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1990 Tour of the Basque Country

cycling race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ9095008 ↗
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The 1990 Tour of the Basque Country was the 30th edition of the Tour of the Basque Country cycle race and was held from 2 April to 6 April 1990. The race started in Zestoa and finished at Barrendiola. The race was won by Julián Gorospe of the Banesto team.

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The public source identifies “1990 Tour of the Basque Country” as cycling race. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tour, Basque and Country.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tour, Basque and Country providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q9095008. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “1990 Tour of the Basque Country” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.