id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5596 Basque literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 2037 315 67 Although the first instances of coherent Basque phrases and sentences go as far back as the San Millán glosses of around 950, the large-scale damage done by periods of great instability and warfare, such as the clan wars of the Middle Ages, the Carlist Wars and the Spanish Civil War, led to the scarcity of written material predating the 16th century.[1] Only a few years later in 1545, the first book known to have been put into print is published a collection of poems fashioned by Bernard Etxepare,[3] a priest from Lower Navarre in the Northern Basque Country, by the title Linguæ Vasconum Primitiæ ("Beginnings of the Basque Language"). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Basque-language literature. Before Babel: A History of Basque Literatures. Before Babel: A History of Basque Literatures. Basque Literary History. An introduction to Basque literature. Categories: Basque literature Basque language ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5596.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5596.txt