Mena (also: Spanish : de Mena, Basque : Menaca) is a Spanish surname that originates as both a Basque [1] [2] [3] [4] and Spanish Sephardic [5] [6] surname.
It is also a given name, Mena. The Meena tribe of India is also spelled as Mena.
Found in the valley of Mena (Alava, which today is Burgos), with branches in Bilbao and in Dima (Biscay) and it appears to have also moved from there into Navarre; regions now part of Spain. It appears to mean mineral or a vein of mineral deposits, however at least one author, Lopez Mendizabal, holds that its meaning is pastoral. A variant of the surname is Menaca, with the '-ka' suffix representing "place of", as in "place of Mena", equivalent to the Spanish "de Mena". [2]
Balmaseda is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Basque Country. Balmaseda is the capital city of the comarca of Enkarterri, in western Biscay and serves an important role in the province thanks to its proximity to the capital city of Bilbao and the regions of Cantabria and Castile and León.
Oiartzun is a town and municipality located in the Basque Country, in the province of Gipuzkoa lying at the foot of the massif Aiako Harria.
Arantzazu is a town and municipality located in the province of Bizkaia, in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country, northern Spain.
Gordexola is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.
Gorliz is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, which lies within the autonomous community of the Basque Country, in northern Spain. The town had 5,664 inhabitants in 2014.
Zambrana is a town and municipality located in the province of Álava, in the Basque region of northern Spain. It may be the origin of the popular Hispanic surname Zambrano.
Abárzuza is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.
Aibar is a town located in the province of Navarre, in the autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.
Zúñiga is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.
Oiasso, Oiasona or Oiarso was a Basque Roman town located on the left bank of the Bidasoa estuary in the Bay of Biscay. Archaeological evidence unearthed recently pinpoints the core area of Oiasso in the old quarter of Irun (Gipuzkoa) by the Spanish-French border, where harbour and bath remains have been discovered. However, two other focuses in Cape Higuer and hermitage Ama Xantalen point to a wider complex outside the main nucleus.
José Luis Álvarez Enparantza, better known by his pseudonym Txillardegi, was a Basque linguist, politician, and writer. He was born and raised in the Basque Country, and although he did not learn the Basque language until the age of 17, he later came to be considered one of the most influential figures in Basque nationalism and culture in the second half of the 20th century. He was one of the founders of ETA, but in 1967 he left because he did not agree with its political line.
Amarita is a hamlet and concejo in the municipality of Vitoria-Gasteiz, in Álava province, Basque Country, Spain. It lies along the Santa Engracia river, which empties into the Zadorra near Amarita.
Carmelo Alonso Bernaola was a Spanish composer and clarinetist from Basque Country. A member of the Generation of '51, he was one of the most influential composers in the Spanish musical scene of the second half of the 20th century.
Gero is a 17th-century ascetic book in Basque written by Pedro Agerre, better known as Axular. It is considered one of the masterpieces of classic Basque prose and literature altogether. Its accomplished, elaborate language in classic Lapurdian dialect turned it into a writing model for later writers from Labourd.
Gotzon Garate Goihartzun was a Basque and Spanish writer and linguist, collector of Basque dialects, Jesuit theologian.
This is a list of notable events in Latin music that took place in 2002.
Benita Asas Manterola was a Spanish teacher, journalist, and suffragist.
The Auñamendi Encyclopedia is the largest encyclopedia of Basque culture and society, with 120,000 articles and more than 67,000 images.
Bernardo Estornés Lasa, (1907–1999) was a Spanish lyrical poet and writer in the Basque language.
Bartolomé Feliú y Pérez was a Spanish politician, scientist and professor. He was a member of the Traditionalist Communion, of which he was delegate head between 1909 and 1912.
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