Catalan may refer to:

Catalonia

From, or related to

Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the no ...

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Catalan language Catalan (; autonym: , ), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as '' Valencian'' ( autonym: ), is a Western Romance language. It is the official language of Andorra, and an official language of three autonomous communities in eas ...

, a Romance language *

Catalans Catalans (Catalan, French and Occitan: ''catalans''; es, catalanes, Italian: ''catalani'', sc, cadelanos) are a Romance ethnic group native to Catalonia, who speak Catalan. The current official category of "Catalans" is that of the citiz ...

, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or

southern Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the no ...

Places

* 13178 Catalan, asteroid #13178, named "Catalan" * Catalán (crater), a lunar crater named for Miguel Ángel Catalán *

Çatalan, İvrindi Çatalan is a village in the İvrindi district of Balıkesir province Balıkesir Province ( tr, ) is a province in northwestern Turkey with coastlines on both the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea, Aegean. Its adjacent provinces are Çanakk ...

, a village in Balıkesir province, Turkey *

Çatalan, Karaisalı Çatalan is a village in the District of Karaisalı, Adana Province, Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental co ...

, a village in Adana Province, Turkey *

Catalan Bay Catalan Bay ( es, La Caleta) is a bay and fishing village in Gibraltar, on the eastern side of The Rock away from Westside. Etymology Although the origin of Catalan Bay's name is documented, a couple of theories co-exist. Documentary evide ...

, Gibraltar * Catalan Sea, more commonly known as the Balearic Sea * Catalan Mediterranean System, the Catalan Mountains

Facilities and structures

* Çatalan Bridge, Adana, Turkey * Çatalan Dam, Adana, Turkey * Catalan Batteries, Gibraltar

People

Catalan, Lord of Monaco Catalan Grimaldi (Catalano Grimaldi) (c. 1415–1457) was Lord of Monaco from 1454 until 1457. Sources 1415 births 1457 deaths 15th-century Lords of Monaco House of Grimaldi Lords of Monaco People of Ligurian descent {{Monac ...

(1415–1457), Lord of Monaco from 1454 until 1457 *

Alfredo Catalán Alfredo Catalán Schick (born November 12, 1968), is a Venezuelan politician. He is affiliated with Project Venezuela. He was elected mayor of El Hatillo from July 30, 2000 until December 1, 2008. He was reelected once in 2004. Career as a mayor ...

(born 1968), Venezuelan politician *

Alex Catalán Alejandro Catalán (11 December 1968 in El Pobo de Dueñas, Spain – present) better known as Alex Catalán, is a Spanish director of photography, who has worked in more than 20 feature films and other short films which have won several prizes. ...

(born 1968), Spanish filmmaker * Arnaut Catalan (1219–1253), troubador * Diego Catalán (1928–2008), Spanish philologist * Emilio Arenales Catalán (1922–1969) Guatemalan politician * Eugène Charles Catalan (1814–1894), French and Belgian mathematician * Miguel A. Catalán (1894–1957), Spanish spectroscopist * Moses Chayyim Catalan (died 1661), Italian rabbi * Sergio Catalán (born 1991) Chilean soccer player

Mathematics

Mathematical concepts named after mathematician Eugène Catalan: *

Catalan number In combinatorial mathematics, the Catalan numbers are a sequence of natural numbers that occur in various counting problems, often involving recursively defined objects. They are named after the French-Belgian mathematician Eugène Charles C ...

s, a sequence of natural numbers that occur in various counting problems * Catalan solids, a family of polyhedra * Catalan's constant, a number that occurs in estimates in combinatorics * Catalan's conjecture

Wine

* Catalan (grape), another name for the wine grape Mourvèdre *

Catalan wine Catalan wines are those that are produced in the wine region of Catalonia. Occasionally, the appellation is applied to some French wine made in the Catalan region of Roussillon also known as Northern Catalonia or the ''Pays catalans''. The city of ...

, an alternative name used in France for wine made from the Carignan grape **

Carignan Carignan (also known as Mazuelo, Bovale Grande, Cariñena, Carinyena, Samsó, Carignane, and Carignano) is a red grape variety of Spanish origin that is more commonly found in French wine but is widely planted throughout the western Medite ...

, a wine grape that is also known as Catalan

Sports and games

* Catalan Opening, in chess * Catalan Open, golf tournament * Catalans Dragons, a rugby league team often known simply as ''Catalan'' * XIII Catalan, a rugby league team from Perpignan, France

Other uses

* Battle of Catalán (1817) in Uruguay * Catalan Sheepdog *

Catalan Company The Catalan Company or the Great Catalan Company (Spanish: ''Compañía Catalana'', Catalan: ''Gran Companyia Catalana'', Latin: ''Exercitus francorum'', ''Societas exercitus catalanorum'', ''Societas cathalanorum'', ''Magna Societas Catalanorum' ...

, medieval mercenary company * Catalan vault, architectural design element * ''

The Catalans ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in En ...

'', a 1953 novel by

Patrick O'Brian Patrick O'Brian, CBE (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and cen ...