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.