Beasain
Gipuzkoa · GuipúzcoaPaís Vasco / Euskadi · País Vasco
Compound Basque toponym already documented in the main corpus entry. Here marked as secondary stop of the Basque-Riojano for its geographical proximity to the Goierri upland.
See main Beasain entry. This is a secondary reference of the Basque-Riojano that crosses Goierri by the headwaters of the Oria without necessarily touching the main urban centre.
Evolution of the name
- behe + zain Old Basque before the 12th century
- Beasain medieval Basque from 1351
Glossary
- Industrial Goierri
- Industrial corridor of upper Gipuzkoa structured around the Northern Railway (Madrid-Hendaye, 1864) and the Oria river, with cores in Beasain (CAF), Ordizia, Zumarraga (Patricio Echeverría) and Legazpi. It concentrates the railway rolling stock, machine tool and auxiliary siderurgy industry of the Basque Country since the 19th century.
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Camino Vasco del Interior