noun
a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees
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in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials
• Syn: ↑Basque Fatherland and Liberty, ↑Euskadi ta Askatasuna, ↑ETA
• Topics: ↑terrorism, ↑act of terrorism, ↑terrorist act
• Regions: ↑Spain, ↑Kingdom of Spain, ↑Espana
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑terrorist organization, ↑terrorist group, ↑foreign terrorist organization, ↑FTO
Useful english dictionary. 2012.