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18 unusual facts about Huesca


Aleksandra Samusenko

My Balandin's submachine gunner Kolka... approached her and says: "... I saw you already under Huesca... ¡No pasarán!" And she replies: "I don't remember you" ...

Aratorés

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

Camillo Berneri

With Carlo Rosselli, Berneri organized the first column of Italian volunteers to fight in the Spanish Civil War against Francisco Franco's attempted coup, where he took part in the battles of Monte Pelado and Huesca (in Aragon) together with the Spanish anarchists of Francisco Ascaso Column and the Italians of the Matteotti Battalion.

Carlos Lapetra

He settled in Huesca subsequently, working in directorial capacities with SD Huesca and the Spanish national team and dying on 24 December 1995 at the age of 57, due to cancer.

Coming Up for Air

He was wounded in the throat in May 1937, by a Fascist sniper at Huesca.

Dulzaina

In the region of Aragon, especially in the town of Huesca, the dulzaina is played along with gaitas de boto, regional bagpipes, and sometimes drums.

García Íñiguez of Pamplona

In 870, García formed an alliance with the Muslim rebel Amrūs ibn Umar ibn Amrūs, who had killed Garcia's nephew Mūsā ibn Galindo of Huesca, and the next year was apparently in a new alliance with the sons of Mūsā ibn Mūsā, now in rebellion against Córdoba.

Goram and Vincent

St Vincent might also have been known in Bristol relatively early through the city’s wine trade with Portugal and Spain (he was born in Huesca, lived and worked in Zaragoza, and is patron saint of Lisbon and of vintners).

Iberian gauge

Although the 22 km from Tardienta to Huesca (part of a branch from the Madrid to Barcelona high-speed line) has been reconstructed as mixed Iberic and standard gauge, in general the interface between the two gauges in Spain is dealt with by means of gauge-changing installations, which can adjust the gauge of appropriately designed wheelsets on the move.

Ibn al-Mughallis

Ibn al-Mughallis was supposedly instrumental in the removal of the Banu Salama tribe of Arabs from Huesca in the Marca Hispanica.

Jerry Trebotic

However, he does appear in all four of the videos that were shot for the album, and he will be rejoining the band for a performance at the Festival Periferias in Huesca, Spain on October 29, 2005 and will continue to play with the band for local shows in the greater Los Angeles area.

Luigi Bertoni

Bertoni fought on the Huesca front with Italian comrades during the Spanish Revolution and was, with Emma Goldman, one of the outspoken critics of anarchist participation in the Republican government after the Spanish Civil War.

My Country Right or Left

In 1937, he spent six months on a quiet part of the front at Huesca during the Spanish Civil War.

Psilocybe hispanica

The species was described by Mexican mycologist Gastón Guzmán in a 2000 publication, based on specimens collected by Ignacio Seral Bozal near Huesca in northern Spain in 1995.

Pyrenean ibex

From 1910 onwards, their numbers never rose above 40, and the subspecies was found only in a small part of Ordesa National Park, in Huesca.

Richard Heslop

The film won first prize at the Huesca short film festival in Spain and was shown at Edinburgh Film Festival and ICA "Synchronization of the Senses Festival."

Roda de Isábena

Roda d'Isàvena is a village in the municipality of Isàvena, in the region of Ribagorça, in the province of Huesca, Spain.

Simcha of Rome

After a prolonged search, he found in Huesca the commentary on the first three orders, and shortly afterward the Arabic original of the commentary on the first five orders.


Almunia

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

Antonio Bisquert

In his works, religious and subject always to a clientele that, in his case, it seems exclusively ecclesiastical and intended for the decoration of religious buildings, such as the great pictorial cycles of the life of San Lorenzo for your church or Huesca of the Life of St. Vincent for San Gil in Zaragoza, formerly attributed to Jusepe Martínez, can stand a manifest good taste for the representation of everyday objects and supporting details.

Aureolus of Aragon

Between 798 and 802 the Franks established several positions in the zone: Bahlul Ibn Marzuq revolted in Zaragoza against the central government of Muslim Al-Andalus in 798, and in 800 conquered Huesca from the Banu Salama.

Banu Qasi

Muhammad ibn Lubb tested his power against the new emirs, and they responded by again trying to balance Banu Qasi power in the region, giving Zaragoza to the rival Tujibids, and Huesca to Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik al-Tawil of the Muladi Banu Shabrit clan.

Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola

He studied at Huesca, took orders, and was presented to the rectory of Villahermosa in 1588.

Ensemble XXI

Soloists of prestigious orchestras as the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, have been invited to work with Ensemble XXI on its International Music Course developed in the town of Peralta de la Sal, Huesca province, in Aragon; and on Master Classes held in the Conservatory of Music "Miguel Fleta" from Monzón.

Gurrea

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

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

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).

Juan Huarte de San Juan

He was born at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (Lower Navarre) toward the end of 1529 or beginning of 1530, and was educated, first, at the university of Huesca.

Litera

La Litera, comarca (administrative division) in Huesca, Aragon, Spain

Mallos

Mallos de Riglos, a set of rock formations in Huesca province in Spain

Ribera del Gállego-Cinco Villas

Ribera del Gállego-Cinco Villas is a Spanish geographical indication for Vino de la Tierra wines located in the wine-producing areas of Ribera del Gállego and the Cinco Villas, in the provinces of Huesca and Zaragoza, in the autonomous region of Aragón, Spain.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Huesca

At the same time Sancho II was appointed Bishop of Huesca, and hastened to request the Pope Alexander II to confirm the decisions of the council.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Jaca

At the same time Sancho was appointed Bishop of Huesca (1058–1075), and hastened to request the Pope Alexander II to confirm the decisions of the council.