Catalan is a Western Romance language derived from Vulgar Latin and named after the medieval Principality of Catalonia, in northeastern modern Spain. It is the only official language of Andorra, and a co-official language of the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencia. It also has semi-official status in the Italian commune of Alghero. It is also spoken in the eastern strip of Aragon, in some villages of Region of Murcia called Carche and in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of France. These territories are often called Països Catalans or "Catalan Countries".
John II, called the Great or the Faithless, was the King of Navarre through his wife from 1425 and the King of Aragon in his own right from 1458 until his death. He was the son of Ferdinand I and his wife Eleanor of Alburquerque. John was also King of Sicily from 1458-1468.
Spanish naming customs are historical traditions for naming children practised in Spain. According to these customs, a person's name consists of a given name followed by two family names (surnames). The first surname is usually the father's first surname, and the second the mother's first surname. In recent years, the order of the surnames can be decided at birth. Often, the practice is to use one given name and the first surname only, with the full name being used in legal, formal, and documentary matters, or for disambiguation when the first surname is very common. In these cases, it is common to use only the second surname, as in “Lorca”, "Picasso" or “Zapatero”. This does not affect alphabetization: discussions of "Lorca", the Spanish poet, must be alphabetized in an index under “García Lorca", never "Lorca".
Joan Coromines i Vigneaux was a linguist who made important contributions to the study of Catalan, Spanish, and other Romance languages.
Pujol is a surname of Catalan origin, it may refer to:
Gómez is a common Spanish surname. The Portuguese and Old Galician version is Gomes, while the Catalan form is Gomis. The name is sometimes spelled in the United States and Britain without the original Spanish accent.
Emilio Sagi Liñán, was a Spanish footballer who played as a left-winger for FC Barcelona, the Catalan XI and Spain during the 1920s and 1930s. He was the son of Emilio Sagi Barba, the Catalan baritone singer, and Concepción Liñán Pelegrí, a dancer, and as a result, was widely referred to as Sagibarba.
Costa, sometimes da Costa or Da Costa, is an Italian, Portuguese, Galician, Spanish and Catalan surname. Because of colonization and immigration, it is found throughout Latin America, being particularly common in Brazil and Argentina. It is also a surname chosen by Jews, due to Roman Catholic conversions.
The Anti-bullfighting City is a declaration of an ethics and policy statement adopted by the municipalities that do not support the practice of bullfighting within their borders and state that they are against the practice of bullfighting altogether.
Puig is a word of Catalan origin, meaning "hill" or "mountain". Hence, in Catalan-speaking areas, it appears in the names of numerous people and geographical features:
Pasqual is the Catalan equivalent of the Spanish given name Pascual, and a Venetian variant of Italian given name Pasquale. Pasqual is also a surname found in Spain and in Italy.
Montornès del Vallès is a municipality in the province of Barcelona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. The municipality covers an area of 10.2 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi) and the population in 2014 was 16,217.
Matthew Taberner is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He mainly plays as a key position forward.
Ramon Bech Taberner (1918-1995) was a Catalan writer and journalist.
Marc Serramitja Taberner is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Palamós CF as an attacking midfielder.
Bernat is a Catalan masculine first name. It comes from the Germanic male first name Berinhard, that means strong as a bear. Bernat is a first name documented since the Middle Ages which gave name to the surname Bernat and that we also in surnames as Gimbernat and Masbernat, created from mas and the first name Bernat.
Bonet is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
