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unusual facts about Ábalos, La Rioja



Ábalos, La Rioja

In an 1199 bull, through which privileges were granted to the San Millán de la Cogolla monastery, the name Dáualos appeared.

In the fifteenth century it is known that Ábalos was village of San Vicente de la Sonsierra, whose lordship boasted different personages: Pedro Velasco, Pedro Girón, Juliana Aragón, Bernardino Velasco, etc. always due to numerous setbacks such as donations of gratitude, direct sales or inheritance.

Argentine real

Other provinces issued coins denominated in reales (silver) and escudos (gold): Córdoba, Entre Ríos, La Rioja, Mendoza, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán.

Battle of Cellorigo

The Battles of Cellorigo were two battles that took place over the Castle at Cellorigo, La Rioja, Spain from 882 to 883.

Benjamin Abalos, Jr.

Abalos is the second eldest of the five children of Benjamin S. Abalos, Sr., and Corazon de Castro.

Bernardo de Iturriaza

Bernardo de Iturriaza (1608, Ezcaray, La Rioja, Spain—1678, Lima) was a Spanish judge and colonial official.

Chrisstanleyite

First discovered by Dr. Werner Paar from a sample received from Hope’s Nose, Torquay, Devon, England, chrisstanleyite has since been discovered in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and in El Chire, La Rioja, Argentina.

CV Haro

Club Voleibol Haro, also known as Haro Rioja Voley is a Spanish volleyball club from Haro in La Rioja.

Dulzaina

The instrument is deeply rooted in the folklore of Burgos, Segovia, Soria, in some areas of Ávila, Madrid, Guadalajara, Cuenca, León and Salamanca, less extended in the Basque Autonomous Community and widely used in Navarre and La Rioja.

Eloy Alfaro

His father was don Manuel Alfaro y González, a Spanish Republican native of Cervera del Río Alhama, La Rioja, Spain who arrived in Ecuador as a political exile; his mother was doña María Natividad Delgado López.

Fernando Caruncho

His style is exemplified in the Marroquin Garden in Ollauri, La Rioja.

Historia Roderici

It was found in the late eighteenth century in San Isidoro in León, but was probably originally copied in Castile or La Rioja.

Martín Zurbano

Born in Varea, La Rioja, the youngest of four siblings, he fought in the War of Spanish Independence as a guerrilla.

Mateo Rosas de Oquendo

Notarial documentation shows him as engaged in the conquest of Tucumán, where he is named Accountant of Royal Finances and founds the city of La Rioja.

Raymond of Fitero

The monastery then moved to Castejón, and was finally established at a spot named Fitero (Castellón de Fitero), situated on the frontier between La Rioja and Navarre.

Spanish basketball league system

1ª División (14 groups, one for each autonomous community except Basque Country, La Rioja, and Navarra, who share the same group, like Valencian Community and Region of Murcia); in Catalonia, known as, Copa Catalunya.

Stilts

The local festivals of Anguiano (La Rioja, Spain) feature a dance on stilts in which dancers go down a stepped street while turning.

Tempranillo blanco

Tempranillo blanco was discovered in 1988 by a wine grower in a Tempranillo vineyard near Murillo de Río Leza in the La Rioja province of northern Spain.

The Man Who Owed a Death

A man named Héctor Rossi travels to La Rioja and fakes involvement in a bus accident while following a school-teacher, Leonor.


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