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 Spains western Pyrenees; in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials

[ Syn: basque homeland and freedom , basque fatherland and liberty , euskadi ta askatasuna , eta ]

the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet