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Valla (surname)
Valla is a surname. It is Italian equivalent of Valle. It is also used as a surname in Norway referring to someone from several places or farmsteads in Nordland. It is the plural form of Old Norse word ''vǫllr'' (Norwegian: field meadow). Notable people with the surname include: *Esat Valla, Kosovar Albanian painter * Gerd-Liv Valla, Norwegian trade union leader * Giorgio Valla (1447–1500), scientist * Kristin Valla (born 1975), Norwegian writer and journalist *Kristin Hille Valla, Norwegian politician for the Centre Party * Lorenzo Valla (1406–1457), Italian Renaissance era humanist * Marie-Laure Valla, French set dresser and set decorator * Natacha Valla, French economist *Paul Vallas, American politician *Spyros Vallas, Greek professional football player *Trebisonda Valla Trebisonda "Ondina" Valla (20 May 1916 – 16 October 2006) was an Italian female athlete, and the first Italian woman to ever win an Olympic gold medal. She won it in the 80 m hurdles event at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valle (surname)
Valle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Ågot Valle (born 1945), Norwegian politician *Alex Valle (born 1978), Peruvian-American professional fighting game player * Amaurys Valle (born 1990), Cuban track-and-field athlete *Ángela Valle (1927–2003), Honduran writer, journalist, essayist *Anna Valle (born 1975), Italian actress * Beatriz Valle (born 1966), Honduran politician * Camila Valle (born 1995), Peruvian rower * Dave Valle, American baseball player *Donald Valle, American restaurateur *Eltjon Valle (born 1984), artist from Kuçova, Albania *Héctor Valle (born 1940), Puerto Rican baseball player *Joaquín Valle (born 1916), Spanish professional footballer *Jonatan Valle (born 1984), Spanish professional footballer *José Cecilio del Valle (1780–1834), philosopher, politician, lawyer, and journalist *Marcos Valle, Brazilian singer, songwriter and record producer *Ramón Valle (born 1964), Cuban jazz pianist and composer *Richard Valle, American restaur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordland
Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to the south-east, and the Atlantic Ocean (Norwegian Sea) to the west. The county was formerly known as ''Nordlandene amt''. The county administration is in the town of Bodø. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen has been administered from Nordland since 1995. In the southern part of the county is Vega, listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list. Districts The county is divided into traditional districts. These are Helgeland in the south (south of the Arctic Circle), Salten in the centre, and Ofoten in the north-east. In the north-west lie the archipelagoes of Lofoten and Vesterålen. Geography Nordland is located along the northwestern coast of the Scandinavian pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their Viking expansion, overseas settlements and chronologically coincides with the Viking Age, the Christianization of Scandinavia and the consolidation of Scandinavian kingdoms from about the 7th to the 15th centuries. The Proto-Norse language developed into Old Norse by the 8th century, and Old Norse began to develop into the modern North Germanic languages in the mid-to-late 14th century, ending the language phase known as Old Norse. These dates, however, are not absolute, since written Old Norse is found well into the 15th century. Old Norse was divided into three dialects: Old West Norse, ''Old West Norse'' or ''Old West Nordic'' (often referred to as ''Old Norse''), Old East Norse, ''Old East Norse'' or ''Old East Nordic'', and ''Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esat Valla
Esat Valla (born 22 April 1944) is a Kosovar Albanian painter noted for his figurative paintings of small animals or insects such as butterflies and birds. Life Esat Valla was born on 22 April 1944 in Gjakova, where he attended primary school. In 1965 he graduated from the Secondary School of Art in Peć. In 1971 he graduated from the Academy of Arts in Belgrade (now the University of Arts in Belgrade), where he studied painting under professor Zoran Petrovic. From 1974 he was a member of the Association of Figurative Artists of Kosovo. He has been working at the Faculty of Arts since 1976, where he teaches painting to undergraduates and graduates, with the title of Ordinary Professor at the Universiteti i Prishtinës The University of Pristina ( sq, Universiteti i Prishtinës) is a public university located in Pristina, Kosovo. It is the institution that emerged after the disestablishment of the University of Pristina (1969–99) as a result of the K .... In 1981 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerd-Liv Valla
Gerd-Liv Valla (born 25 January 1948 in Korgen, Nordland) is a Norwegian former trade union leader, who served as leader of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO). She took over in 2001 (from former leader, Yngve Hågensen) and resigned in 2007 as a result of the so-called Valla affair. In 1997 she briefly served as Norwegian Minister of Justice. Early life Valla grew up on a farm near Bjerka in Hemnes municipality, Nordland. Their father was active in the Norwegian Agrarian Association, and her brother Nils Valla would become a national leader of this organization. Gerd-Liv Valla moved to Hemnesberget to complete her primary education, and to Mo i Rana for upper secondary school. While living in Mo, she competed for Mo IL in middle distance running and set a Northern Norwegian record in the 800 metres. The time was 2:18.1 minutes, achieved in June 1968 on Bislett stadion. Education and professional life Valla has a major degree in political science, with minors in socia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Valla
Giorgio Valla (Latin: ''Georgius Valla''; Piacenza 1447–Venice 1500) was an Italian academic, mathematician, philologist and translator. Life He was born in Piacenza in 1447. He was the son of Andrea Valla and Cornelia Corvini. At the age of fifteen Giorgio Valla moved to Milan, where he was educated by the famous Neoplatonic Hellenist Constantine Lascaris. Among his works is a Latin translation of the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo and Aristarchus's ''On the Sizes and Distances'' (1488). The ''De expetendis et fugiendis rebus'' is the most valuable work produced by Valla. He lectured in physics and in medicine at Pavia and Venice. His ''magnum opus'' included Boethian arithmetic and music, and Euclidean geometry, law and rhetoric, among other matters.(here cited page 128) Works Treatises * ''De orthographia'' (1495), Vienna. * ''De expedita ratione argumentandi'' (1498; also Basel, 1529). * ''Logica'' (1498), Venice. * ''De simplicium natura'' (1528) Strassburg (on phar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristin Valla
Kristin Valla (born 22 March 1975 in Mo i Rana) is a Norwegian writer and journalist. She now lives in Oslo. Her debut novel, ''Muskat'', has been translated to several languages, including English in 2002. Life and work Kristin Valla was born and brought up in Mo i Rana outside Finneidfjord in Nordland. She is a trained journalist from the University of Oslo and has studied French and Spanish at the University of Oslo and the University of Bergen. She has also studied Latin American studies at the University of Bergen. In the autumn of 1997, she moved to Venezuela, where she lived for over a year and, among other things, studied Spanish grammar and essay writing in Mérida. Valla has worked as a journalist in Dagbladet Magasinet, as editor-in-chief in the fashion magazine Costume and as editor for the cultural magazine Aftenposten K. In 2000, she made her debut as an author with the novel ''Muskat'' (Nutmeg) which turned out to be very successful. The novel has been tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristin Hille Valla
Kristin Hille Valla (born 31 December 1944 in Årdal) is a Norwegian politician in the Centre Party. Biography From 1989 to 1990, while the cabinet Syse held office, Hille Valla was appointed Minister of the Environment. On the local level she was a member of Nes municipal council from 1983 to 1987. From 1987 to 1991 she was a member of Buskerud county council. In 2001 she was appointed County Governor of Oppland. From 1987 to 1991 she was the second vice leader of her party. Outside politics she mainly worked as a teacher in Dovre and Nesbyen. From 1991 to 1998 she was the school director in Oppland county, and from 1998 to 2000 she was the director of the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities ( no, KS) is an employers' organisation in Norway. It was founded in 1972 as a merger between the Union of Norwegian Cities (''Norges Byforbund'', founded in 1903) and the Norwegian Ass .... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Valla
Lorenzo Valla (; also Latinized as Laurentius; 14071 August 1457) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, rhetorician, educator, scholar, and Catholic priest. He is best known for his historical-critical textual analysis that proved that the ''Donation of Constantine'' was a forgery, therefore attacking and undermining the presumption of temporal power claimed by the papacy. Lorenzo is sometimes seen as a precursor of the Reformation. Life Valla was born in Rome, with a family background of Piacenza; his father, Luciave della Valla, was a lawyer who worked in the Papal Curia. He was educated in Rome, attending the classes of teachers including Leonardo Bruni and Giovanni Aurispa, from whom he learned Latin and Greek. He is thought otherwise to have been largely self-taught. Bruni was a papal secretary; Melchior Scrivani, Valla's uncle, was another. But Valla had caused offence, to Antonio Loschi, by championing the rhetorician Quintilian in an early work. In 1431, Valla entere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Laure Valla
Marie-Laure Valla is a French people, French set dresser and set decorator. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design, Academy Award for Best Art Direction for her work in ''Amélie'' (2001). References External links * French set decorators Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{France-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
