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28 unusual facts about Salamanca


Alexis Martínez

Alexis Martínez (born 19 May 1991 in Salamanca, Guanajuato) is a Mexican rifle shooter.

Almendra

Almendra, Salamanca, a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, Spain

Almendra Dam

The Almendra Dam, also known as Villarino Dam, in Salamanca, Spain, interrupts the course of the River Tormes five kilometres from the village from which it takes its name: Almendra (literally, almond).

Benjamin Randell Harris

Many of his companions were killed at this action and the ensuing Battle of Vimeiro, but Harris remained unhurt, continuing the march to Salamanca before becoming trapped in northern Spain with the rest of Sir John Moore's army.

Bletonesii

The Bletonesii were one of the pre-Roman Celtic peoples of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania, modern Spain and Portugal), dwelling around the city of Bletisa, or modern Ledesma in the province of Salamanca (Spain).

Calva

It has roots going back to pre-Roman times, being developed by the Celtiberians who lived in the modern-day provinces of Ávila, Salamanca, and Zamora.

Churrigueresque

Parroquia Antigua in Salamanca, Guanajuato, founded on August 24, 1603, it completed the construction of the project in the year 1690, and the Churrigueresque facade in 1740.

Claude François Ferey

At the end of the Battle of Salamanca his division held off the victorious Anglo-Portuguese, while the rest of the army escaped.

At the Battle of Salamanca on 22 July 1812, Ferey commanded the 3rd Division of the Army of Portugal, with 5,689 men in nine battalions and attached artillery.

Ennerdale Water

Wild Ennerdale celebrated its 10th anniversary in June 2013, and attended the World Wilderness Congress in Salamanca, Spain in October of that year.

Fernando Ponce de Cabrera el Mayor

Early in 1161, Ferdinand, prompted by fear that Afonso I of Portugal was planning an invasion, bestowed the tenencias (tenancies-in-chief) of Ciudad Rodrigo and Ledesma on Ponce, who in turn gave the latter to his son Fernando.

François Vatable

The Salamanca theologians, with the authorization of the Spanish Inquisition, issued a new thoroughly-revised edition of them in their Latin Bible of 1584.

Jeremías

During 2003, he appeared live in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla, Cordova, Bilbao, Zaragoza, Salamanca, Canary Islands, among others, having received a great acclamation from the Spanish public as well as music critics in Spain.

Juan Bautista de Lezana

He studied philosophy at Toledo, theology at Salamanca, partly at the college of the order, partly at the university under Juan Marquez, and finally at Alcalá under Luis de Montesion.

La Hoya

La Hoya, Salamanca, a small municipality of Salamanca province, Spain

Maurice Ewens

Newport also wrote a manuscript treatise, De Scientiâ Dei, preserved in the library at Salamanca; and George Oliver conjectured that he was the author of A Golden Censer full with the pretious Incense to the Praisers of Saints, Paris, 1654, dedicated to Queen Henrietta Maria.

Miguel José de Azanza, Duke of Santa Fe

In 1788 he was corregidor of Salamanca, and the following year intendant of the army in Valencia.

Mount Arapiles

He named the landmark after the Arapiles hills near Salamanca, Spain, where the Battle of Salamanca took place, in which Mitchell had seen action.

Pres Romanillos

In 2007 Romanillos travelled to Salamanca, Spain, where he assisted in setting up the Enne Animation Studio along with fellow animation artist Scott Johnston.

Pyneeandee

Pyneeandee is a Spanish, Dutch and French surname originating from the Spanish provinces Cáceres and Salamanca, the French province Languedoc and the Dutch province of North Brabant.

Rodrigo de Castro Osorio

He studied canon law at Salamanca, where his brother, Pedro de Castro Lemos, who later became bishop of Cuenca (1553–1561), was named cardinal on 15 December 1583, by Gregory XIII.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of León

The Diocese of Irapuato includes the municipalities of Abasolo, Cuerámaro, Huanímaro, Irapuato, Jaral del Progreso, Pénjamo, Pueblo Nuevo, Salamanca, and Valle de Santiago.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Jackson

In 1787, three Spanish priests, Fathers McKenna, White, and Savage, arrived at Natchez from Salamanca and erected three missions in the vicinity.

Salamanca, Chile

Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Salamanca is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Mrs. Adriana Muñoz (PDC) and Mr. Luis Lemus (Ind.) as part of the 9th electoral district, (together with Combarbalá, Punitaqui, Monte Patria, Illapel, Los Vilos, Canela).

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris

This is followed by a description of the Battle of Vimeiro where he was again heavily engaged and follows the army on the ensuing march to Salamanca and the clash with the French at Sahagún.

Tomas de Lemos

The controversy aroused in 1588 by the publication of Luis Molina's work Concordia liberi arbitrii cum gratiae donis, between the Dominicans and Jesuits, had reached a heated and turbulent stage not only at Valladolid but also at Salamanca, Cordoba, Zaragoza, and other cities of Spain.

Villaflores

Villaflores, Salamanca, a municipality in the province of Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain.

Vincenzo Comnen

After completing his studies in the Spanish city of Salamanca he went to Rome and later to Naples where he became a professor of philosophy.


Alphonso de Spina

Thought by many to be a convert from Judaism, Alphonso de Spina was for many years superior of the House of Studies of the Friars Minor at Salamanca, and in 1491 was created Bishop of Thermopylae in Greece.

Asturian language

Western Asturian, is a linguistic variety in Western Asturian lands between the rivers Navia and Nalón, and western provinces of León, where is called Leonese as endonym, Zamora and Salamanca.

Benito Arias Montano

León de Castro, professor of Oriental languages at Salamanca, to whose translation of the Vulgate Arias had opposed the original Hebrew text, denounced Arias to the Roman, and later to the Spanish Inquisition for having altered the Biblical text, making too liberal use of the rabbinical writings, in disregard of the decree of the Council of Trent concerning the authenticity of the Vulgate, and confirming the Jews in their beliefs by his Chaldaic paraphrases.

Bexar

Béxar, a former spelling of Béjar, a city in the province of Salamanca in western Spain

Catholic University of Ávila

The Institute offers a Catholic mysticism course, and through weekend trips, allows students to visit the cities of Segovia, Salamanca, Madrid, as well as important Carmelite sites like Fontiveros and Alba de Tormes.

Convento de San Esteban, Salamanca

San Esteban is also the canonical seat of the Dominican Fraternity of Stmo Christ of the Good Death which makes its penitential procession in Salamanca at dawn on Good Friday, and the Royal and Pontifical Sacrament Confraternity of Mary, Mother of God of the Rosary and St. Pius V fraternity of glory, restarted recently after years of inactivity.

Davey Street, Hobart

It is four-lane for almost all of its length, providing access to Salamanca, Sandy Bay and the Southern Outlet to Kingston and Huonville.

Domingo Patricio Meagher

He became a professor of philosophy at the University of Santiago and professor of theology at the universities of Salamanca and Valladolid.

Dulzaina

The instrument is deeply rooted in the folklore of Burgos, Segovia, Soria, in some areas of Ávila, Madrid, Guadalajara, Cuenca, León and Salamanca, less extended in the Basque Autonomous Community and widely used in Navarre and La Rioja.

Edmond Paris

After he left Sorbonne where he was a student, he completed his studies in various parts of the world, such as Rome, Geneva, Salamanca, and Montreal.

Felipe Maillo Salgado

Graduated in Spanish Philology and Geography & History by Salamanca University (1978) and in Semitic Philology by University of Granada (1979), earning a doctorate in Spanish Philology at Salamanca University by 1981.

General Archive of the Spanish Civil War

The Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica plans to increase the number of documents held at Salamanca by transferring relevant items from the Archivo General de la Administración, Alcalá de Henares.

Giovanni Botero

Grice-Hutchinson, Marjorie, The School of Salamanca: Readings in Spanish Monetary Theory, 1544 - 1605.

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Born οn June 15, 1948 in Würzburg, Germany, Gumbrecht received his education in Paris, Munich, Regensburg, Salamanca, Pavia and Konstanz, receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Konstanz in 1971 where he was also an assistant professor from 1971 to 1974.

Illapel

Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Illapel is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Mrs. Adriana Muñoz (PDC) and Mr. Luis Lemus (Ind.) as part of the 9th electoral district, (together with Combarbalá, Punitaqui, Monte Patria, Salamanca, Los Vilos, Canela).

James Vincent Cleary

He also studied at Salamanca in Spain before returning to Ireland to become a Professor in St. John's College, Waterford, where he also served as president of the college from 1873-76 (his Brother patrick also a priest served as the Seminary president as previously).

Jean Gabriel Marchand

Marchand evacuated his headquarters at Salamanca and retired north to Toro where François Étienne de Kellermann joined him with a dragoon division and some infantry.

Joanna Lindén

She also attended the University of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain and at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru in Lima, Peru as an exchange student.

Joseph Toal

After ordination he served in Daliburgh and Ardkenneth on South Uist, Campbeltown and Benbecula before being appointed spiritual director at the Royal Scots College in Salamanca, Spain, in 1999.

Juan Martínez de Ripalda

According to Southwell, he taught philosophy at Monforte, theology at Salamanca, and was called from there to the Imperial College of Madrid, where, by royal decree, he taught moral theology.

La Zarza

La Zarza de Pumareda, a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain

Martha Batiz

In 1996 she was the first Mexican to ever be awarded an accesit in the International Short-story Contest "Miguel de Unamuno" in Salamanca, Spain, where her story competed against 1,708 entries from Latin America and Spain.

Miguel Ángel García Tébar

He was attended by doctors of both teams, who revived him with cardiac massage and the use of a defibrillator; he left the stadium in a stable condition, subsequently undergoing tests at the Salamanca University Hospital.

Olegario González de Cardedal

As Chair of Theology at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain, a position he still holds, he took part in the third session of the Second Vatican Council and in the International Theological Conference.

Palacios del Arzobispo

Palacios del Arzobispo (Spanish for "Palaces of the Archbishop") is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca in western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.

Perizonius

Special interest attaches to his edition of the Minerva sive de causis linguae latinae (Salamanca: Renaut, 1587) of Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas or El Brocense (ed. C. L. Bauer, 1793–1801), one of the last developments of the study of Latin grammar in its pre-scientific stage, when the phenomena of language were still regarded as for the most part disconnected, conventional or fortuitous.

Punitaqui

Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Punitaqui is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Mrs. Adriana Muñoz (PDC) and Mr. Luis Lemus (Ind.) as part of the 9th electoral district, (together with Combarbalá, Monte Patria, Illapel, Salamanca, Los Vilos, Canela).

Royal Hobart Showground

The venue of the Royal Hobart Show has varied over the past 184 years and has included Salamanca Place, Bridgewater, New Town, Tattersalls Park and even the Hobart Town Hall.

Salmanticenses

Salmanticenses and Complutenses, Discalced Carmelites lecturing and publishing ecclesiastical courses in Salamanca viz.

San Germán, Puerto Rico

A letter sent to Spain's king Philip II mentions a city with the names of Nueva Salamanca and San Germán.

Sierra de Gredos

The Sierra de Gredos is a mountain range in central Spain that is located in the provinces of Ávila, Salamanca, Cáceres, Madrid, and Toledo.

Veguillas

Las Veguillas, a town in the province of Salamanca, Castile-León