Balearic Islands - Balearic Islands Comunitat Autònoma de les Illes Balears Comunidad Autónoma de las Illes Balears Capital Palma de Mallorca Official languages Catalan and Castilian Area - total - % of Spain Ranked 17th 4 992 km² 1,0% Population - Total (2003) - % of Spain - Density Ranked 14th 916 968 2,2% 183,69/km² Demonym - English - Catalan - Spanish Balearic balear balear Statute of Autonomy March 1, 1983 ISO 3166-2 IB Parliamentary representation Congress seats Senate seats 7 1 President Jaume Matas Palou (PPIB) Govern de les Illes Balears The Balearic Islands (Illes Balears Catalan official name, Islas Baleares in Spanish) are an archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea, forming an autonomous community of Spain. The capital of the autonomous community is Palma de Mallorca..
List of municipalities in the Balearic Islands - List of municipalities in the Balearic Islands This is a list of the municipalities in the province and autonomous community of the Balearic Islands, Spain. Name Pop. (2002) Island Alaior 7,982 Minorca Alaró 4,320 Majorca Alcúdia 13,824 Majorca Algaida 3,902 Majorca Andratx 9,454 Majorca Ariany 782 Majorca Artà 6,305 Majorca Banyalbufar 558 Majorca Binissalem 5,618 Majorca Búger 982 Majorca Bunyola 5,114 Majorca Calvià 40,979 Majorca Campanet 2,412 Majorca Campos 7,330 Majorca Capdepera 9,166 Majorca Es Castell 6,948 Minorca Ciutadella de Menorca 24,741 Minorca Consell 2,494 Majorca Costitx 971 Majorca Deyá 731 Majorca Eivissa (Ibiza Town) 37,408 Ibiza Escorca 312 Majorca Esporles 4,197 Majorca Estellencs 376 Majorca Felanitx 16,049 Majorca Ferreries 4,262 Minorca Formentera 7,461 Formentera Fornalutx 656 Majorca Inca 24,467 Majorca Lloret de Vistalegre 1,017 Majorca Lloseta 4,909.
Canary Islands - Canary Islands Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias (In Detail) Capitals Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Santa Cruz de Tenerife Area - total - % of Spain Ranked 13th 7 447 km² 1,5% Population - Total (2003) - % of Spain - Density Ranked 8th 1 843 755 4,4% 247,58/km² Demonym - English - Spanish Canary Islander canario/a Statute of Autonomy August 16, 1982 ISO 3166-2 ES-CN Parliamentary representation Congress seats Senate seats 14 2 President Adán Martín Menis (CC) Gobierno de Canarias The Canary Islands are an archipelago of seven islands of volcanic origin in the Atlantic Ocean, off the northwestern coast of Africa. The islands belong to Spain, and form an autonomous community of that country. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Physical geography 2 Political geography.
Latin names of islands - Latin names of islands Here are some listings of islands in Latin, and English on the right. Latin [English], [other name], [older name], [island chain/region], [state/nation] Aegina Aegina, Greece (Aigina) Insulis Aeolium? Aeolian Islands Amorgos Amorgos, Aegean, Greece Andros¹ Andros Anticosti Ile d'Anticosti, Quebec Anticythera¹ Anticythera, Cythera, Greece Antipoda¹ Antipodes Insula Australis? South Island, New Zealand Balearica Balearic Islands Insula Borealis? North Island, New Zealand Britannia Britain Calymnus¹, Calymnos¹ Kalymnos, Dodecanese, Aegean, Greece Canaris Insula Canary Islands Carpathos¹ Carpathos, Dodecanese, Greece Cassos¹ Cassos, Dodecanese, Greece Cauda? Cauda (Gauda/Gaf(v)da), Greece Cephallenia¹ Kefallinia, Cephallonia Corcyra Corfu, Ionian, Greece (Kerkyra) Corsica Corsica Cos¹ Cos, Dodecanese, Aegean, Greece Creta Crete (Kriti/Krete) Cuba Cuba Cyclades Ins. Cyclades Cyprus Cyprus (Kypros) Cynthos¹ Cynthos, Cyclades, Aegean, Greece Cythera¹ Cythera, Kythera, Greece Delos¹ Delos, Cyclades, Aegean,.
List of islands of Spain - List of islands of Spain This is a list of islands of Spain. Balearic Islands Formentera Cabrera Mallorca Menorca Ibiza Canary Islands Gran Canaria Fuerteventura Lanzarote Tenerife La Palma La Gomera Hierro Isla Perejil Isla Alborán See also List of islands List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean List of islands in the Mediterranean.
List of islands in the Mediterranean - List of islands in the Mediterranean This is a list of islands in the Mediterranean Aegean Sea - see Greek islands Crete Rhodes Albanian islands Balearic Islands Ibiza Mallorca Menorca Formentera Cabrera Corsica Lavezzi Islands Cyprus Italian Islands Sardinia Sicily Ionian Islands Corfu Maltese Islands Malta Gozo Comino Parsley Island.
Kingdom of Mallorca - by James I of Aragon (Jaume I, "The Conqueror") as a vassal kingdom of the Kingdom of Aragon. It included the Balearic Islands, Majorca and Minorca, which were conquered from the Moors; the islands of Formentera and Ibiza, more properly known as the Illes Pitiüses, but commonly included as Balearics; the counties of Rosselló and Cerdanya (approximately the present-day Catalunya del Nord); and the territories James retained in Occitània (la seignorie of Montpellier, the viscounty of Carladès and the barony of Omelàs). On James's death, this kingdom passed to his second son, who raigned under the naem James II of Mallorca. The kings of Mallorca were: James (Jaume) I (reigned 1231-1276), creator of the kingdom. James (Jaume) II (reigned 1276-1311). Alfonso (Alfons) II (Alfonso III of Aragon, known as "el Franc".
James I of Aragon - He first married, in 1221, Eleanor, daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile, and then, in 1235, Violant of Hungary, daughter of Andreas II of Hungary. He conquered Valencia and the Balearic Islands, and divided his domains between his two sons: Peter II of Aragon, who got most of them, and the younger James II of Majorca, who got Roussillon and the Balearic Islands. Preceded by: Peter II of Aragon List of Aragonese monarchs Followed by: Peter III of Aragon.
Vint Cerf - Technology by President Bill Clinton, along with his partner Robert E. Kahn, for these accomplishments. Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary Doctorates from the University of the Balearic Islands, ETH in Switzerland, Capitol College and Gettysburg College. He is the author of several RFCs, and founder of ISOC..
Ibiza - Ibiza Ibiza or Eivissa is one of the Balearic Islands (Illes Balears Catalan official name, Islas Baleares in Spanish) located in the Mediterranean Sea, and belonging to Spain. With Formentera, it is one of the two Illes Pitiüses. Major cities are Ibiza Town and San Antonio. Its official Catalan name is Eivissa; Ibiza is the Spanish (Castilian) name, now less used in Spain itself, though still dominant among speakers of English. The island was conquered by James I of Aragon in 1235. Ibiza is a very popular tourist destination, especially due to its legendary riotous nightlife (mainly in Ibiza Town, the island's capital on the eastern shore). Eivissa, Cala de sa Galera, with the Puig Nunó in the background.
Ibiza Town - of Spain. It is located on the southeast coast of the island of Ibiza (Eivissa) in the Balearic Islands autonomous community. The city, which has a population of 37,408 (2002), is the capital and most populous settlement of the island and of the Illes Pitiüses group (which includes Ibiza and Formentera). It is widely known for its extravagant nightlife, with its discotheques attracting visitors from all over the world. See also: List of municipalities in the Balearic Islands..
Illes Pitiüses - island group of the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain. The group is composed of the islands of Ibiza (Eivissa) and Formentera. The islands are situated approximately 100 km southwest of the island of Majorca (Mallorca), and approximately 80 km east of the Spanish mainland (Cabo de la Nao, Alicante, Valencia). The Illes Pitiüses are sometimes grouped together as part of the Balearic Islands, or else considered separate with the Balearics proper being Majorca and Minorca (Menorca). Politically, they are part of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands..
History of Sardinia - a mysterious people: Shardana. The first men to settle in Gallura and Northern Sardinia probably came from Italian mainland, maybe from Etruria. The central region might have been populated by people arrived from Iberian Peninsula through Balearic Islands. Southern settlements (around the gulf of Cagliari) were very likely founded by Africans. Prehistoric arrowheads (third millennium B.C.) and sculptures of the Mediterranean Mother Goddess (now in the Archeological Museum of Cagliari) were retrieved which demonstrate a well developed industry of stone carving. In prehistoric Sardinia a commerce in obsidian, a particular stone used for the production of the first rough tools, developed, and this activity brought Sardinians to have relationships with most of the Mediterranean peoples, from Lebanon to Phoenicians. In the Archeological Museum of Sassari are some ceramics from the Copper.
History of Catalonia - counts of Barcelona became kings of Aragon to its west. Catalonia and Aragon retained however its traditional rights, and own personality with one of the first parliaments in Europe. During the 13th and 14th centuries Catalonia became one of the most important regions of Europe, dominating a maritime empire extending across the western Mediterranean Sea, after the conquest of Valencia, Balearic Islands, Sardinia, and the accession to Sicily of the kings of Aragon. Thirteen years after the union (1479) of Aragon and Castile, which brought Catalonia into the new kingdom of Spain, the discovery of America by Columbus in a Spanish-sponsored expedition shifted Europe's economic centre of gravity from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean and undermined Catalonia's economic and political importance. Aragon was already and would continue to be.
Geography of Spain - Europe Area: total: 504,782 km² land: 499,542 km² water: 5,240 km² note: includes Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, and five places of sovereignty (plazas de soberanía) on and off the coast of Morocco - Ceuta, Melilla, Islas Chafarinas, Peñón de Alhucemas, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera Area - comparative: slightly more than twice the size of Oregon Land boundaries: total: 1,917.8 km border countries: Andorra 63.7 km, France 623 km, Gibraltar 1.2 km, Portugal 1,214 km, Morocco (Ceuta) 6.3 km, Morocco (Melilla) 9.6 km Coastline: 4,964 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nautical miles exclusive economic zone: 200 nautical miles (applies only to the Atlantic Ocean) territorial sea: 12 nautical miles Climate: temperate; clear, hot summers in interior, more moderate and cloudy along coast; cloudy, cold winters in interior, partly.
Geiseric - months of bitter fighting. The next year, Roman Emperor Valentinian III recognized Geiseric as king of the lands he and his men had conquered. In 439, after casting a covetous eye on the great city of Carthage for a decade, he took the city, apparently without any fighting. The Romans were caught unaware, and Geiseric captured a large part of the western Roman navy docked in the port of Carthage. Added to his own burgeoning fleet, the Kingdom of the Vandals now threatened the Empire for mastery of the Mediterranean Sea. Carthage, meanwhile, became the new Vandal capital and an enemy of Rome for the first time since the Punic Wars. With the help of their fleet, the Vandals soon subdued Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and the Balearic Islands. Geiseric strengthened the.
Gnaeus Pompeius - on September 29 of the same year. After the murder, Gnaeus and his brother Sextus joined resistance against Caesar in the Africa provinces. Together with Metellus Scipio, Cato the younger and other senators, they prepared to oppose Caesar and his army to the end. Caesar won the first battle at (Thapsus) in 46 BC, against Metellus Scipio and Cato, who committed suicide. Gnaeus escaped once again, this time to the Balearic Islands, where he joined Sextus. Together with Titus Labienus, former general in Caesar's army, the Pompey brothers cross over to Hispania provinces, where they raised yet another army. Caesar and his legions soon follow and, on March 17, 45 BC the armies met in the battle of Munda. Both armies were very strong in numbers and led by able generals..
Formentera - Formentera is the smallest and most southerly island of the Balearic Islands group; it is one of the two Illes Pitiüses, along with Ibiza. It is 19 kilometres long and is located approximately 3 nautical miles south of Ibiza in the Mediterranean Sea. The island can only be reached by ship, so relatively few tourists come to this location, making it a much quieter place than the other islands in the region. It is best known for the fact that nude sunbathing is allowed on most of its beaches. Formentera comprises one municipality, also called Formentera, and has a population of 7,461 (2002). It is part of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. see also other Islands of the world.
Demographics of Spain - male: 75.32 years female: 82.49 years (2000 est.) Total fertility rate: 1.15 children born/woman (2000 est.) Nationality: noun: Spaniard(s) adjective: Spanish Ethnic groups: composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types Religions: Roman Catholic 99%, other 1% Languages: Castilian Spanish (official) 74% Catalan 17% (coofficial in Catalonia, Balearic Islands, and Valencia - see Valencian) Galician 7% (coofficial in Galicia) Basque 2% (coofficial in Basque Country). Aranese (a variant of Gascon Occitan) is coofficial in Val d'Aran, a small valley of the Pyreenes. Others with no official status: Asturian (in Asturias and part of Leon province) Aragonese (in Huesca province, Aragon) Berber (Ceuta and Melilla) Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97% male: NA% female: NA% See also : Spain.
Denia - by the French who occupied the city for four years during the War of the Spanish Succession in the early 19th century. Denia was home to a community of English raisin traders who lived their from 1800 until the Spanish Civil War. The fort at Denia overlooking the city Denia's other claim to fame is that the ferry to Ibiza and the other Balearic Islands departs there. It is also at the end of a picturesque metre gauge railway line to Alicante run by FGV..
