An elizate (Basque pronunciation: [elis̻ate]), (Spanish: anteiglesia) is an early form of local government in the Basque Country which was particularly...

Mallabia (in Basque and officially, in Spanish: Mallavia) is an elizate, town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Basque Country...

Basque Country, northern Spain. Arexola, elizate Azkoaga, elizate Barajuen, elizate Etxaguen, elizate Gantzaga, elizate Ibarra, capital and main population...

Mount Artxanda and Mount Bandera on the north. Deusto was originally an elizate and also a municipality until 1925 when it was completely annexed by Bilbao...

from those of the rest of feudal Europe. Some aspects of this include the elizate tradition where local house-owners met in front of the church to elect...

new town on the right bank of the Nervión river, on the grounds of the elizate of Begoña and granted it the fuero of Logroño, a compilation of rights...

Garai (in Basque and officially, in Spanish Garay) is an elizate, town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Basque Country, Spain...

Abando was originally an elizate and also a municipality until 1876, when part of it was annexed to Bilbao, the rest of the elizate's municipal land was integrated...

church door in a meeting called elizate (or anteiglesia in Spanish) to debate and decide on local issues. An elizate in turn would elect someone to represent...

Zaldibar (in Basque and officially, in Spanish: Zaldívar) is an elizate, town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Basque Country...

organized into 72 elizates, grouped in six merindades. Each elizate had a representation in the Juntas Generales. Merindad of Busturia (26 elizates): Mundaka...

La Venta y Azkorri. Romo The founding nucleus of the town of Getxo, the elizate or anteiglesia is what currently is known as Santa María or Andra Mari...

Berriz (in Basque and officially, in Spanish: Bérriz) is an elizate, town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Basque Country, northern...

Atxondo was formed by the fusion of the former municipalities of the elizates of Apatamonasterio, Arrazola and Axpe in 1962. The name Atxondo comes from...

of 564 inhabitants as of 2017. This municipality has its origin in the elizate Líbano de Arrieta, which became a municipality in the 19th century. The...

authority in the republics of Novgorod until 1478 and Pskov until 1510. The elizate system of the Basque Country in which farmholders of a rural area connected...

political administration included all the towns and elizates that existed within its territory. The elizates were all governed by the Foral law, while the towns...

Mañaria (both in Basque and Spanish) is an elizate, town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Basque Country, Spain. Mañaria is...

Izurtza (in Basque and officially, in Spanish Izurza) is an elizate, town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Basque Country, Spain...

which receive different names depending on the area: parishes, pedanías, elizates, etc. The municipal territory in Argentina is called ejido or municipal...

existing church of Xemein, which, at that time, was an independent town (an elizate). The patronage of that church was a hot point in their relations, especially...

Infante Tello Alfonso of Castile, who was the 20th Lord of Biscay, near the elizate of Saint Agustín of Etxebarria (Basque: San Agustin Etxebarria; Spanish:...

streets, and started to expand over territories of the, by that time, elizate of Abando. In fact, the transit of people moving from Abando to Bilbao...

receive other denominations such as hamlets, parishes, villages, barrios, elizates, concejos, pedanías, annexed places and other analogous ones. In Alava...

This legend may also explain why Mundaca is ranked as the first among the elizates of Biscay. Apart from legends, the etymology of Mundaka is uncertain. The...

located in the area. Indautxu was a predominantly rural area of the former elizate of Abando until its annexation to the city of Bilbao in 1870. Starting...

founding document of Basque nationalism. Arana was born in 1865 in the elizate of Abando —which would end up annexed to Bilbao at the end of the 19th...

the non-fortified towns and villages of Biscay, which were organised in elizates. The Enkarterri, a historical region west of the river Nervión. The County...

of Gernika, with the legal status of "ledanía". Ajangiz would become an elizate in the 18th century. A small hermitage held the ecclesiastical archives...