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Amaya (Spanish-language Name)
Amaya is a female given name and surname of Spanish origins, derived from the village of Amaya and its neighboring mountain in Castile and León, Spain.Patrick Hanks, ''Dictionary of American Family Names'' (2003), p. 32. The name of the village, in turn, has Indo-European roots and means "am (ma)" or "mother". The suffix io-ia is also used to form action names or toponyms, implying that the meaning of Amaya or Amaia is "mother city", as it will be called later, "the capital". Other hypothesis is that the name derived from the Proto-Basque or Basque word , meaning "the end".Justin Cord Hayes, ''The Terrible Meanings of Names'' (2013), p. 14. Variations include Amaia, Amayah, Ammaya, and Amya. Amaya was one of the main villages of the Cantabri Celtic tribes, and played a key role in the Cantabrian wars during the Roman conquest of Hispania, and later, during the Visigothic Kingdom, as the capital of the Duchy of Cantabria. In the first stages of the Reconquista, the city was part of ...
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Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or ''gentile name, gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ...
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Amaya O Los Vascos En El Siglo VIII
''Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII'' (''Amaya, or the Basques in the 8th century'') is a Romantic historical novel published in 1877 (in the magazine '' Ciencia cristiana'') and in 1879 (as a book) by Francisco Navarro-Villoslada, a noted novel by a Navarrese author.''Saltus y ager vasconum. Cultura y política en Navarra (1870-1960)''. MainlChapter 3 Thesis by Iñaki Iriarte López, 11 December 1998. Includes a summary and analysis of some aspects of the novel. The story is placed during the invasion of Visigothic Spain by the Moors. Plot summary Mixing history and legend, it presents a situation in which pagan and Christianized Basques unite under the first king of Navarre and ally with Pelayo, the first king of Asturias to defend Catholic Iberia against the invading Muslims. Amaya is a Christian noblewoman, daughter of a Basque woman and Ranimiro, the ruthless Visigoth general. She is a niece to pagan leader Amagoya, who prefers her other pagan niece as heiress to the ...
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Maja Keuc
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Amaya Alonso
Amaya Alonso Álvarez (born 12 January 1989) is a Spanish Paralympic swimmer who has represented her counter at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Paralympics. Personal Alonso was born in 1989 in Valladolid. She has almost no vision in her right eye, and only around 10% in her left. Swimming Alonso is a member of C.N. Gimnasio Valladolid. In 2005, when Alonso was 16 years old, she was a member of Club El Refugio de Huerta del Rey. At the time, she was starting to specialize in the 200 meter freestyle event. That year, she competed in the Spanish national championships, finishing high enough to qualify for a competition in Colorado Springs. At the 2007 IBSA World Games, she won a gold medal. She competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, finishing eighth in the 200 meter freestyle. In 2009, Alonso competed at the Interautonómico Spring Championship for the Blind and Visually Impaired where the S12 swimmer set a world record in the 400 meters freestyle event. In doing so, she qualifie ...
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Amaya Gastaminza
Amaya Gastaminza Ganuza (born 27 February 1991) is a Spanish professional basketball player. She plays for Hondarribia-Irún and Spain women's national basketball team The Spain women's national basketball team ( es, Selección Española de Baloncesto Femenina) represents Spain in international women's basketball competition, and are regulated by the Spanish Basketball Federation, the governing body for baske .... She has represented several junior teams in European competitions. She won EuroLeague Women 2010–11 with Perfumerías Avenida Baloncesto. References External links Amaya Gastaminzaat FIBA Europe * * * 1991 births Living people Spanish women's basketball players Spanish women's 3x3 basketball players Sportspeople from Pamplona Small forwards {{Spain-basketball-bio-stub ...
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Amaya Valdemoro
Amaya Valdemoro Madariaga (born August 18, 1976, in Alcobendas, Community of Madrid) is a Spanish former basketball player. She won three Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) championship rings with the Houston Comets, one EuroLeague with Dorna Godella, as well as eight Spanish leagues and one Russian Premier League. She was the Russian League Player of the Year in 2006. With the national team she competed in two Olympic Games, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. won a bronze medal at the 2010 FIBA World Championship and won 5 medals at EuroBasket women, including a gold medal at the 2013 EuroBasket Women. Club career 1992-1998 Spanish clubs She made her debut in the Spanish league in 1992, at only 16 years of age, with Dorna Godella, winning the national league and the 1992–93 Euroleague. In the 1993–1994 season, she won the league, the cup and was Euroleague runner-up. With her following club, Pool Getafe she won back-to-back league and cup titles in 199 ...
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Amaya Forch
Amaya Forch Barry (born 5 March 1972) is a Chilean actress and pop singer known for making appearances on various Chilean television programs. After playing in a number of television and theatre productions, Forch began to venture into singing. At the Viña del Mar International Song Festival, she sang alongside David Hasselhoff. In 2002, Forch played Carmela in a production of ''La pérgola de las flores'' and also joined the talent show ''Rojo'' as a judge. In 2004, she played in the Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) telenovela ' and a production of ''Man of La Mancha'' in 2009. That same year, she appeared on TVN's '' El Baile en TVN'', the Chilean version of ''Dancing with the Stars''. In 2019–20, she played in the Chilean-German thriller television series ''Dignity'' a recurring character. In 2010, Forch and Valentín Trujillo recorded a collaboration song for an album featuring numerous Chilean artists to raise relief funds for the 2010 earthquakes in Chile and Hai ...
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Amaya Garbayo
Amaya Garbayo (born 26 March 1970) is a Spanish former swimmer who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October .... References 1970 births Living people Spanish female swimmers Spanish female freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Spain Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics 20th-century Spanish women {{Spain-swimming-bio-stub ...
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Amaya Arzuaga
Amaya Arzuaga (born in Lerma (Burgos), in 1970), is a Spanish designer. She studied in the UPM and in 1992 she finished Fashion Design and joined her parents' enterprise, Elipse. In 1994, she created her own firm. She sells and shows her collections regularly in international fashion fairs like Atmosphère (Paris), Fashion Cotterie ( New York), Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (Milan), Pasarela Cibeles (Madrid), Passarel·la Gaudí (Barcelona), and London Fashion Week (London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...). Amaya Arzuaga has more than 200 boutiques in Spain. Prizes *Magacines Telva, Elle, Woman *Empresaria joven de Expansión *Arte de Vivi *Primer Premio Cibeles *Medalla de oro al mérito en las Bellas Artes de 2005 External linksWebsite*Biography (in ...
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Amaya Salazar
Amaya Salazar (born 1951, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...) is a Dominican artist and painter. She known for her faceless personas that inhabit mystical and magical environments where light and the Antillean flora are present. Biography Amaya Salazar studied at the Academia Artium, Madrid, Spain and at the School of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Salazar is mostly inspired by the female form and by mother and child images. She captures those intimate moments where women are escaping the reality of life and entering the warm of the Caribbean light. Light and flora play an important role in Salazar's work. In her work, the rays of the sun and moon create kaleidoscope of tones throughout the landscape. In the nightscapes the palette tu ...
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Mocedades
Mocedades () is a Spanish singing group from the Basque Country, who represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973 with the hit song "Eres Tú". Since June 2014, ''Mocedades'' has been the name of two bands: one with Izaskun Uranga as its leader and the other with Javier Garay. A third group, El Consorcio, is composed of former Mocedades members who left the group but have continued a career together outside the Mocedades brand. Group formation In 1967, in the Basque city of Bilbao, three young sisters, Amaya, Izaskun and Estibaliz Uranga, formed a vocal trio named ''Las Hermanas Uranga'' (''The Uranga Sisters''). They sang in various locations at Bilbao. During their rehearsals, their brothers and friends joined. Eventually they decided to form a vocal group named ''Voces y guitarras'' ("Voices and Guitars") with folk and spiritual music and The Beatles as their influences. The members of ''Voces y guitarras'' were Amaya Uranga, Izaskun Uranga, Estibaliz Uran ...
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Amaya Uranga
Amaya Uranga Amezaga (born 18 February 1947) is a Spanish singer from Bilbao, best known for the 15 years she spent as a member of the Basque folk/pop sextet Mocedades. She is a cousin of director Pablo Berger. Biography Uranga formed Mocedades in 1969 with eight members. After numerous group changes, Uranga together with her sister Izaskun, her brother Roberto, and three other male members became the so-called "historic six" members of Mocedades who came second in the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Eres Tú", and the band subsequently launched a hugely successful music career in Spain and Latin America. She was lead singer on many of Mocedades' most successful songs, such as the international smash hit "Eres Tú" and "Tómame o Déjame." Solo career Uranga left Mocedades in 1984 to pursue a solo career, although she failed to surpass her success in Mocedades. In the mid-1990s, Uranga joined a new band called El Consorcio. She has also appeared as herself man ...
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