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LÃdia Armengol I Vila
LÃdia Armengol i Vila (13 September 1948 – 26 November 1991) was an Andorran historian and civil servant who championed the restoration of her country's historic language and culture. Biography Armengol was born in the old quarter of Andorra la Vella, the capital city of Andorra (a landlocked microstate in the Pyrenees mountains). She attended primary classes in a French school there and then went to the University of Perpignan in nearby France, where she continued her education at the Lycée Jean Lurçat. She graduated from the Spanish section of Letters in 1971. The following year she obtained her master's degree (Maîtrise d'Enseignement) at the same university. In 1978, she received the Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in the specialty of Andorran Studies at the University of Perpignan. In 1984, she took a course in historical demography at the École d'Hautes Études de Sciencies in Paris, France. Government service According to writer Antoni Pol, "Her contribution h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andorra La Vella
Andorra la Vella is the capital and largest city of Andorra. It is located high in the east Pyrenees, between France and Spain. It is also the name of the parishes of Andorra, Andorran parish that surrounds the capital. , the city had a population of 22,256, and the urban area, which includes Escaldes–Engordany plus satellite villages, has over 40,000 inhabitants. The principal industry is tourism, and the country also earns foreign income from being a tax haven. It is at an elevation of , and is the highest capital city in Europe. The city shares a border with Spain. Name ''Andorra la Vella'' means "the city of Andorra", to distinguish it from the Principality of Andorra as a whole. Although in Catalan the word ''vella'' (like French ''vieille'') is derived from the Latin word ''vetula'' which means "old", the ''Vella'' here (like French ''ville'' and Catalan ''vila'') is derived from the Latin word ''villa'', meaning "city". History The site of Andorra la Vella has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Archives
National archives are the archives of a country. The concept evolved in various nations at the dawn of modernity based on the impact of nationalism upon bureaucratic processes of paperwork retention. Conceptual development From the Middle Ages into the Early modern period archives generated by royal and clerical institutions retained proofs of political and genealogical claims as a "bastion of authenticity." The emerging Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment concept of studying history as a science rather than as literature was influenced by Leopold von Ranke and brought archives into the limelight of serious historical study. In the late 18th century, the storage of old records was divided. Business records in the ''archives courantes'' went the way of records management while documents of cultural import in the ''archives historiques'' formed the core of Western-conceived archives. As the popularity of archives increased as a function of substantiating historical narratives, natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women Historians
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People From Andorra La Vella
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Births
Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) go into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways. * January 4 – British rule in Burma, Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the 'Post-independence Burma (1948–1962), Union of Burma', with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister. * January 5 – In the United States: ** Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (''Tournament of Roses Parade'' and the ''Rose Bowl Game''). ** The first Kinsey Reports, Kinsey Report, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'', is published. * January 7 – Mantell UFO incident: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WorldCat
WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of tens of thousands of institutions (mostly libraries), in many countries, that are current or past members of the OCLC global cooperative. It is operated by OCLC, Inc. Many of the OCLC member libraries collectively maintain WorldCat's database, the world's largest bibliographic database. The database includes other information sources in addition to member library collections. OCLC makes WorldCat itself available free to libraries, but the catalog is the foundation for other subscription OCLC services (such as resource sharing and collection management). WorldCat is used by librarians for cataloging and research and by the general public. , WorldCat contained over 540 million bibliographic records in 483 languages, representing over 3 billion physical and digital library assets, and the WorldCat persons dataset ( mined from WorldCat) included over 100 million people. History OCLC was founded in 1967 under the leade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics is the descriptive, scientific study of how language is shaped by, and used differently within, any given society. The field largely looks at how a language changes between distinct social groups, as well as how it varies under the influence of assorted cultural norms, expectations, and contexts. Sociolinguistics combines the older field of dialectology with the social sciences in order to identify regional dialects, sociolects, ethnolects, and other sub-varieties and styles within a language, as well as the distinctions and variations inside each of these. A major branch of linguistics since the second half of the 20th century, sociolinguistics is closely related to and can partly overlap with pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and sociology of language, the latter focusing on the effect of language back on society. Sociolinguistics' historical interrelation with anthropology can be observed in studies of how language varieties differ between groups ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Església De Sant Esteve
Església de Sant Esteve is a church located on Plaça del PrÃncep Benlloch in Andorra la Vella, Andorra Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a Sovereignty, sovereign landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees in Southwestern Europe, Andorra–France border, bordered by France to the north and Spain to A .... It is a heritage property registered in the Cultural Heritage of Andorra. It was built in the 11th-12th century and then restored in the 20th century. References Buildings and structures in Andorra la Vella Roman Catholic churches in Andorra Cultural Heritage of Andorra {{Andorra-church-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josep Pintat-Solans
Josep Pintat Solans (; January 21, 1925 РOctober 20, 2007) was the prime minister of Andorra. A local business executive, he was unanimously elected prime minister by the General Council of Andorra and began serving on May 21, 1984; Pintat Solans was re-elected in January 1986, receiving the votes of 27 out of 28 of the General Council's members, serving as Prime Minister until January 12, 1990. He died on October 20, 2007, after a long illness. In 2024 he posthumously received the Cross of the Seven Arms (''Creu dels Set Bra̤os'') from the government of Andorra The politics of Andorra take place in a framework of a parliamentary system, parliamentary constitutional monarchy, and a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government, with the Head of Government of Andorra as chief executi .... References Heads of government of Andorra 1925 births 2007 deaths Andorran businesspeople 20th-century businesspeople {{Andorra-poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ã’scar Ribas Reig
Ã’scar Ribas Reig (; 26 October 193618 December 2020) was an Andorran politician, lawyer, and businessman who became the prime minister of Andorra in 1982.Andorra entry on Hutchinson Encyclopedia He twice served as head of government, first from 8 January 1982 to 21 May 1984 and again from 12 January 1990 to 7 December 1994. Early life and education Ã’scar Ribas Reig was born in , Andorra, on 26 October 1936 to an Andorran father and a Catalan mother. He moved to Spain as a child, living in |
Andorra National Library
The Andorra National Library () was founded in 1930, then re-opened in 1974. Since 2020, it is housed in the former Hotel Rosaleda in Encamp. Amongst other functions, it is the legal deposit and copyright library for Andorra. History The Andorra National Library was created on September 8, 1930, with the aim of providing book lending services to the people of the valleys of Andorra (''les Valls d'Andorra''). It was initially housed in the hall of lost steps (''sala dels passos perduts'') in the Casa de la Vall (the headquarters of the General Council of Andorra). Its creation resulted from an initiative of the Andorran Society of Barcelona Residents (''Sociedat Andorrana de Residents a Barcelona'') together with contributions from various private individuals, and followed in the wake of the founding of other socio-cultural entities, such as the Association for the Protection of Catalan Education (''Associació Protectora de l'Ensenyança Catalana''). The new library was establis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
