, in red. It is it due to the pretenses that he/she had the Community Autonomous Basque on Navarrese where the fourth part had the chains of gold on red bottom. At the request of the autonomous government of Navarrese, the Constitutional Tribunal ordered its retreat, and now a red bottom only appears.Therefore the current shield of Basque country this formed by four barracks, three of them corresponding to the three Basque counties and one red. But of the shields of the three counties, it is necessary to point out that those of Guipúzcoa and Biscay are not the traditional ones. picture
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