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- The Basque region spreads over the border into Spain;
- The French part of the Basque country is much smaller than the Spanish Basque area;
- Basques were famous for working on fishing boats, especially those fishing cod in the Northern Atlantic
- There is no certainty about where the Basque people came from
- the Basque language is not related to any other European language
- traditional houses have their shutters painted in green or deep red ; the deep red is called "rouge basque"

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