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Notable people with the name include:
- Xoán Paredes (born in 1975), Galician geographer
- Xoán de Novoa (João da Nova), Spanish explorer, 1460–1509
- Xoán Gato (born 1946), Spanish politician
Notable people with the name include:
San Juan, Spanish for Saint John, may refer to:
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo was an Iberian maritime explorer best known for investigations of the West Coast of North America, undertaken on behalf of the Spanish Empire. He was the first European to explore present-day California, navigating along the coast of California in 1542–1543 on his voyage from New Spain.
A Coruña is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. A Coruña is the most populated city in Galicia and the second most populated municipality in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country. The city is the provincial capital of the province of the same name, having also served as political capital of the Kingdom of Galicia from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and as a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982, before being replaced by Santiago de Compostela.
Juan is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of John. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, the diminutive form is Juanito, with feminine form Juana, and feminine diminutive Juanita.
Andrade is a surname of Galician origin, which emerged in the 12th century as the family name of the knights and lords of the small parish of San Martiño de Andrade, in the municipality of Pontedeume. The first mention of this small territory is to be found in the documentation of the monastery of San Xoán de Caaveiro, and belong chronologically to the 9th century. It was part of the region of Pruzos, which was created as an administrative and ecclesiastical territory of Kingdom of Galicia in the sixth century by King Teodomiro through a document written in Latin called Parrochiale suevum, Parochiale suevorum or Theodomiri Divisio. From the 12th century Pruzos, and therefore Andrade, were integrated into the county of Trastámara that belonged to the lineage Traba, the most powerful Galician family. By this same time the family group: Fortúnez, begins to unite their names Andrade as surname, since in this parish their family home was located. The knights of Andrade were faithful vassals of their lords the Counts of Trastámara throughout the middle centuries of the Middle Ages.
Cabana, cabanas or cabañas may refer to:
Johan de Cangas was a jograr or non-noble troubadour, probably active during the thirteenth century. He seems to have been from—or associated with – Cangas do Morrazo, a small town of Pontevedra, Galicia (Spain). Only three of his songs survive. All three are cantigas de amigo and in each of them the girl mentions a religious site (ermida) at San Momede do Mar. These references to the sea may be symbolic as they are real, but they have earned this poet the designation of "singer of the sea". In the first text, a girl asks her mother for permission to go see her boyfriend at San Momede do Mar; in the second she informs her mother that the boyfriend did not come and she has surely lost him; in the third she asks her boyfriend to meet her there, and not to break his word to her again.
Galicians are a Celtic-Romance ethnic group, closely related to the Portuguese people, and whose historic homeland is Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. Two Romance languages are widely spoken and official in Galicia: the native Galician and Spanish.
Baleira is a municipality in the Spanish province of Lugo. In 2002, 1,845 people lived in Baleira. It belongs to the comarca of Fonsagrada. The capital of the municipality is O Cádavo, a name often given by extension to the entire municipality. Its population in 2009 was 1,584 people according to the municipal register of inhabitants.
Bóveda is a municipality in the province of Lugo, Galicia, northwestern Spain. It belongs to the comarca of Terra de Lemos. The population in 2008 was 1,719 people according to the municipal register of inhabitants.
Antas de Ulla, is a municipality in the province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain. It begins in the territory of the Ulla river, which marks the boundaries of the municipality with the neighboring municipalities of Monterroso and Palas de Rey, municipalities with which make up the comarca of Ulloa.
Calvos de Randín is a municipality in Ourense in the Galicia region of the north-west Spain. It is located to the very south of the province.
San Xoán de Río is a municipality in the Ourense province of Galicia, an Autonomous Community in northwestern Spain. It is located in the north of the province. Named after Saint John, the local patron. The village of Domecelle is located within the municipality.
O Páramo is a municipality in the Spanish province of Lugo, situated in Galicia. It has a population of 1632 persons and an area of 74.92 km2. The Alcalde is Gumersindo Rodriguez Liz.
Castro is an Iberian surname coming from Latin castrum, a castle or fortress. Its English equivalent is Chester
The Monastery of San Xoán de Caaveiro is a Galician monastery founded in the tenth century by Saint Rudesind. It is situated in A Capela, in Galicia, within the Fragas do Eume natural park.
Juan Martínez may refer to:
Saint Juan may refer to:
The Corporación Radio e Televisión de Galicia (CRTVG) is the public broadcaster for the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.
Crisostomo or Crisóstomo is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: