Xoán is
Galician for
John
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second ...
.
Notable people with the name include:
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Xoán Paredes Xoán M. Paredes (; born in 1975) is a Galician geographer, teacher and ordained druid (head of the organized Galician druidic movement).
Paredes is a ''licenciado'' in Geography by the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia), where he stu ...
(born in 1975), Galician geographer
* Xoán de Novoa (
João da Nova
João da Nova ( gl, Xoán de Novoa, Joam de Nôvoa; es, Juan de Nova; ; born c. 1460 in Maceda, Ourense, Galicia; died July 16, 1509 in Kochi, India) was a Portuguese-Galician explorer of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the service of Portug ...
), Spanish explorer, 1460–1509
* (born 1946), Spanish politician
See also
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João
João is the Portuguese equivalent of the given name John. The diminutive is Joãozinho and the feminine is Joana. It is widespread in Portuguese-speaking countries. Notable people with the name are enumerated in the sections below.
Kings
* ...
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John (disambiguation)
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second E ...
*
Juan
''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...
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Xohán de Cangas Johan de Cangas (or ''Xohan de Cangas'' in an anachronistically modernized Galician form) was a ''jograr'' or non-noble troubadour, probably active during the thirteenth century. He seems to have been from—or associated with – Cangas do Morrazo, ...
, a jograr or troubadour, around the thirteenth century
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San Xoán de Río
San Juan de Río is a municipality in the Ourense province of Galicia, an Autonomous Community in northwestern Spain. It is located in the north of the province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or soverei ...
, a municipality in Galicia (Spain)
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San Juan (disambiguation) San Juan, Spanish for Saint John (disambiguation), Saint John, may refer to:
Places Argentina
* San Juan Province, Argentina
* San Juan, Argentina, the capital of that province
* San Juan, Salta, a village in Iruya, Salta Province
* San Juan ( ...
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São João (disambiguation) São João, Portuguese for "Saint John", may refer to:
Architecture
*Forte de São João (disambiguation)
*Capela de São João Batista (Chapel of St. John the Baptist), Church of São Roque, Lisbon
Places
Brazil
* Barra de São João, Casimi ...
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Alternate forms for the name John
Other language forms for the name John:
* Chon
* Dzon, Džon (Congolese, Serbian)
* Ean ( Manx)
* Eóin (Irish)
* Evan (Welsh)
* Ganix (Basque)
* Giăng (Vietnamese, Protestant )
* Giannina (Italian)
* Gioan (Vietnamese, Catholic )
* Gioan ...
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Xoana (disambiguation)
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Galician masculine given names