Toponymic in Catalonia

Toponymic in Europe

Toponymic in iberian peninsula

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The culture and tongue Basque are one of the big secrets and controversies of the modern  anthropology and historiography. The difficulties in relating this tongue, and the political aspects that mingle with it, make every discussion about the origins of these people polluted immediately by the filies and phobias that they awaken.

In this web page we depart from the basis that during a lot of time the true reach of the Basque culture has been concealed in the history of the peninsula along the times. Even though the Catalans are possibly one of the people of Europe that best have ressisted the manipulations of the political interests of the government which we have been subjected to, many are still amazed by the fact that "Aran" means "valley" in Basque. The story of fabules of the celtibers still remains in our subconscious, beside the "Cinderella"'s. It does not seem a special distortion of the history to us. It seems to us a chapter of the distortions exercised usually all over the world.

And let's not say when people speak about the Basque substratum in Europe. We can bet tranquilly that any reference to the theories that speak about this substratum is not made in any classroom of history of any country. But it is not because it is not the most plausible. It is because it disassembles all conceptual outlines on which they have constructed the feelings of national identification of a lot of the European people.

This page invites everybody that want participate in the building of a toponymic map of basque and/or proto-Basque of Catalonia, the Iberian peninsula, in and Europe, that reflect the theory that seems more and more indisputable: that there was a proto-Basque substratum related with the man of Cro-magnon in all Europe, previous to the arrival of the Indoeuropean people, and that the current Basques are the last vestige that remains.

Every contribution of any knowledge or designation of possible inaccuracies which you want to make, will be welcome: pltolosana@terra.es