La Vasconia peninsular y la organización territorial española

Abstract

This article is divided in two parts. In the first part, the formation of the fifty Spanish provinces through history (until 1833) is analysed, focusing on the four Southern Basque provinces. In the second part, some regionalization projects from that date up to the creation of the State of autonomous communities (1979- 1995) are described, especially in relation to the two foral communities. Basque nationalism is independent from the province-creation process. Political Navarrism, on the contrary, cannot be understood without Basque nationalism and its goal of merging the four traditional territories in the same administrative entity.