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unusual facts about Mallorca



1998–99 S.S. Lazio season

Lazio's best moment of the 1998-99 season came when they beat Mallorca 2-1 at Villa Park in Birmingham in the 1999 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final, following goals by Vieri and Pavel Nedvěd.

Alcúdia

There are remains of a Roman town just outside the medieval town walls, in front of the Church of St. Jaume, belonging to the ancient city of Pollentia (see also the Italian Pollentia).

Antoni Serra Serra

He was in the Convent of Saint Francis of Pauoa of Palma and was a Reader of philosophy and theology, Visitor, Mallorca's Order of Minims General and Provincial Vicar Inquisition Qualifier; Postulator in 1739 of the cause of beatification of Catherine Thomas.

Ardian Đokaj

Djokaj played for FK Dečić, FK Budućnost Podgorica, FK Mladost Podgorica, Mallorca, Lleida, Obilić, OFK Beograd, Red Star Belgrade, Trabzonspor, Ankaraspor, TuS Koblenz and TSV 1860 München before returning to Montenegro to his former club Budućnost.

Baroque guitar

Antoni Pizà: Francesc Guerau i el seu temps (Palma de Mallorca: Govern de les Illes Balears, Conselleria d'Educació i Cultura, Direcció General de Cultura, Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics, 2000).

Battle of Mas Deu

His deputy was Pedro Mendinueta y Múzquiz and the force included four battalions of Royal Guards and one battalion each of the Mallorca Line Infantry and Volunteers of Catalonia Light Infantry Regiments, and Andalusian artillery.

C.D.Real Mallorca

C.D. Real Mallorca is a Honduran soccer club based in La Ceiba, Honduras.

Crescas

Abraham Cresques (? – 1387), a Jewish cartographer from Palma de Mallorca

Dudu Aouate

In December 2009, during a match between Osasuna and Mallorca, Aouate was subjected to antisemitic chants coming from the Navarrese supporters – additionally, they waved Palestinian flags and called him "a murderer".

Enerkem

Dr. Esteban Chornet (Ph.D. from Lehigh University; Professor Emeritus from Sherbrooke University) conceived the idea for a waste-conversion technology after being inspired by his father, who used wood waste from his sawmill to make electricity in the late 1930s in Mallorca, Spain.

Federación Española de Guidismo

The Escoltes i Guies de Mallorca (EGM; Scouts and Guides of Mallorca) serves two Scout and Guide groups on Majorca.

Guten Morgen, Mallorca

Guten Morgen, Mallorca (translated: Good Morning, Majorca) was a German television series set on the island of Majorca.

His Highness the Prince

The found objects, features traditional objects from the peasant environment of Montroig or Mallorca, are transformed into sculptures.

Ibiza Wall Lizard

It has been introduced to Muella de Palma (Mallorca), Barcelona (where it has died out), the town of Aleria in southern Spain and the island of Gaztelugatxe in northern Spain.

Isa Jank

She first reappeared in June 2011 and was part of a six-months special that was filmed on the Spanish island Mallorca, before joining her colleagues in Cologne.

John Frederick Bateman

In 1955 a street in Sa Pobla, Mallorca was given the name Bateman commemorating his works in Albufera de Mallorca.

Manises UFO incident

Flight JK-297 had taken off from Salzburg (Austria) with 109 passengers on board, and had made a refuelling stop on the island Mallorca before setting course towards Las Palmas.

Manuel Freire de Andrade

He later participated in a campaign against Portugal in Arronches, before being assigned to training in Mallorca.

Nóos case

Jaume Matas i Palou (Palma de Mallorca, 1956), ex Balearic president.

Orange Express

the Ferrocarril de Sóller, an interurban railway on the Spanish island of Mallorca

Palma Arena

On May 2, 2007 it staged the 'Battle of Surfaces' tennis match which saw Mallorca local and World No. 2 Rafael Nadal take on World No. 1 Roger Federer.

Ramón Tusquets y Maignon

In 1886, he painted five large canvas on Catalan history for the residence of Miguel Boada (Proclamation of the Prince of Viana, Fiveller and Ferdinand of Antequera, Embarcation of Jaime I to Mallorca, Roger de Lluria and the son of the count of Anjou y The Countess of Urgell asking for grace from the Count of Antequera).

Spring break

Mykonos, Umag, and other European party destinations such as Ibiza, Mallorca, Rimini, Lloret de Mar, Siófok, Crimea, and Sunny Beach are increasingly getting popular for international spring break guests.

Stéphane Antiga

In his career he has played for the teams of Paris UC (France), Paris Volley (France), Bre Banca Cuneo (Italy) Portol Mallorca (Spain), Skra Bełchatów and Delecta Bydgoszcz (both Poland).

The Song of the Sibyl

Today the performer is either a boy or a girl, and increasingly more places in the Catalan-speaking world are taking up the tradition again, such that in 2010, it will be performed not only in the majority of municipalities on Mallorca and in L'Alguer (Sardinia), but also in the following municipalities of Catalonia and the Valencian Country: Barcelona (at 3 different churches), Gandia, Lleida, Ontinyent, Sueca, Vic and others.

The Star of Valencia

It was made in Mallorca, at the same time as a French-language version L'étoile de Valencia directed by Serge de Poligny.

Yeísmo

A similar effect took place in the local name of the island of Majorca: Mallorca is a continental Catalan hypercorrection of the earlier Maiorca.


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