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Adalia, Valladolid

The Retortero and Darzuela streams run across it, and its maximum altitude lies at mount Atalaya, with 830m.

Al-Walid I

Valladolid is an industrial city and it is a municipality in north-central Spain, upon the Rio Pisuerga and within the Ribera del Duero region.

Alexander Agricola

He was in Valladolid, Spain, in August 1506, where he died during an outbreak of the plague on 15 August of that year.

Alfonso Pérez de Vivero, Count of Fuensaldaña

Alfonso Pérez de Vivero (Valladolid, 1603 - Cambrai, 21 November 1661), Count of Fuensaldaña, was a Spanish soldier, nobleman and officeholder.

Alonso Rodriguez

Alphonsus (Alonso) Rodriguez (not to be confused with St. Alphonsus Rodriguez), (Valladolid, Spain, 1526; died at Seville 21 February, 1616)

Bartolomé Carranza

Returning to Valladolid, he acted as censor (cualificador) of books (including versions of the Bible) for the Inquisition.

Benjamin Dwomoh

He is known to have refereed one match in the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain, between Kuwait and Czechoslovakia in Valladolid.

CB Valladolid

Club Baloncesto Valladolid, S.A.D. is a professional basketball team based in Valladolid, Castile-Leon, Spain.

Christina of Norway, Infanta of Castile

At Palencia, the Norwegians were officially met by King Alfonso who accompanied them to the city of Valladolid on 3 January 1258, "where she was warmly welcomed by all the townspeople, the nobility, and the clergy who were gathered there for the Cortes".

Colegio de San Gregorio

The Colegio de San Gregorio is a historical building in Valladolid, Spain, currently housing the National Museum of Sculpture.

Comayagua

Comayagua was founded with the name Santa María de la Nueva Valladolid by Conquistador Alonso de Cáceres under orders from Francisco de Montejo, Governor of Yucatán on December 8, 1537.

David Lord

On his father's retirement from the Army the family moved to Wrexham and then David was a pupil at St Mary's College, Aberystwyth before attending the English Ecclesiastical College, Valladolid, Spain to study for the priesthood.

Domingo Patricio Meagher

He became a professor of philosophy at the University of Santiago and professor of theology at the universities of Salamanca and Valladolid.

El Campillo

El Campillo, Valladolid— a municipality in Valladolid province, Spain

Felipe Bigarny

Between 1531 and 1533 he sculpted the tomb of Bishop Alonso de Burgos for the chapel of the Colegio de San Gregorio in Valladolid (now the site of the National Museum of Sculpture).

Fláithrí Ó Maol Chonaire

But O'Donnell died at Simancus, being assisted on his death-bed by Ó Maolconaire (Four Masters, ad an. 1602) who also accompanied the remains to their last resting place in the Franciscan church at Valladolid.

Francisco Bravo

Three years before, Dr. Pedrarias de Benavides had published his Secretos de Chirurgia, at Valladolid, Spain, and while the latter work is invaluable for the knowledge of Indian medicinal practices, and is the earliest book on these topics known to have been published, the work of Dr. Bravo has the merit of being the first medical treatise printed in America.

Francisco de Vitoria

In 1523 he returned to Spain to teach theology at the monastery of Saint Gregory at Valladolid.

Gonzalo Fernández de Traba

Gonzalo held the title of count, pertaining to the highest rank in the kingdom, by 4 February 1155, when he signed a royal charter at Valladolid as comes Gundisaluus.

Haris Medunjanin

In June 2010, after Valladolid's relegation – during the season, he scored all of his five La Liga goals as a late substitute – Medunjanin signed a four-year contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. of Israel for €1.8 million.

Illustrious Penitential Brotherhood of Our Lady of Anguish

The Illustrious Penitential Brotherhood of Our Lady of Anguish is a Catholic fraternity established in Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain in 1536.

Isaac ben Samuel of Acre

When Isaac met Moses of Leon at Valladolid, the latter took an oath that he had a copy of the Zohar written by Shimon bar Yochai himself in his house at Ávila.

Italian for Beginners

The film won the Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, the Golden Spike Award for the best film of the year at the Seminci film festival in Valladolid, Spain, and the Audience Award at the Warsaw International Film Festival in Poland.

Jean Louis Barthélemy O'Donnell

He became successively super-intendant of the provinces of Alava, Biscay, and Guipúzcoa in the Basque region of northern Spain, and later in Valladolid.

Juan Carlos Valerón

On 27 January 2008, Valerón returned to the bench in Deportivo's 3–1 home win against Valladolid, replacing Andrés Guardado for the final 15 minutes – his first match for over a year.

Juan de Espinosa Medrano

Antonio Cortéz de la Cruz, one of his disciples, collected Espinosa Medrano's sermons and published them posthumously in Valladolid, in a book entitled La novena maravilla (The Ninth Wonder) (1695).

Juan de Villagarcía

Juan de Villagarcía (John de Villa Garcia, known as Joannes Fraterculus or Friar John) (died 1564) was a Spanish Dominican from Valladolid, known as the witness to one of the statements of confession and recantation by Thomas Cranmer.

Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda

The Valladolid Controversy was organized by King Charles V (grandson of Ferdinand and Isabella) to give an answer to the question whether the Native Americans were capable of self-governance.

La Conquista del Estado

On October 10 the group around La Conquista del Estado merged with the Valladolid-based Junta Castellana de Actuación Hispánica to form the Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista.

Loftus William Otway

Joining Sir John Moore's forces in Galicia, Otway's regiment was instrumental in covering its retreat to Corunna and was engaged in several cavalry engagements at Rueda, Valladolid, Sahagún and Benavente.

Madrid Chamartín railway station

After Atocha itself was rebuilt in 1992, Chamartin lost much of its importance, even though since 2004 it has undergone changes to accommodate the new high-speed line to Valladolid.

Manuel Correia

He composed many motets, tonos humanos and villancicos, present in the songbook El libro de tonos humanos (1655) and in the cathedral of Valladolid.

Marcos Senna

His debut came on 1 March in a friendly match with Côte d'Ivoire, played in Valladolid.

Myroslav Stupar

He is the best remembered for his officiating of the 1982 World Cup game between France and Kuwait in Valladolid in Spain.

Óscar González

Óscar González Marcos (born 1982), Spanish footballer for Real Valladolid

Ossuary

The village of Wamba in the province of Valladolid, Spain has an impressive ossuary of over a thousand skulls inside the local church, dating from between the 12th and 18th centuries.

Portrait of Pablo de Valladolid

Portrait of Pablo de Valladolid is a portrait by Diego Velázquez of Pablo or "Pablillos" de Valladolid, 1587–1648, a jester and actor at Philip IV's court from 1632 until his death.

Renault Twizy

The Renault Twizy is a battery-powered two-seated electric vehicle, legally classified in Europe as a heavy quadricycle (light quadricycle for the lower-powered Urban 45 model) produced by Renault and manufactured entirely in Valladolid, Spain.

Roldán Rodríguez

Roldán Rodríguez Iglesias (born November 9, 1984 in Valladolid) is a Spanish racing driver, who competed in the GP2 Series from 2007 to 2009.

Royal Alcazar of Madrid

Until now, the Armoury had been located in the city of Valladolid.

Rueda

Rueda, Valladolid, a municipality in Valladolid province in the autonomous community of Castile-León, Spain

Same Love, Same Rain

It was screened at various film festivals, including: the Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain; the Gramado Film Festival, Brazil; the Oslo Films from the South Festival, Norway; the San Diego Latino Film Festival, San Diego, USA; and others.

Silviano Delgado

Silviano Delgado Valladolid (born September 4, 1969 in Coatzacoalcos) is a retired professional footballer from Mexico.

Środa Treasure

The majority of the items are displayed in local museum of Środa Śląska, although in the past exhibits were held in museums including the Archeologicial Museum in Wrocław, National Museum in Wrocław (which technically supervises the museum in Środa), National Archeological Museum in Warsaw, as well as abroad, in the Museum of Arttistic Craft in Dresden, Germany and in Valladolid, Spain.

Terry Drainey

In 1991, upon leaving Africa, Drainey returned to the Salford diocese where he was appointed parish priest at the church of the Holy Cross, Patricroft, Eccles in Salford, where he served for the next six years prior to being appointed spiritual director to the Royal English College at Valladolid in 1997.

Thomas Garnet

By 1595 he was considered fit for Saint Albans, the new English seminary at Valladolid.

Tomas de Lemos

The controversy aroused in 1588 by the publication of Luis Molina's work Concordia liberi arbitrii cum gratiae donis, between the Dominicans and Jesuits, had reached a heated and turbulent stage not only at Valladolid but also at Salamanca, Cordoba, Zaragoza, and other cities of Spain.

Wouter Weylandt

He participated as lead-out rider for team leader Tom Boonen, but when he dropped out Weylandt seized his chance and won the 17th stage in Valladolid.


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