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5 unusual facts about Castilian


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 .

Castilhano

Castilhano (Portuguese meaning Castilian, Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Kastidjanu, São Vicente Crioulo: Castilhano) is village in the northern part of the island of São Nicolau.

Castilian-Leonese cuisine

Major wines in Castilian-Leonese cuisine include the robust wine of Toro, reds from Ribera del Duero, whites from Rueda, and clarets from Cigales.

Enric Madriguera

(The Castilian form of his name is Enrique, which he sometimes used on records.)

Malaueg

The Spanish influence is very prominent in the Malaueg dialect which consists of old Spanish (Castilian) nouns and verbs.


Abrantes Municipality

Later, it became a distinct order, when Pope Nicholas IV (around 1290) released the Order from the jurisdiction of the Castilian grand master in Uclés.

Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd Al-Haqq

The Marinid emir Abu Yusuf defeated a large Castilian army under Nuño González de Lara "el Bueno", adelantado de la frontera, in the pitched Battle of Écija in September.

The Christian king Alfonso X of Castile had thrown his weight behind the Ashqilula - in part because the Nasrids themselves had sheltered Castilian rebels.

Alburquerque

Beatrice, Countess of Alburquerque (1347/1351–1381), the daughter of Portuguese King Peter I and a Castilian noblewoman

Alfonso de Palencia

This chronicle, written in Latin, covers the time from the end of the reign of John II of Castile to the year 1481, including the reign of Henry IV of Castile; Henry IV’s war with Prince Alfonso; the War of the Castilian Succession; the consolidation of Castile and Aragon under Ferdinand and Isabella; and the signing of the Treaty of Alcáçovas.

Álvaro Pires de Castro

As a result, he was the half-brother of the powerful Galician nobleman Fernando Ruiz de Castro, the Castilian queen Juana de Castro (wife of King Peter of Castile) and the controversial Inês de Castro, mistress and consort of King Peter I of Portugal.

Andalusian Spanish

Due to the large population of Andalusia, the Andalusian dialect is the second most spoken dialect in Spain, after the transitional variants between Castilian and Andalusian (for example the one from Madrid).

Andean Spanish

It is influenced principally by Castilian, Canarian and Andalusian Spanish, which is favoured in the cities, while in rural areas and some cities, there is influence of Quechua, Aymara, and other indigenous languages.

António de Saldanha

His original Castilian name is unknown, 'Saldanha' being probably just a reference to the Castilian town of Saldaña, from where he might have been originally from

Arkangel de la Muerte

The wrestler who would become most known as Arkangel made his profesional wrestling debut in 1985, using the ring name "Mr. Cid", an enmascarado (masked) character partially inspired by El Cid, an 11th-century Castilian nobleman.

Arturo Alonso

Arturo Alonso was born on September 18, 1972 in the city of Granada, son of Francis, a bank employee of Castilian origin and son of Estrella Crypto-jewish or Crypto-Judaism descent.

Asturian language

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

Auritz

Burguete – Auritz ("Burguete" in Castilian, "Auritz" in Basque), a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain

Battle of Collejares

One of the more famous Castilian knights that participated in this campaign was Juan de Tovar y Toledo, who was given land and title in part for his actions at Collejares.

Battle of Consuegra

The Battle of Consuegra was a battle of the Spanish Reconquista fought on August 15, 1097 near the village of Consuegra in the province of Castile-La Mancha between the Castilian and Leonese army of Alfonso VI and the Almoravids under Yusuf ibn Tashfin.

Battle of La Rochelle

The Castilian naval historian Cesáreo Fernández Duro claims that the English prisoners amounted to 400 knights and 8,000 soldiers, without counting the killed.

Battle of Río Salado

Abu Hasan ordered a general attack and the Castilian King himself was about to engage in hand-to-hand combat when the Archbishop of Toledo, Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz, grabbed his reins and prevented it.

Battle of Valdejunquera

As a further result of the battle, the fortified site of Clunia, which had been repopulated by the Castilian count Gonzalo Fernández in 912, had to be abandoned.

Beltrán de la Cueva, 1st Duke of Alburquerque

In the War of the Castilian Succession, he supported the Catholic Monarchs against his presumed daughter Juana.

Castile soap

Apothecaries knew the product by the Latin names of sapo hispaniensis (Spanish soap) or of sapo castilliensis (Castilian soap).

Cerrato

Rodrigo de Cerrato (1259–1276), Castilian historian and hagiographer

County of Monzón

The Castilian count García Fernández made a donation of the village of Santiago del Val in the county of Monzón to the monastery of San Isidro de Dueñas in the same county, indicating both his ability to dispose of Monzón's lands and his patronage of the church in Monzón.

Diego López V de Haro

Finally, internal Castilian players such as Diego López V de Haro, Nuño González de Lara, and Juan Núñez II de Lara, amongst others, sowed confusion and anarchy throughout the kingdom.

El Valle de las espadas

Don Sancho (Broderick Crawford) is a despotic 10th century Spanish king who, in cahoots with the invading Moors, has banished handsome Castilian nobleman Fernán González (Espartaco Santoni).

Enrique Enríquez the Younger

In 1336 the Castilian-Leonese troops under the command of Enrique Enríquez the Younger, together with those of Pedro Ponce de León the Elder, Lord of Marchena, and those of Juan Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Coronel, lord of Sanlúcar de Barrameda, defeated the troops of King Alfonso IV of Portugal in the battle of Villanueva de Barcarrota.

Fernão de Loronha

Even the corruption of his name from Loronha to Noronha might not be accidental, but reflect a popular assumption (which he might not have been eager to correct) that he was connected to the Noronha clan, one of the most illustrious noble families in Portugal, of royal Castilian descent (although there is no evidence Loronha had any ties, by blood or marriage, to the Noronhas).

Galsoft Linux

It also sought to have the operating system translated into Castilian and Galician.

García Álvarez

Garci Álvarez de Toledo (died 1370), Castilian grand master of the Order of Santiago

Garcilaso de la Vega

Garci Lasso de la Vega II (d. 1351), a Castilian noble, son of Garci Lasso de la Vega I

Gil Vicente

Though Leonor asked him to give an encore performance of the play at the Christmas matins, Vicente decided to write a new play for the occasion, the Auto Pastoril Castelhano ("Castilian Pastoral Act").

Gonzalo Fernández

Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1453–1515) known as el Gran Capitán, Castilian general and statesman

Gonzalo Fernández of Castile

In 912, he took the main role in the Castilian offensive to the river Duero, settling the old villages of Haza, Clunia and San Esteban de Gormaz.

Gregorio Fernández

He belongs to the Castilian school of sculpture, following the style of other great artists like Alonso Berruguete, Juan de Juni, Pompeyo Leoni and Juan de Arfe.

Guadix

Guadix was the site of the Battle of Guadix in January 1362 in which a small Castilian army was routed by the forces of Muhammed VI, Sultan of Granada.

Gualberto Fabricio de Vagad

In peninsular matters his Aragonese bias is evident, as when he devalues the conquest of Valencia by the Castilian folk hero El Cid (1094) relative to the conquest of the same city by James I of Aragon (1236).

Haly Abenragel

In 1485 at Venice a complete copy of the Old Castilian manuscript was translated into Latin and published by Erhard Ratdolt as Praeclarissimus liber completus in judiciis astrorum ("The very famous complete book on the judgment of the stars").

Irmandiño

They also ordered that none of the castles destroyed by the Irmandiños be rebuilt, and had the Galician monasteries placed under the authority of their respective Castilian orders.

José Nucete Sardi

He translated the 5th volume of the Ministry of Education's 1942 edition of Viaje a las regiones equinocciales del Nuevo Continente(Travel to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent), by Alexander von Humboldt into Castilian.

Literature of Alfonso X

Alfonso also had Libro de ajedrez, dados, y tablas (The Book of Games) translated into Castilian from Arabic and added illustrations with the goal of perfecting the work.

Narón

Both Castilian (Spanish) and Gallego are spoken in this area although statistics on the use and comprehension of both is not known at present.

NoWayOut

No Way Out or NoWayOut is a Catalan (from Barcelona - Spain) pop punk band who sings in Castilian and English.

Raimundo Perellós

Rueda is a rather common name in several places in Spain, but Rueda de Jalón had been always a pivotal center to control and to close, eventually, access by the Castilians to the river Ebro, through the river Jalón, whose sources, located near Medinaceli area, a Castilian area, provided water and fodder for the brisky trade outspots along the river, heavily populated by Muslim farmers and Jewish traders and money changing quarters.

Ramiro Garcés

Ramiro Garcés, Lord of Calahorra (died 1083), Navarrese royalty and Castilian courtier

Salvatierra/Agurain

As a result, the king founded various strongholds or free towns (salvas terras, seguras and villas francas) over the lands of Gipuzkoa and Álava in route to Gascony through the northern Way of St. James, with a view at the same time to fostering Castilian trade.

SS Castilian

The first, ex-Umbilo, was purchased in 1909 from Bullard, King & Co renamed Castilian, 1917 torpedoed and sunk by U-61 off Ireland.


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