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unusual facts about Balearic Islands


A Man, a Real One

Five years later, during a business trip to the Balearic Islands, with Boris and their children, Marilyne runs away at the very moment when Boris is going to leave her.


123 BC

Quintus Caecilius Metellus conquers the Balearic Islands for Rome, for which he earns the cognomen "Balearicus."

Antonio Martorell Sastre

Daniel Llambrich Gabriel (born December 8, 1978 in Inca, Balearic Islands) is an S9 swimmer from Spain.

Basque civil law

The Spaniard King Phillip V by means of the New Jurisdictional Decrees abolished the main part of both Public Law institutions and sources in the Spanish regions of Aragon, Valencia, Cataluña and the Balearic Islands.

Bellotti's goby

Gobius ater, Bellotti's goby, is a species of goby native to the Mediterranean Sea from the Balearic Islands and the Gulf of Lion to Nice and Sardinia.

Biel Medina

Gabriel 'Biel' Medina Piris (born 22 March 1980 in Mahón, Minorca, Balearic Islands) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Lleida Esportiu as a central defender.

Catalunya Ràdio

Catalunya Ràdio has grown significantly since its inception, and is currently available in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, Northern Catalonia, La Franja, and Andorra.

Dígame

Dígame (meaning 'tell me' in Spanish) is the title of a monthly listings magazine for the Spanish Balearic island of Majorca which is the best read English language magazine on the island.

Eduardo Sáenz de Buruaga

After the war Sáenz de Buruaga served terms as Captain General of Seville, the Balearic Islands; and Governor of Madrid and the comarca of the Campo de Gibraltar.

Entença, town

Because of this historical significance, streets or squares named 'Entença' or 'Entenza' are common in towns and villages throughout Catalonia, the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands.

House of Entença

Because of the historical significance of this bloodline, streets or squares named 'Entença' or 'Entenza' are common in towns and villages throughout Catalonia, the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands.

Hypolagus

Though unknown in the Iberian Peninsula, fossils of this genus have been found in the Balearic Islands, suggesting an eastern migration during the dry period in the Mediterranean region known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

James II of Majorca

James inherited from his father a realm including three of the Balearic Islands (Majorca, Ibiza and Formentera), the counties of Roussillon and Cerdanya, the dominion of Montpellier, the barony of Aumelàs, and the viscounty of Carladès.

Lamtuna

The Banu Ghaniya, successors of this dynasty in Tripoli and the Nafusa Mountains and governors of the Spanish Balearic Islands until about the middle of the 13th century, originated from this tribe as well.

Limits of the Five Patriarchates

Christians ever crowd until Ravenna, Lombardy, and Thessalonika, Slavic, and Scythians, and Avars until Danube river, the ecclesiastical border, and Sardinia, Megara, Carthage, and part of Balearic Islands, and part of Sicily and Calabria, where the winds blow nasty, from the north, from the south, from the west-south, and from the east-south.

MS Bluefort

From January to December 2007, the Meloodia was on charter to the Spanish shipping company Baleària on service between the Balearic Islands and Spanish mainland.

Nationality

Spanish law recognises the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Aragon, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Catalonia, Valencia, Galicia and the Basque Country as "nationalities" (nacionalidades).

Punics

Overseas they established control over some coastal regions of Berber North Africa like modern-day Tunisia and Tripolitania (modern-day Libya), Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, the Balearics, Malta, other small islands of the western Mediterranean and possibly along the Atlantic coast of Iberia, although this is disputed.

Sergi Enrich

Sergi Enrich Ametller (born 26 February 1990 in Ciutadella de Menorca, Minorca, Balearic Islands) is a Spanish footballer who plays for CD Numancia as a forward.

Spanish unionism

Nationalist parties are currently in charge of both the Catalan and Basque parliaments, whilst in Galicia, Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands (the other 3 autonomous communities with another official language different to the Spanish language) and in the Spanish Government, the People's Party is in power.

St. Stephen's Day

It is an official public holiday in Alsace, Austria, Balearic Islands, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Catalonia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moselle, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Sweden.

Vicente Javier Torres Ramis

Vicente Javier Torres Ramis (born June 14, 1974 in Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands) is an S5 swimmer from Spain.

William Edwards Cook

Already dismayed in the 1930s by his continuing lack of success as an artist, he apparently gave up painting, moved temporarily in Rome, and then settled with his wife in 1936 in Palma de Majorca, in the Balearic Islands.


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Balearic dialect

Some in the Balearic Islands, such as the Partido Popular and his governing José Ramón Bauzà, argue that the dialects of Baleric Islands are actually separate languages and not dialects of Catalan.

Cala d’en Serra

Sert’s clerk of works, Antonio Ferran signed off on his projects back in Catalonia to get around the fact that Spain's fascist government ensured that Sert himself could not be accredited as an architect in the Catalonia & Balearic islands region.

Robert Forrest Burgess

In Milan they purchased an Italian Lambretta motor scooter that winter, riding it 700 miles, across the Rivieras to Spain, where they took a ferry to the Balearic Islands.

Selectividad

#Galician, Catalan or Valencian and Basque are also common subjects in Galicia; Catalonia and Balearic Islands, Valencia; and the Basque Country, respectively.

#Galician, Catalan, Valencian and Basque are also common subjects in Galicia; Catalonia and Balearic Islands, Valencia; and the Basque Country, respectively

William Edwards Cook

Following his 1903 departure from the U.S., Cook resided in Paris, Rome, Russia, and on the island of Majorca, in the Balearic Islands off the eastern coast of Spain.