Welcome to GeoNative! This is the site of Luistxo Fernandez, a Basque internaut. Me and my family (wife and son) are Basque and live in the Basque Country, a little nation divided between two states: France and Spain.
We live in a beautiful city, Donostia (pop. 200,000). Don't try to find Donostia in the map: Surely it's not there. You will find only the Spanish name of our city (San Sebastián) and not the original Basque. We think that this is a pity. And it's a pity too when we take a map and try to figure out what is the Gaelic name of Edinburgh, or how the Indian majority of Bolivia call their towns and cities.
Minority and native languages are almost never present in the maps. Geography ignores us!
We believe in the diversity of the world's cultures. We believe that minorities, little nations and native cultures are as rich and valuable as the big nations.
There are several ways to preserve this diversity; the treasure of the different human cultures. Two of those ways are:
And that is the purpose of GeoNative: promote respect and increase knowledge.
We focus on just one particular field: placenames, toponomy. We try to put our names and our languages right in the map. It is a modest effort, but for us it has great symbolic value.
GeoNative is maintained by Luistxo Fernandez. We appreciate your
comments; write us at
geonative@geocities.com.
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GeoNative is a bilingual site (Basque/English). Most pages are bilingual, others have two versions, and some appear in just one language. In the bottom of every page you will find shortcuts to the different parts of GeoNative.
There are no general stats for visitors, apart from some simple counters in some pages. However, we have installed a 'stats' page counting visits to the Main Table Index.
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