''Argia'' is a weekly news magazine published in the

Basque language Basque ( ; ) is a language spoken by Basques and other residents of the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country, a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of northern Spain and southwestern France. Basque ...

, the oldest one still in circulation. Their main office is in

Lasarte-Oria Lasarte-Oria is a town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, northern Spain. It was founded in 1986. It is estimated to have a population of around 19.000 people ...

, Basque Country. Its name was ''Zeruko Argia'' from 1919 to 1921 and from 1963 to 1980, and ''Argia'' from 1921 to 1936 and from 1980 to present. It had to cease its activity because of the

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in 1936, and it could not be published again until 1963, when

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lifted its ban on Basque-language publications. It was the journalists working in ''Argia'' that in 1990 created '' Euskaldunon Egunkaria'', the Basque newspaper that in 2003 was closed down on orders from Juan del Olmo — a Spanish juge in the

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— on grounds of accusations driven by a "narrow and erroneous view according to which everything that has to do with the Basque language and with culture in that language is promoted and/or controlled by ETA."Sentence of Audiencia Nacional in the ''Egunkaria'' case
passed on April 12, 2010.

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''Argias multimedia channel
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