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unusual facts about Campo, Aragon



Almunia

Almunia de San Juan, a municipality in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain

Antón de Luna

Antonio de Luna y de Xérica (deceased in Mequinenza, Aragón, in 1419) was an Aragonese nobleman, Lord of Almonacid, Loarre, Morés, Pola and Rueda.

Aratorés

Aratorés is a small village located in the municipality of Castiello de Jaca in the Huesca province of Aragón, 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.

Bellesguard

The ground on which Bellesguard stands on was previously the site of a country residence belonging to Martin, king of Aragon and count of Barcelona.

Campo Baixo

There are similar monuments or chapels in other places in Cape Verde as well, e.g. in Vila Nova Sintra, the capital of Brava which is 15 kilometers away from Campo Baixo.

Campo Maior, Portugal

On May 31, 1297, the Treaty of Alcanizes was signed by King Ferdinand IV of Castile and King Denis of Portugal, whereby Campo Maior, together with Olivença and Ouguela, were transferred to Portugal.

Campo, Aragon

Situated in a valley between 2 rivers, the Esera and Rialbo, it is surrounded by snow-capped Pyrenean mountain peaks: most notably, the Turbón (2.492 m) and Cotiella (2.912 m).

Campo, Ticino

Campo Blenio, an old municipality now incorporated in Blenio municipality, in Blenio Valley, Switzerland

Caproni Ca.3

The accident occurred at the conclusion of a flight to Campo Formido near Udine to Bratislava (capital of Slovakia).

Catherine of Castile

Catherine of Castile, Infanta of Castile and Aragon, Duchess of Villena

Catherine of Austria, Infanta of Castile and Aragon, Queen consort of Portugal

Cecilia R. Aragon

On July 9, 2009, Aragon received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers.

Clube 15 de Novembro

Clube 15 de Novembro, or 15 de Novembro (also known as 15 de Campo Bom) as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Campo Bom in Rio Grande do Sul, founded on November 15, 1911.

Darco

Bernhard van Treeck: Graffiti Lexikon. Edition Aragon (1993) ISBN 3-924690-88-X.

Dulce Amargo

The co-protagonists include Roxana Díaz, Juan Carlos Martín del Campo, Alejandra Ambrosi, Carlos Guillermo Haydon, Alejandra Sandoval, Juan Carlos García, and Anabell Rivero.

El Campo de Marte

Campo de Marte originally was part of Exposición and later a horse racetrack, the Hipódromo de Santa Beatriz (before Jesús María Ward was split from downtown Lima Ward), in operation from 1903 to 1938.

El Cuervo

El Cuervo, Aragon, a municipality located in the province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain

Enrique de Borja y Aragón

Enrique de Borja y Aragón (b. December 19, 1518, Gandía - d. September 16, 1540, Viterbo), was a Spanish noble of the House of Borgia.

Entença

House of Entença, ancient dynasty of the Crown of Aragon and Catalonia

Ferdinand V

Ferdinand II of Aragon, Ferdinand V of Castile, the Catholic king of Castile, Aragon and Naples

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.

Giovanni di Filippo del Campo

Giovanni di Filippo del Campo (1600, Cambrai – 1648, Madrid), was a Flemish Baroque painter active in Rome.

Great Canterbury Psalter

Ferrer Bassa, considered to be the finest painter in the Crown of Aragón in the 14th century, developed a personality of his own, clearly marked by the Tuscan styles of the Trecento, particularly those of Florence and Siena with which he was so familiar.

Gurrea

Alcalá de Gurrea, municipality in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain

Henry Nugent

On 4 August 1704, Gibraltar was captured by an Anglo-Dutch force after a short siege which ended when Governor Diego de Salinas surrendered Gibraltar to Prince George, who took it in the name of the Archduke, as Charles III, king of Castile and Aragon.

Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis

To the east and southeast, Molitor pushed back General Ballesteros into Aragon, pursuing him as far as Murcia and Granada, winning an engagement at Campillo de Arenas on 28 July and forcing his surrender on 4 August.

Jesús Ángel Solana

However, Solana would be most known for his spell at Real Zaragoza, where he would add one Spanish Cup to his cabinet as well as the memorable 1994–95 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup against Arsenal, appearing in more than 300 overall official matches for the Aragonese.

Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona

He had by her: García, who went with his mother to Gascony; Sancho, who married Quissilo, daughter of García, count in Bailo; and Dadildis, wife of Muza Aznar ibn al-Tawil, wali of Huesca (grandson of Aznar Galíndez II of Aragon).

Joaquín Ascaso Budria

Historian Alejandro Díez Torre recovered and published in 2006 a book written by Ascaso himself, “Memorias, 1936-1938: Hacia un nuevo Aragón” (“Memoirs, 1936-1938: Towards a new Aragon”), which was edited by the University of Zaragoza.

José Lamiel

José Asensio Lamiel (born 29 January 1924) is an Aragonese painter and sculptor born in Calanda in the Spanish comarca of Bajo Aragón.

La Revolución de Emiliano Zapata

In the era of psychedelic rock and under the influence of American hippies of the late 1960s, a young band from Guadalajara headed by Javier Martin del Campo, formed with the intention of interpreting contemporary popular songs of the era in their own style.

Lagarde, Ariège

The Château de Lagarde is an imposing medieval building constructed in the 11th century with the first square tower (1063–1065) by Ramiro I, King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona.

Lechón

Lechón, a municipality in Zaragoza Province, Aragon, Spain

Liber feudorum

Liber feudorum maior, a list of fiefs held from the Crown of Aragon, compiled c.

Lovers of Teruel

According to 'professor' Antonio Beltrán, the legend grew when two mummies were found in San Peter’s Church (Teruel, Aragón, Spain), in 1555; and it was believed that they were Diego Marcilla and Isabel Segura, the lovers.

Luigi Rosa

In 1880 at Turin, he exhibited Interior of the Church of the Frari in Venice, in 1881 at Milan and Venice: Sul Livenza; Maremma; Un rio; Un campo a Venezia e Sul Gorgazzo.

Maestro de campo

One of the most famous maestro de campo was Julian Romero, a common soldier who reached the rank of maestro de campo and that brought victory to the Spanish tercios in the battles of San Quintín and Gravelines.

Neume

There is evidence that the earliest Western musical notation, in the form of neumes in campo aperto (without staff-lines), was created at Metz around 800, as a result of Charlemagne's desire for Frankish church musicians to retain the performance nuances used by the Roman singers.

Pedro Abarca

Born in Aragon, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1641, and passed almost all his religious life as professor of scholastic, moral, and controversial theology, chiefly in the University of Salamanca.

Peter, Duke of Coimbra

From Venice he then travelled to Rome, where he was received by Pope Martin V, and from there he continued to Barcelona, where he negotiated the marriage of his brother Edward with Eleanor of Aragon as well as his own future marriage with Isabella of Urgell, before finally returning to Portugal.

Rafael Merry del Val

The del Vals were an Aragonese family originally from Zaragoza, claiming descent from a twelfth-century Breton crusader; the surname Merry came from a line of Irish merchants from County Waterford, Ireland, who settled in the late eighteenth century in Seville, Spain.

Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona

Ramon Berenguer IV died on 6 August 1162 in Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy, leaving the title of Count of Barcelona to his eldest surviving son, Ramon Berenguer, who inherited the title of King of Aragon after the abdication of his mother Petronilla of Aragon two years later in 1164.

Ribera del Jiloca

Ribera del Jiloca is a Spanish geographical indication for Vino de la Tierra wines located in the wine-producing area of the Jiloca Valley, in the provinces of Teruel and Zaragoza, in the autonomous region of Aragón, Spain.

Serafín García Menocal

In 1956, under his leadership, the Scouts of Cuba bought the national training grounds Campo Escuela Nacional Mayabeque at Mayabeque, in the margins of the river of the same name, near Catalina de Güines in Havana Province within 50 km of the capital.

Sierra de Santa Cruz

Sierra de Santa Cruz, a mountain range in the Iberian System, Aragon, Spain

Spanish chivalry

The Spanish kings had frequently obtained the election of close connections of their families as Masters of the Orders and at Calatrava in 1489, Santiago in 1494 and Alcántara in 1495 the administration of the three Magisteries were ultimately granted to King Ferdinand of Aragón, as Sovereign of Aragón and King-Consort of Castille.

Vilanova International World Music Festival

This festival belongs to the most selected group of world music festivals in Spain: Etnosur (Alcalá la Real, Jaén, Andalucía), Getxo (Basque Country), La Mar de Músicas (Cartagena, Murcia), Ortigueira (Galicia), and Pirineos Sur (Aragón).


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