Where did the Basques live before they moved to France and Spain?

Answer 1

The lived in southern Poland (the mountains there are still called the Beskids). Some Basque tourists got very excited when a Polish tour guide told them the name of a local mountain. They told the amazed guide that the word meant "mountain" in Basque. The Basques probably moved to France and Spain from Poland around 25,000 BCE.

Before that, they had lived in Armenia. Before that, they had originally come from a huge swarm of people who had left Ethiopia around 30,000 BCE. The ones who went west from Armenia became the Basques, the Cretans, the Philistines, the Iberians, the Etruscans, the Picts, and many others. The ones who went north became the Circassians, the Chechens, the Sumerians, the Burushaskis, the Kets, and the Navajos. But the ones who went east became the Tai-Austronesians (including the Malays, Thais, and Polynesians), the Austroasiatics, and the Chinese, among many others. Some illustrious Asian relatives included the famous Jomon people, who invented the first pottery in Japan and went to Catalina Island in 13,000 BCE.

When they got to Spain, they went to war with the Capoid Cantabrians, and drove them into a corner. They ruled Spain unchallenged, until their relatives the Iberians arrived from central Europe around 6000 BCE and drove them into a corner.