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5 unusual facts about Asturian


Blimea

Blimea is a place name emerged from many Asturian words with different phonetic variants translated into Castilian word " wicker " such as bima , blima , brima , blimba or bilma .

Luanco

Luanco (Asturian: Lluanco) is one of thirteen parishes (administrative divisions) in the Gozón municipality, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

Lynn Arnold

Dr Arnold conducted his research at the University's Graduate School of Education for his PhD in sociolinguistics and languages policies of Spain, especially Bable in the Asturias.

Pyneeandee

Due to only few remaining families with the name, the meaning of the name is largely unknown, traditional historians believe it was influenced by other Spanish dialects e.g. Catalan or Asturian.

Victory Cross

The Victory Cross (Asturian and Spanish: Cruz de la Victoria) is an early 10th century Asturian Christian ornamented processional cross, which was, as an inscription says, made in 908 in the Castle of Gauzón (Avilés, Spain).


Asturian American

Severo Ochoa (September 24, 1905 - November 1, 1993), Asturian-born doctor and biochemist, joint winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Arthur Kornberg

Asturian language

::The Asturian language also received much of its lexicon, from languages as Castilian, French, Occitan or Galician.

Western Asturian, is a linguistic variety in Western Asturian lands between the rivers Navia and Nalón, and western provinces of León, where is called Leonese as endonym, Zamora and Salamanca.

The dialects in adjoining areas of Castile and León have continuity with the Asturian dialects; in that area they are referred to as Leonese.

Battle of Lutos

The Asturian forces ambushed the Muslim army in a part of the valley near Grado, Asturias that has been thought by historians to be the area around Los Lodos.

Berdín Palace

The Berdín Palace (Spanish: Palacio de Berdín; Asturian: Palaciu de Berdín) is located in the village of Doiras, in Boal, Asturias, Spain.

Corrado Giaquinto

Battle of Clavijo - The legendary battle of Clavijo in which the Asturian king Ramiro I defeated the Muslims

Isabella of Portugal, Lady of Viseu

Once Alfonso was Count of Noreña, an Asturian village he had received from his father, Isabel's children used the Portuguese spelling Noronha as their family name.

Pepe el Ferreiro

He participated as lecturer in various conferences about Ethnography, in Canarias, Galicia, Navarra, Asturias; and in the Swiss cities of Zurich and Basel and in Aargau for the Federation of Asturian Societies in Switzerland.

Ramiro I of Asturias

The historical novel Los clamores de la tierra by the Asturian author Fulgencio Argüelles is set in the era of Ramiro I.

Torneo Tenis Playa

In 2006, the Torneo Tenis Playa is declared as tourist interest activity and it is broadcast on TV by Asturian TPA.


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