Cullera is a city and municipality of Spain located in the Valencian Community. It is part of the province of Valencia and the Ribera Baixa comarca. The city is situated near the discharge of the river Júcar in the Mediterranean Sea.
Carles Santos was a Spanish artist who began his career as a pianist and later worked in many other creative disciplines, including musical composition, filmmaking, screenwriting, acting, scenic musical shows, graphics, montage, sculpture, photography, poetry, and prose.
Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, Count consort of Oñate and Count of Villamediana was a Spanish political figure. He played an important role in the Thirty Years' War.
The National Museum of Natural Sciences is the national museum of natural history of Spain. It is situated in the center of Madrid, by the Paseo de la Castellana. It is managed by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
Martí de Riquer i Morera, 8th Count of Casa Dávalos was a Spanish literary historian and Romance philologist, a recognised international authority in the field. His writing career lasted from 1934 to 2004. He was also a nobleman and Grandee of Spain.
The first names, or glossonyms, of the Catalan/Valencian language formed in a dialectal relation with Latin, in which Catalan existed as a variety. These names already expressed the relationship between the two languages. New names that related Catalan to Rome came about to dignify the Catalan language in the thirteenth century, though Latinists called it vulgar and the people planus, or pla.
The capture of Mahdia was an amphibious military operation that took place from June to September, 1550, during the struggle between the Ottoman Empire and the Spanish Habsburgs for the control of the Mediterranean. A Spanish naval expedition under the command of the Genoese condottiero and admiral Andrea Doria and the Spaniard Bernardino de Mendoza, supported by the Knights of Malta under their Grand Master Claude de la Sengle, besieged and captured the Ottoman stronghold of Mahdia or Mahdiye, defended by the Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis, known as Dragut, who was using the place as a base for his piratical activities throughout the Spanish and Italian coasts. Mahdia was abandoned by Spain three years later, and all its fortifications were demolished to avoid a re-occupation of the city by the Ottomans.
Enrique García Hernán is a Spanish historian of the culture of early modern Europe. His research examines the interaction of religious sentiment, political thought and international relations in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It attempts to bridge the gap between the study of forms of cultural and intellectual expression and the realities of political, diplomatic and military organization. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Academy of History, member of the Board of Directors (Vocal) of the Spanish Commission for Military History, and Fellow (Académico) of the Ambrosiana Academy of Milan. His current academic affiliation is as a research professor in the Institute of History, within the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Spanish National Research Council. The Spanish National Research Council is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe.
Joaquim Albareda Salvadó, is the chairing professor of modern history at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) and former director of the Institut Universitari d'Història Jaume Vicens Vives at the same college. He is the head researcher of the research project España y los tratados de Utrecht (1712-1714), of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and Grup d’estudi de les institucions i de la societat a la Catalunya moderna . Director of the history collection publication Referències from Eumo Editorial. During last years he has focused his research on the topic of the War of Spanish Succession (1705-1714) and the political history of the 18th century.
Per Catalunya! was a monthly publication issued from Havana, Cuba from 1942 to 1953. It was an organ of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC), published in Catalan language. The majority of Catalan refugees in Cuba were members of the party. The first issue was published on May 10, 1942.
A trapiche is a mill made of wooden rollers used to extract juice from fruit, originally olives, and since the Middle Ages, sugar cane as well. By extension the word is also sometimes applied to the location of the mill, whether the workshop or the entire plantation.
Felipe Maria Garin Ortiz de Taranco was a Spanish writer, researcher and Academician of art.
Consuelo Mata Parreño is a Spanish Teacher who specialises in Iberian material culture. She is currently the head teacher of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Valencia.
Valencian Art Nouveau is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the Art Nouveau in the Valencian Community, in Spain.
Mubārak al-Saqlabi and Muẓaffar al-Saqlabi were jointly the first emirs of the Taifa of Valencia between 1010 and 1018. They were brothers and Saqaliba, originally Slavic children that were captured, castrated, sold as slaves in Spain, and educated in the Islamic culture and religion. They became slaves of another slave named Mufaris who was chief of police in the palace of Almanzor in the Medina Azahara.
Ismael Saz Campos is a Spanish historian, specialised in the study of Falangism, Francoist Spain and the Spanish-Italian relations during the Spanish Civil War. He is a professor at the University of Valencia.
Carlos Martínez Shaw is a Spanish historian, professor emeritus of Early Modern History at the National University of Distance Education (UNED). He is a member of the Royal Academy of History.
The Crusade of Tedelis was a major conflict within the overarching struggle between the Crown of Aragon and the Kingdom of Tlemcen in the late 14th century.
The Spanish assault on Djerba was a 1510 military expedition directed by Ferdinand II of Aragon against the Tunisian island of Djerba. It resulted in the death of several thousand soldiers and is often known as the Djerba Disaster.
The Bona Crusade or the Annaba crusade was a military campaign initiated by the King of Aragon Martin the Humane against the Hafsid sultanate, carried out in the summer of 1399.
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