fatherland : Idioms & Phrases
basque fatherland and liberty
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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