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Alegría (surname)
Alegría is a Spanish surname native of the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, Spain. While some authors place the origin of this lineage in Navarre and Vitoria-Gasteiz, Vitoria , most writers take as true that its origin comes from the natives of Alegia, Alegría de Oria, district of Tolosa, Spain, Tolosa, in the province of Gipuzkoa, Guipuzkoa. Branches from the very old houses of the Basque Country and Navarre went to other places in Spain, as some of their knights went to Andalusia to serve the Catholic Monarchs in the conquest of Granada. Others went to Murcia and settled in the town of Totana. The surname then spread to Latin America mostly coming from Navarra. Notable people with the surname include: *Alexander Alegría (born 1992), Spanish footballer *María Alegria Continente (born 1977), Spanish politician *Ciro Alegría (1909–1967), Peruvian journalist, novelist and politician *Michael López-Alegría, Spanish-American astronaut *Claribel Alegría (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basque Country (autonomous Community)
The Basque Country (; eu, Euskadi ; es, País Vasco ), also called Basque Autonomous Community ( eu, Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa, links=no, EAE; es, Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco, links=no, CAPV), is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. It includes the Provinces of Spain, provinces (and historical territories) of Álava, Biscay, and Gipuzkoa, located in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, bordering on the autonomous communities of Cantabria, Castile and León, La Rioja (Spain), La Rioja, and Navarre, and the Regions of France, French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The Basque Country or Basque Autonomous Community is enshrined as a 'Nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality' within the Spanish State in Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country, its 1979 statute of autonomy, pursuant to the administrative acquis laid out in the Spanish Constitution of 1978, 1978 Spanish Constitution. The statute provides the legal framework for the develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |