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García De Toledo Osorio, 4th Marquis Of Villafranca
García or Garcia may refer to: People * García (surname) * Kings of Pamplona/Navarre ** García Íñiguez of Pamplona, king of Pamplona 851/2–882 ** García Sánchez I of Pamplona, king of Pamplona 931–970 ** García Sánchez II of Pamplona, king of Pamplona 994–1004 ** García Sánchez III of Navarre, king of Navarre 1035–1054 ** García Ramírez of Navarre, king of Navarre 1134–1150 * Kings of León/Galicia ** García I of León ** García II of Galicia Places * Garcia, Tarragona, a municipality in Ribera d'Ebre, Spain * García, Nuevo León, a municipality in Mexico * Garcia, Colorado, an unincorporated town in the United States Entertainment * ''Los tres García'' ( en, The Three Garcias), Mexican film from the Golden Age of cinema Television * ''Los Garcia'' ( en, The Garcias), Puerto Rican television comedy show the 1970s * ''The Garcias'', American television series * '' García!'', Spanish television series Music * ''Garcia'' (album), an album by Jerry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
García (surname)
Garcia or García is an Iberian Peninsula, Iberian surname common throughout Spain, Portugal, the Americas, and the Philippines. It is a surname of patronymic origin; ''García'' was a very common first name in early medieval Iberia. Origins It may have been a Basques, Basque surname "Gaztea" which later was Hispanicization, Castilianized in the medieval Kingdom of Castile to become "García". It is attested since the High Middle Ages north and south of the Pyrenees (Basque Country (greater region), Basque Culture Territories), with the surname (and sometimes first name too) thriving, especially in the Kingdom of Navarre, and spreading out to Castile (historical region), Castile and other Spanish regions. Alfonso Irigoyen believed it to derive from the Basque adjective ''garze(a)'' meaning "young", whose modern form is ''gaztea'' or ''gaztia''. Ramón Menéndez Pidal and Antonio Tovar suggested it may come from the Basque word ''(H)artz'', meaning "(the) Bear".Gartzia (Garzia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |