Word: vizcaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guernica, twelve miles northeast of Bilbao, is the ancient seat of Basque democracy. At the sacred Oak of Guernica (now a dried old stump), the Kings of Spain used to swear to protect Basque rights, whereupon the citizens would confer on the sovereign the title of Senor de Vizcaya...
...destruction of Guernica will forever rank as the prototype of totalitarian bombing. There one had the systematic and complete obliteration of a town far behind the front lines-which was going to be taken without difficulty anyway, since the Loyalist troops were routed. ... It was the heart of Vizcaya, and to smash it was to break the heart of the Basques...