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4 unusual facts about valencian


Gioffre Borgia

Gioffre de Candia Borgia, also known as Goffredo, in Italian, or Jofré Borja in Valencian, (1482–1518) was the youngest son of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei, and the youngest brother of Cesare Borgia, Giovanni Borgia, and Lucrezia Borgia.

Moratalaz

Valencian Antonio Galbis holds the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest paella that 100,000 people in Moratalaz enjoyed in 2001.

Raspall singles championship

The Campionat Individual de Raspall (Valencian for Raspall Singles Championship) is the Valencian pilota Raspall modality singles league played by professional pilotaris.

Raspall team championship

The Campionat per Equips de Raspall (Valencian for Team Raspall Championship) is the Valencian pilota Raspall modality league played by professional pilotaris.


Agullo

Guillem Agulló i Salvador, a Valencian member of the independentist political organization Maulets

Alcoy

Alcoy, Spain (Alcoi in Valencian), city in the province of Alicante, Spain

Alqueria

In the case of the Valencian Community, Joan Fuster, in his book called El País Valenciano, makes an extensive reference to the Valencian alquerías.

Badalona

The most important celebration takes place the day before Saint Anastasi Day when, at night, people gather at the maritime promenade to participate in the popular Cremada del Dimoni (Devil-Burning)--similar to the famous Valencian Falles.

Boston Public Library, McKim Building

McKim also exploited up-to-date building technology, as the library represents one of the first major applications, in the United States, of the system of thin tile vaults (or catalan vaults) exported from the Catalan architectural tradition by the valencian Rafael Guastavino.

Capella de Ministrers

Along with another Valencian early music group Victoria Musicae directed by Josep R. Gil-Tàrrega, the Capella de Ministrers receives significant local government support from the Valencian Community (la Generalitat Valenciana).

Capella de Ministrers is an early music group formed in 1987 in Valencia, Spain by its director, the Valencian musicologist Carles Magraner (viola da gamba).

Carrer d'Ausiàs Marc, Barcelona

Carrer d'Ausiàs Marc (sometimes written as Ausiàs March, see the Pompeu Fabra article for more information on spelling) is a street in Eixample, Barcelona, named after the Valencian poet of the same name.

Espadella

Espadella, a 968 m high peak, highest point of the Serra de l'Espadella range in the Baix Maestrat comarca, Valencian Community, Spain.

Espadilla, a municipality in the Alt Millars comarca, Valencian Community, Spain.

Francisco de Paula de Borbón y Castellví

Francisco de Paula was born at Toulouse, France third child of Infante Enrique, Duke of Seville (1823–1870), (son of Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain and Princess Luisa Carlotta of Naples and Sicily) and his wife, Elena María de Castellví y Shelly (1821–1863), (daughter of Antonio de Padua de Castellví y Fernández de Córdoba, Count of Castellá and Margarita Shelly) his mother was of Valencian and Irish ancestry.

Guastavino

Rafael Guastavino (1842–1908), Valencian Spanish architect and builder

Guillem de Copons

In 1418 he dedicated the Valencian sponsor Pere d'Artés his Catalan version of Brunetto Latini's Treasure, written in French, that included Aristotle's Ethics.

Guillem de Copons (?, segle XIV — ?, segle XV) was a writer and diplomat, possibly of Valencian origin, that made some translations into Catalan from some important ancient Greece, ancient Rome and the European Middle Ages literary works.

Hispano-Moresque ware

At least one authority, Alan Caiger-Smith, excludes this pottery from the term "Hispano-Moresque", but most who use the term at all use it to include Malaga and Andalucian wares from the Islamic period as well as the Valencian pottery.

Juan Bautista Cabanilles

Juan Bautista José Cabanilles (also Juan Bautista Josep, Valencian: Joan) (6 September 1644 in Algemesí near Valencia – 29 April 1712 in Valencia) was a Spanish organist and composer at Valencia Cathedral.

L'Horta

Horta of Valencia, a horticultural region in Central Valencia (see also horta) and a historic comarca of the Valencian Community.

La Mata

La Mata de Morella, a town in Ports, Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain

Lliga Valenciana

The Lliga Valenciana (in English, Valencian League) is a basketball competition between the best teams of the Valencian Community.

Luis de Milán

His last publication, El cortesano (1561), modeled on Il Cortegiano by Baldassare Castiglione, gives a vivid and entertaining picture of life in the Valencian ducal court.

Manuel Sanchis

Manuel Sanchis i Guarner, Valencian Spanish philologist, historian and writer

Marcelino Guerra

Marcelino died in El Campello, a coastal town within the Valencian community in Alicante, Spain in June of 1996.

Millars

Millars or Millares town in the comarca of Canal de Navarrés, Valencian Community

Narrow gauge railways in Spain

FGV (Valencian regional government railways) around the city of Valencia, as well as along the Costa Blanca from Alicante to Denia

Nosaltres, els valencians

The book was also criticized by some Valencian nationalists as well, who considered that Fuster took the Catalan nationalist model without adjusting it to the reality of what soon after (1982) became the present Valencian Community with the passing of the Valencian Statute of Autonomy.

Ortifus

He has collaborated with the University of Valencia, the Polytechnic University of Valencia, the Generalitat Valenciana and The Pharmaceutical College of Valencia (for whose publication, Cuadernos de Farmática, he draws from time to time.) He has also been called upon on a number of occasions by the Valencian City Council to design monuments for the festival of Falles.

Pinet

Pinet, Valencia, a municipality in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain

Salvador Espriu

The Valencian songwriter and singer Raimon has set to music Espriu's poems including Les cançons de la roda del temps (Songs on the Passing of Time), Inici de càntic en el temple (Beginning of the Canticle in the Temple) and Indesinenter.

Selectividad

#Galician, Catalan or Valencian and Basque are also common subjects in Galicia; Catalonia and Balearic Islands, Valencia; and the Basque Country, respectively.

#Galician, Catalan, Valencian and Basque are also common subjects in Galicia; Catalonia and Balearic Islands, Valencia; and the Basque Country, respectively

Valencian language controversy

In May 2006, the Spanish Supreme Court revoked the instruction ordered by the Valencian Education Department in 1995, which had established that validation of Catalan language qualifications issued by either the Catalan or Balearic autonomous governments no longer applied in the Valencian Community.

The Valencian sociolinguist Rafael Ninyoles i Monllor coined the term linguistic conflict by the end of the 1960s for referring to certain diglossic situations, such as the Valencian one.

Vicente González

Vicente González Lizondo (1942-1996), Spanish politician and co-founder of the regional party Valencian Union


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