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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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        Here is a timeline of some major events since the founding of Eta, whose initials stand for Euskadi ta Askatasuna ( Basque Homeland and Freedom).
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