If the Ribera has historically been Euskaldun, it is the Byzantine debate (the Byzantine debate: a pointless debate in which each side cannot demonstrate its assertions to the other side) that has been repeated in Navarre for forty years. Jimeno Jurio, orthodox but reasonable, expressed this in his great work on the Basque: “We don’t know, and we have no evidence to say or to say.” He provided arguments and indirect evidence to confirm that, even outside the area, in the sixteenth century the presence of the Basque in the Ribera would be important.

Moreover, in the absence of discoveries that clarify the case, wanting to go beyond what Jimeno said is nothing but a desire to speak in vain. To speak from the point of view of linguistic science. It's also no wonder; to distinguish yourself, people are able to discuss anything. For example, doesn't a crew walk around trying to prove that the Earth is flat?

However, when the issue is stirred up, even if it is stirred up under the cover of science, heterodoxia, rationalism or some other reputable word, you do not want to demonstrate anything, but act here. The debate moves the bowels – Puta Pamplona, Tudela capital – secures the pages of the newspapers, gives the momentary glory, satisfies the desires for prominence and thickens the curricula, indispensable for anyone who has based his professional career on the political-linguistic quintaolumnism. And it is that, in the impossibility of elucidating whether the Basque Country has historically spoken in the Ribera, the really important thing is to give a ground to the hegemonic political stance (not heterodox, in person) that sustains the linguistic zoning of Navarre, to offer an argumental path.

But watch out, because the day will come when you can turn around reasoning and argument exploding under your nose. The Ribera, that beloved corner that occupies a small space on the map of Navarre, if it is not Basque, does not take away any vascuity from the rest of the territories of the Kingdom. And, on the contrary, the implicit question that is right on the reverse raises a big question: If the Bank does not share the Kingdom ' s Basque roots with the rest of its territories and is not Euskaldun by nature, unlike the rest of the Kingdom, what is it?