In the early '80s, the people of the Basque country decided to change from an industrial to a postindustrial, service-based economy... Bilbao, with 400,000 inhabitants, is the capital of a province of 2.2 million ( the Basques maintain a distinctive indigenous culture and speak Europe's oldest language, Euskara; the region may constitute the oldest nation in Europe ). Acturban.org
Post-Industrial