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48 unusual facts about Córdoba


Abel Posse

Abel Parentini Posse, born Córdoba, Argentina, on 7 January 1934, is an Argentine diplomat and writer.

Alejandro Sokol

Sokol died in a bus depot in Río Cuarto, Córdoba Province, of cardio-respiratory failure, when waiting for a bus to take him to Buenos Aires back from the Traslasierra district, where he visited his daughter and grandchildren.

Almohad reforms

He was also well educated, having studied across the Islamic world in Alexandria, Córdoba, Mecca, and Baghdad.

Benjamin Apthorp Gould

In 1864 he fitted up a private observatory at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and undertook in 1868, on behalf of the Argentine republic, to organize a national observatory at Córdoba.

Castullo Guerra

Castullo Guerra (born August 24, 1945 in Córdoba, Argentina) is an actor most notably recognized for his role as the second actor to play Rafael Castillo on NBC's soap opera Santa Barbara.

César Gradito

César Luis Gradito Villarreal (born January 1, 1979 in Córdoba, Argentina) is an Argentine naturalized Mexican footballer.

Charles Dillon Perrine

He is buried in the cementerio disidente in the city of Córdoba.

Chushiel

Ḥushiel was certainly one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of the Talmudical teachers of the 10th century, and Samuel ha-Nagid, recognizing his importance and value, ordered that memorial services in his honor should be celebrated in Granada, Lucena, and Córdoba.

Common Places

They decide to buy a small lavender farm in Córdoba from a widowed man, Zacarías, and with the aid of their lawyer friend Carlos (Arturo Puig), attempt to start out their new business.

David Velázquez Fernández

David Velázquez Fernández was born on March 13, 1969 in Córdoba, Veracruz, the second son of Bernardino Velázquez Sánchez and Maria de la Paz Fernández Castañeda.

Desiderio Arce

After returning to Salta, Arce returned to singing music, making his first major appearance at Cosquin.

Diego Scaglia

Diego Scaglia (born Córdoba, 29 July 1967) is an Argentine-born Italian former rugby union player and a current coach.

Eduardo Mondino

Eduardo R. Mondino (born 3 May 1958, Córdoba, Argentina) is an Argentine journalist and Justicialist Party politician.

Efrain Chacurian

Efraín or Yeprem "Chico" Chacurian (born 22 February 1924 in Córdoba, Argentina) is a retired Argentine-American soccer forward.

Emilio Carballido

Emilio Carballido (Córdoba, Veracruz, 22 May 1925 – Xalapa, Veracruz, 11 February 2008) was a Mexican writer who earned particular renown as a playwright.

Emirate of Córdoba

The Emirate of Córdoba (Arabic: إمارة قرطبة, Imārah Qurṭuba) was an independent emirate in the Iberian Peninsula between 756 and 929 with Córdoba as its capital.

Enrique Marcatili

Enrique A. J. Marcatili (born 1 August 1925 in Córdoba, Argentina) is a retired Argentine-American physicist.

Enrique Scalabroni

Scalabroni was born in Cordoba and studied mechanical engineering at the Buenos Aires Technological University before being recruited by the Formula Renault Fama team in 1975.

Estrella del Valle

She was born in Córdoba, Veracruz, in 1971 and studied creative writing at the Writer's General Society of Mexico (Sociedad General de Escritores de México, SOGEM).

Federico Bravo

Federico Bravo (Jesús María, 5 October 1993) is an Argentinian professional football player who currently plays for Boca Juniors.

Félix de la Peña

He created this way the San Justo Department, and Unión Department.

FMA SAIA 90

This agreement called to both parties to establish a common office in the city of Córdoba, Argentina within the year for the production, marketing and associated support services of their products.

Francisco López Osornio

Born in Córdoba, Andalucia, Spain, son of Francisco de Osornio and Catalina López Moreno.

Georges Henri Issa

His technical management extended to KOHAR Symphony Orchestra and Choir 2012 in the “All Time Armenian Favorites” tour in South America performing 9 concerts in 4 major cities Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Córdoba and São Paulo.

Hernan D'Arcangelo

Hernan D'Arcangelo, (born November 11, 1980 in Córdoba) is a professional squash player who represents Argentina.

I.Ae. 34 Clen Antú

Between 1946 and 1956 the Fabrica Miitar de Aviones of Córdoba, Argentina was known as the Instituto Aerotecnico (I.Ae.).

I.Ae. 41 Urubú

Its development was assigned to the Instituto Aerotécnico (I.Ae.), in Cordoba.

Ianina Zanazzi

On June 1, 2000, Zanazzi was testing her Formula 3 Light car at Río Cuarto circuit and had a spun off due to an oil spot on the asphalt.

Isidro García

He also defended his title successfully against Jose Rafael Sosa in Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.

Jesús Salvador Pérez

Jesús Salvador Pérez Llerena (born December 25, 1971 in Córdoba, Bolívar) is a retired male boxer from Colombia, who competed in the bantamweight division (– 54 kg) during his career.

John Dundas Cochrane

John Dundas Cochrane died in 1825 in Valencia, Colombia while in transit, again on foot, to his family's mining interests in South America.

Jorgelina Cravero

Jorgelina Cravero (born January 23, 1982 in San Francisco, Argentina) is a former professional Argentine tennis player.

León Najnudel

The new nationwide league allowed basketball to grow in cities other than Buenos Aires, like in Bahía Blanca and Córdoba, that became important basketball centers.

Luca Prodan

In 1981, after a heroin crisis in the late 1970s London, he moved to an old Anglo-Argentine (Timmy McKern) friend's farm in the central hills of Córdoba Province Argentina seeking peace to try kicking his heroin addiction.

Martín Basso

Martín Basso (born July 26, 1974 in Cordoba) is an Argentine racing driver.

Menahem ben Saruq

Judah ben David Hayyuj, one of these three young scholars who so effectually defended their master, became the founder of scientific Hebrew grammar; another, Isaac ibn Gikatilla, was subsequently, as one of the most learned men of Lucena, the teacher of Jonah ibn Janah.

Michelle Engelsman

Michelle Engelsman (born December 9, 1979 in Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina) is a retired Australian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.

Born in Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina, Engelsman moved her family back to Australia at the very age, before they decided to settle in upstate New York, when she was seven years old.

Miguel Angel Biazzi

Miguel Angel Biazzi is a contemporary Argentine painter, sculptor, installation and sketch artist born in the province of Córdoba, Argentina.

Miguel José Yacamán

Miguel José Yacamán (born 1946 in Córdoba, Veracruz) is a Mexican physicist who has made many contributions to the field of nanotechnology.

Military history of Mexico

Thus although independence from Spain was first proclaimed in 1810, it was not formalized until 1821, under the Treaty of Córdoba, which was signed on September 16 in Córdoba, Veracruz, by the Spanish viceroy Juan de O'Donojú and Agustín de Iturbide, ratifying the Plan de Iguala.

Nuestra Belleza Veracruz 2011

Nuestra Belleza Veracruz 2011, was held at the Auditorio Doctor Manuel Suárez of Córdoba, Veracruz on July 1st, 2011.

Rosario Norte Station

The latter company also has a weekly service to Tucumán and one to Córdoba.

Rugby union in Bolivia

The confirmed roots of Bolivian rugby go back to the 1960s, when José Pipo Viale, from Córdoba, Argentina introduced the game to Cochabamba.

Sebastián Viberti

Sebastián Humberto Viberti Irazoki, nicknamed "El Pelado" (Córdoba, 25 May 1944 - Córdoba, 24 November 2012) was an Argentine footballer and trainer.

Sergio Lais-Suárez

Also President of the Argentina-India´s Friendship House and Founder Medical Director of Spasisimo International Ayurvedic Health Resort in Córdoba, Argentina.

Tracy Stallard

From 1967 to 1973, he played for several more minor league teams, including the Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs and High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms, with stops in Torreón and Córdoba of the Class AAA Mexican League.

Wilson Severino

Wilson del Valle Severino (born February 25, 1980 in Río Cuarto, Córdoba Province) is an Argentine footballer.


Airén

In 1914, García de los Salmones mentioned the cultivation of Lairén in Madrid, Villacañas (Toledo), Tarancón (Cuenca), Campo de Criptana (Ciudad Real), Frejenal de la Sierra (Badajoz), Montefrío (Granada), Baeza (Jaén), Coin (Málaga), Fiñana (Almería), Cazalla de la Sierra (Sevilla), Espera (Cádiz) and Córdoba.

In the 15th century it was known as Lairén (as it is in the Córdoba region today) and is cited as such in Gabriel Alonso de Herrera’s “Agricultura General”.

Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos

The Umayyads fell to the Abbasid Caliphate and the surviving member of the Umayyad Dynasty, Abd ar-Rahman I, fled to Córdoba.

Alejandro Naif

Raúl Alejandro Naiff (born March 23, 1973 in Córdoba, Argentina) is a naturalized Palestinian former footballer.

Álvaro de Bazán, 2nd Marquis of Santa Cruz

The other male of the family, Fernando, became Chancellor, Rector, of the University of Salamanca, and later, after ecclesiastical jobs at Seville and Cordoba, Archbishop of Palermo, Sicily, Italy .

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.

Azahara

Medina Azahara, the ruins of an Arab Muslim medieval palace in Córdoba, Spain

Capture of Bacharach

Córdoba left a garrison of 300 soldiers in Bacharach and sent most of his troops under the commanders Diego Ruiz and Baltasar de Santander to capture Kaub.

Castaño

Carlos Castaño Gil, (1965-2004) the founder of the Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Córdoba and Urabá (ACCU), an extreme right paramilitary organization in Colombia.

Central Argentine Railway

The lines handled by F.C.O.S., which served the southwest of Santa Fe Province and the south of Córdoba (up to the city of Cruz Alta), were merged with those of the larger company, and the passenger services handled by Rosario Oeste Santafesino Station were transferred to Rosario Central Station, while the former was renamed Rosario Este.

César Valoyes

César Augusto Valoyes Córdoba (born on January 5, 1984 in Bahía Solano) is a Colombian footballer who plays striker for Atlético Huila.

Charles Córdoba

Charles Córdoba Sánchez (born 15 September 1982 in Carepa, Antioquia, Colombia) is a Colombian footballer who plays as forward for Atlético Choloma in the Liga Nacional de Honduras.

Ciro y los Persas

The most important performances were in 2010 and made a CD, Orfeo Superdomo in Cordoba, in the theater Angel Bustelo, Mendoza, in San Juan, and Luna Park Stadium of Buenos Aires.

Colombian Tinamou

The Colombian Tinamou, Crypturellus erythropus columbianus, is a tinamou found in Córdoba, Sucre, Bolívar, and Antioquia in north-central Colombia.

False flag

Townley declared that the pamphlets were distributed in Mendoza and Córdoba in relation with false flag bombings perpetrated by SIDE agents, which had as their aim to accredit the existence of the fake Grupo Rojo.

Francisco Arias

He studied in Alcalá and was later professor of scholastic theology at Córdoba, and professor of moral theology at Trigueros.

Fundación Impulsar

Since its founding in Salta, eight other branches of the Fundación Impulsar have been established throughout the country, in Tartagal, Tucuman, Mendoza, Cordoba, Missiones, San Luis, Puerto San Julian and in Buenos Aires.

Gabriela Díaz

María Gabriela Díaz (born January 2, 1981 in Alta Gracia, Córdoba) is an Argentine professional BMX cyclist.

Gaspar Méndez de Haro, 7th Marquis of Carpio


His mother was Catalina Fernández de Córdoba y Aragón, the youngest daughter of Enrique Fernández de Córdoba Cardona y Aragón, a Grandee of Spain, 5th Duke of Segorbe, 6th Duke of Cardona, 4th Marquis of Comares, 6th Marquis of Pallarés, 36th Count of Ampurias, 11th Count of Prades and many other lesser titles, and Catalina Fernández de Córdoba y Figueroa.

Horacio Lavandera

Lavandera has been winning competitions since his youth, including the 10th Competition 'Meeting of Children and Young Musicians' (Córdoba, Argentina), and the Vº Biennial Youth Competition 99/00, the latter including a jury composed of maestros Martin Lovett, Malcolm Binns, and Elizabeth Robson.

Jeremías

During 2003, he appeared live in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla, Cordova, Bilbao, Zaragoza, Salamanca, Canary Islands, among others, having received a great acclamation from the Spanish public as well as music critics in Spain.

Loncopán

Of nomadic character, the tschen travelled through the south area of the provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa and Cordoba.

Luis Ceballos y Fernández de Córdoba

Luis Ceballos y Fernández de Córdoba (31 July 1896 in San Lorenzo de El Escorial – 26 September 1967) was a

Luis Fernández de Córdoba y Arce

A Spanish noble gentleman of El Carpio, in the Province of Cordova and member of an influential family, Luis Fernandez de Cordoba y Arce made his military career in the navy becoming a general of the Navy of the Philippines.

Montgó Massif

At the beginning of the 10th century the Moorish Caliph, Abd ur Rahman the Third, made a special trip from Cordoba to collect over a hundred medicinal herbs from the slopes of Montgó.

Nicaraguan peso

It was subdivided into 100 centavos and when it was introduced, it was worth 8 reales, and had the same weight and mass as the peso fuerte, but due to recurrent devaluations, it was replaced by the córdoba at a rate of 12½ pesos = 1 peso fuerte = 1 córdoba.

Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Córdoba and Urabá

Autodefensas Campesinas de Córdoba y Urabá (ACCU), Spanish for Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Córdoba and Urabá, was a paramilitary group formed in northwestern Colombia, operating mainly in the Antioquia Department and Córdoba Department.

Plaza del Potro

The reference in Don Quixote can be found in the Penguin Classics edition, translated by John D. Rutherford, in Chapter III as " ... Potro in Cordova ...", and in the Barnes and Noble edition, translated by Tobias Smollett, in Chapter III as " ... the spout of Cordoba ...".

Popular Liberation Army

Most of the demobilized guerrillas formed Esperanza, Paz y Libertad (Hope, Peace and Liberty), a political party, which claimed to defend the interests of workers and labor unions, especially around the Urabá area in the departments of Antioquia and Córdoba.

Río Cuarto, Córdoba

Río Cuarto River flows through the province of Córdoba; its central location in the Humid Pampas favored the city's development as a transport hub for much of the surrounding agriculture, and numerous abbatoirs and food processing plants opened in Río Cuarto during the twentieth century.

Suspension bridges road

In the Province of Cordoba, the mountain range of Sierras Grandes acted as a barrier dividing the territory and hampering communications between populations located east and west of the summits of Achala.

Tezonapa

Tezonapa is linked to Cordoba and Tierra Blanca by paved roads, although the Tezonapa - Vicente Camalote section is bad, most of the rest it is ok.

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.