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8 unusual facts about Ourense


Albert Stroni

In the following summer, Stroni moved to Spain, where he would spend most of his remaining years as a footballer: he started with SD Compostela but, because of burocratic reasons, ended not playing a single league match for the club, after which he moved to Galician neighbours CD Ourense, also in the second division, and also not managing to appear officially.

Communist Party of National Liberation

The 3rd National Assembly of BNG, held in Carballiño (Ourense) in 1987, expelled PCLN on the grounds that the party had supported Herri Batasuna in elections to the European Parliament.

Hydatius

Hydatius was born around the year 400 in the environs of Civitas Lemica, a Roman town near modern Xinzo de Limia in the Spanish Galician province of Ourense.

José Luis Abadín

José Luis Abadín Iglesias (born 13 March 1987 in Ourense) is a Spanish racing driver currently competing in the FIA Formula Two Championship.

Ourense

Three highway and one railroad bridge cross the river in addition to the famous Roman bridge, Ponte Vella, which is now closed to vehicle traffic.

Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes

As he and his wife died childless, the title passed to one of her relatives, Manuel de Acevedo y Zúñiga, 6th Count of Monterrey, Ourense, Spain, Grandee of Spain by king Philip IV of Spain on 11 July 1628, Viceroy of Naples, 1631–1637.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Ourense

The Bishop of Ourense has his cathedra (Latin, "chair") in the Catedral de la Virgen Madre de los Milagros in Ourense and his jurisdiction covers all the 28 districts and 735 parishes of the Province of Ourense.

Royalist attack on Chaves

The companies that still remained formed nine groups, some staying near Xinzo de Limia and Ourense, but the bulk of the column concentrated nearer the border in Verín.


Caldelas

Castro Caldelas, a municipality in the province of Ourense, Galicia, Spain.

Terra de Caldelas, a comarca in the province of Ourense, Galicia, Spain.

Carballeda

Carballeda de Valdeorras, municipality in Ourense Province, Galicia, Spain

Carballeda de Avia, municipality in Ourense Province, Galicia, Spain

Carlos Núñez Muñoz

He collaborated with Liam O'Flynn on The Piper's Call to perform Muiñeira de Poio / Muiñeira de Ourense. His most renowned album was 1996's A Irmandade Das Estrelas, which sold an unprecedented 100,000 copies, and included collaborations with Nightnoise, Luz Casal, Tino di Geraldo, Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill and Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, Kepa Junkera, Ry Cooder, The Chieftains, and Dulce Pontes.

Domecelle

Domecelle is a village in the municipality of San Xoán de Río in Ourense in the Galicia region of north-west Spain.

Hyacinthoides paivae

Hyacinthoides paivae is endemic to the north-western part of the Iberian Peninsula, including western parts of Galicia (A Coruña, Ourense and Pontevedra provinces) and north-western parts of Portugal (Beira Litoral, Douro Litoral, Minho and Trás-os-Montes provinces).

José Leite de Vasconcelos

In 1910 Miuçalhas gallegas was published; drawing attention to various aspects of Galician studies, it contained a brief discourse on the linguistic boundary between Fala and Galician, corresponding to Ribadavia, Ferreiros and San Miguel de Lobios in Ourense, much of Hermisende and Zamora—although the last of these is, strictly speaking, a separated or transmontane Fala.

Manuel de Acevedo y Zúñiga

He was the son of Gaspar de Zúñiga, 5th Count of Monterrey, (Monterrei, Ourense, Spain, 1560–1606), founder of the City of Monterrey, Viceroy of Mexico, 1595–1603, Viceroy of Peru, 1604–1606) and Inés de Velasco y Aragón, daughter of Iñigo Fernández de Velasco, 4th Duke of Frías.

Paderne

:*Paderne de Allariz, a municipality in the province of Ourense, Galicia

Pobra

Sobrado, A Pobra de Trives (San Salvador), parish in A Pobra de Trives municipality in Ourense in the Galicia region of north-west Spain

A Pobra de Trives, municipality in Ourense (province) in the Galicia region of north-west Spain

Trives

Sobrado, A Pobra de Trives (San Salvador), a parish in A Pobra de Trives municipality in Ourense in the Galicia region of north-west Spain


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