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Given that human conquest seems to be ubiquitous in all of history through most any challenge, how did the Basque people of Spain remain so isolated, to the point where centuries and centuries go by where they still have a language unrelated to any of their surrounding neighbors?

by /u/kick_my_wood in /r/AskHistorians

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