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.
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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 eastern Spa ...
, a Romance language
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Catalans
Catalans (Catalan language, Catalan, French language, French and Occitan language, Occitan: ''catalans''; es, catalanes, Italian language, Italian: ''catalani'', sc, cadelanos) are a Romance languages, Romance ethnic group native to Cataloni ...
, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in,
Northern
Northern may refer to the following:
Geography
* North, a point in direction
* Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe
* Northern Highland, a region of Wisconsin, United States
* Northern Province, Sri Lanka
* Northern Range, a ra ...
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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 north ...
Places
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13178 Catalan, asteroid #13178, named "Catalan"
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Catalán (crater)
Catalán is a small lunar impact crater that lies almost along the southwest limb of the Moon. At this position the crater is ill-suited for observation from the Earth as it is viewed almost from the side, and visibility is subject to libration ef ...
, a lunar crater named for Miguel Ángel Catalán
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Çatalan, İvrindi, a village in Balıkesir province, Turkey
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Çatalan, Karaisalı, a village in Adana Province, Turkey
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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 evidenc ...
, Gibraltar
* Catalan Sea, more commonly known as the
Balearic Sea
The Balearic Sea ( endotoponym: ''Mar Balear'' in Catalan and Spanish) is a body of water in the Mediterranean Sea between the Balearic Islands and the mainland of Spain. The Ebro River flows into this small sea.
Islands and archipelagoes
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Catalan Mediterranean System
The Catalan Mediterranean System, also known as Mediterranean System, Transversal Ibero-Pyrenaean System, and Catalanid System,Josep Guitart i Duran, Maria del Tura Bolòs et al. ''Història agrària dels Països Catalans (Volum 1) Antiguitat'', 2 ...
, the Catalan Mountains
Facilities and structures
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Çatalan Bridge
The Çatalan Bridge ( tr, Çatalan Köprüsü), also known as the West Bridge ( tr, Batı Köprüsü), is a long bridge crossing the Seyhan Dam Lake in Adana, Turkey. The bridge connects the city of Adana to the villages and vacation homes north ...
, Adana, Turkey
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Çatalan Dam
Çatalan Dam is an embankment dam on the Seyhan River dam in Adana Province, Turkey. It is north of the city of Adana. Constructed between 1982 and 1997, the development was backed by the State Hydraulic Works (Turkey), Turkish State Hydraulic Wor ...
, Adana, Turkey
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Catalan Batteries
Catalan Batteries is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.
References
Batteries in Gibraltar
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People
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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
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(1415–1457), Lord of Monaco from 1454 until 1457
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Alfredo Catalán (born 1968), Venezuelan politician
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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
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Arnaut Catalan Arnaut Catalan ( fl. 1219–1253) was a troubadour active in the Languedoc, Catalonia
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by ...
(1219–1253), troubador
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Diego Catalán
Diego Catalán y Menéndez-Pidal (16 September 1928 – 9 April 2008) was a Spanish philologist. He died of heart disease on 9 April 2008, at the age of 79.
Biography
Diego Catalán y Menéndez-Pidal was the son of Miguel Catalán Sañudo an ...
(1928–2008), Spanish philologist
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Emilio Arenales Catalán
Emilio Arenales Catalán (May 10, 1922 – April 17, 1969) was the foreign minister of Guatemala from 1966 to 1969 and the president of the United Nations Twenty-Third General Assembly from 1968 to 1969. He was born and died in Guatemala City.
Bio ...
(1922–1969) Guatemalan politician
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Eugène Charles Catalan
Eugène Charles Catalan (30 May 1814 – 14 February 1894) was a French and Belgian mathematician who worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics. His notable contributions included discovering a periodic ...
(1814–1894), French and Belgian mathematician
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Miguel A. Catalán
Miguel Antonio Catalán y Sañudo (1894–1957) was a Spanish spectroscopy, spectroscopist.
Biography
Miguel Antonio Catalán y Sañudo was born in Zaragoza, he obtained his degree in chemistry from the University of Zaragoza and received his ...
(1894–1957), Spanish spectroscopist
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Moses Chayyim Catalan
Moses Chayyim Catalan (b. Padua, Italy, d. 1661, Padua) was an Italian poet. A son of the physician Abraham Catalan, he was rabbi in his native town, and died there at an advanced age in 1661. It was to him that the first letters of Isaac Vita Ca ...
(died 1661), Italian rabbi
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Sergio Catalán
Sergio Pablo Catalán Duque (born 29 August 1991) is a Chilean footballer that currently plays as defender for Chilean club Colchagua.
He began his career at Curicó Unido
Curicó Unido is a football club based in Curicó, Maule Region ...
(born 1991) Chilean soccer player
Mathematics
Mathematical concepts named after mathematician Eugène Catalan:
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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 Cata ...
s, a sequence of natural numbers that occur in various counting problems
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Catalan solids
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
* 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...
, a family of polyhedra
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Catalan's constant
In mathematics, Catalan's constant , is defined by
: G = \beta(2) = \sum_^ \frac = \frac - \frac + \frac - \frac + \frac - \cdots,
where is the Dirichlet beta function. Its numerical value is approximately
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It is not known whether is irra ...
, a number that occurs in estimates in combinatorics
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Catalan's conjecture
Catalan's conjecture (or Mihăilescu's theorem) is a theorem in number theory that was Conjecture, conjectured by the mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan in 1844 and proven in 2002 by Preda Mihăilescu at Paderborn University. The integers 2 ...
Wine
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Catalan (grape)
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
* 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...
, another name for the wine grape Mourvèdre
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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
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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 Mediterra ...
, a wine grape that is also known as Catalan
Sports and games
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Catalan Opening
The Catalan Opening is a chess opening where White plays d4 and c4 and fianchettoes the white bishop on g2. A common opening sequence is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3, although various other openings can transpose into the Catalan. The ''Encyclopaedia of ...
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Catalan Open
The Catalan Open was a European Tour golf tournament which was played annually from 1989 to 1996, except for 1990. It was played at several different golf courses in Catalonia, Spain. It never had the same full official name two years in a row, du ...
, golf tournament
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Catalans Dragons
The Catalans Dragons ( French: ''Dragons Catalans'', Catalan: ''Dracs Catalans'') are a professional rugby league club from Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales department, France. The team competes in the Super League and are the only team from ...
, a rugby league team often known simply as ''Catalan''
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XIII Catalan
XIII Catalan is a rugby league team from Perpignan in the Pyrénées-Orientales region of southern France. They were founded in 1934, and thus were founding members of the French rugby league championship. In 2000 their senior team merged with n ...
, a rugby league team from Perpignan, France
Other uses
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Battle of Catalán
The Battle of Catalán was fought between the Luso-Brazilian forces under the command of Luís Teles da Silva Caminha e Meneses, the Marquis of Alegrete, and the ''artiguistas'' commanded by Andrés Latorre in Arroyo Catalán, present-day Urugua ...
(1817) in Uruguay
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Catalan Sheepdog
The Catalan Sheepdog ( ca, Gos d'atura català, es, Pastor catalán) is a breed of Catalan Pyrenean dog used as a sheepdog. This dog is bred in Europe, especially in Spain, Finland, Germany, and Sweden.
Appearance
Catalan sheepdogs range i ...
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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
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Catalan vault
The Catalan vault ( ca, volta catalana), also called thin-tile vault, Catalan turn, Catalan arch, boveda ceiling (Spanish ''bóveda'' 'vault'), or timbrel vault, is a type of low brickwork arch forming a vaulted ceiling that often supports a floor ...
, architectural design element
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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, Order of the British Empire, 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 t ...
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Catalonia (disambiguation)
Catalonia is part of the Iberian Peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea.
Catalonia also may refer to:
Places
*Principality of Catalonia, former political unit of southwestern Europe formed by the grouping of the Catalan counties in 1162 and divided b ...
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Catalunya (disambiguation)
Catalunya is the Catalan name for Catalonia, a part of the Iberian Peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea.
Catalunya also may refer to:
Places
* Principat de Catalunya, former political unit of southwestern Europe formed by the grouping of the Catala ...
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Catalan exonyms
The following is a list of Catalan exonyms, that is to say, names for places out of Catalan speaking areas which are used in the Catalan language.
Albania
Algeria
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
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Anti-Catalanism
Anti-Catalanism ( ca, anticatalanisme, ) is the collective name given to various historical trends in France, Italy, and Spain that have been hostile to Catalan culture and traditions.
Description
In a historical context, anti-Catalanism expres ...
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