18 Facts About Sabino Arana

Sabino Policarpo Arana Goiri, Sabin Polikarpo Arana Goiri, or Arana ta Goiri'tar Sabin, was a Spanish writer and the founder of the Basque Nationalist Party.

Sabino Arana died in Sukarrieta at the age of 38 after falling ill with Addison's disease during time spent in prison.

Sabino Arana had been charged with treason for attempting to send a telegram to President Theodore Roosevelt, in which he praised the United States for helping Cuba gain independence from Spain.

Sabino Arana claimed that he had a quasi-religious revelation at Easter 1882, one that he communicated to his brother Luis Sabino Arana.

Sabino Arana was an early proponent of the use of the Basque language in all areas of society to avoid its increasing marginalization in the face of Spanish language penetration, which was imposed as mandatory in schooling, administration and even cultural events such as theater.

Sabino Arana learned the language as a young man, and competed for a position as a Basque language professor at the Instituto de Bilbao, contending against Miguel de Unamuno and the winner, Resurreccion Maria de Azkue who became a scholar of the language.

Sabino Arana's first published work was Bizkaya por su independencia, where he calls for the independence of the Biscay district from Castile-Spain, echoing like proposals put forward by Gipuzkoa's governmental representatives to the National Convention officials Pinet and Cavaignac in Getaria during the War of the Pyrenees.

Sabino Arana is considered by many Basques to be a gadfly that sparked the movement for the cultural revival of the Basques, and for the freedom of his people.

In that respect, Sabino Arana defended the Constitutional foundations of the abolished Basque institutional and legal framework.

Sabino Arana created am ideology centered on the purity of the Basque race and its alleged moral supremacy over others, anti-Liberal Catholic integrism, and deep opposition to the migration of Spaniards to the Basque Country.

Sabino Arana was disturbed by the migration into Biscay of many workers from western and central Spain during the Industrial Revolution, into a small territory whose native political institutions had recently been suppressed, believing that their influence would result in the disappearance of the 'pure' Basque race.

Sabino Arana presented the Basque as opposed to the maketo :.

Sabino Arana was a prolific writer, with over 600 journalism articles, most of them with a propaganda purpose.

Sabino Arana liked to shock and provoke, in order to get attention from a society that he deemed unaware of its fate.

Sabino Arana considered this to be an essential part of the Basque identity that contrasted with the secularism imported from other parts of Spain and abroad along with new means of production and labour, often unprecedented internal migration.

Sabino Arana's death left the question unanswered and neither his brother Luis nor the party followed through with his proposal.

Sabino Arana's ideas are considered to have spawned the Basque nationalist movement.

Sabino Arana believed that the suffix -[n]e was inherently feminine, and new names like Nekane or Garbine are frequent among Basque females.