Europa vasconica Europa semitica This book presents the theory that the linguistic and cultural landscape of Europe north of the Alps and the Pyrenees was shaped in prehistoric times by the interaction of Indo European speakers with speakers of languages related to Basque and to Semitic. These influences on the lexicon grammar and toponymy of the West Indo European languages (with special focus on Germanic) are demonstrated in German and English research papers provided here with summaries commentaries and a new introduction in English and with general and etymological indexes.