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This is a list of famous Balearic people (people from the Balearic Islands, one of the Autonomous Communities of Spain). Álex Abrines (born 1993), basketball player; Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda (1862–1932), linguist and folk tale writer; Simón Andreu (born 1941), actor; Miquel Barceló (born 1957), painter
The official name of the Balearic Islands in Catalan is Illes Balears, while in Spanish, they are known as the Islas Baleares.. The ancient Greeks usually adopted local names into their own language, but they called the islands Γυμνησίαι / Gymnesiai, unlike either the native inhabitants of the islands, the Carthaginians, or the Romans, who called them Βαλεαρεῖς, with the ...
Mallorca, [a] or Majorca, [b] [2] [3] is the largest of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Balearic Islands have been an autonomous region of Spain since 1983. [4]
This list of islands in Spain encapsulates the country's islands both within its territorial borders and its overseas possessions. The total number of islands is 179. The total number of islands is 179.
Palma (Catalan:, also; [4] Spanish:), also known as Palma de Mallorca (officially between 1983 and 1988, 2006–2008, and 2012–2016), [5] is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. [6] It is situated on the south coast of Mallorca on the Bay of Palma.
After Catalonia, the Balearic Islands was the second most popular region of Spain for tourists last year, attracting 14.4 million holidaymakers, the Spanish National Statistics Institute said.
Puigpunyent (Balearic Catalan: [ˌputʃpuˈɲent], locally [ˌpujpuˈɲent]) is a municipality in western Majorca, one of the Balearic Islands, in Spain. It is located amidst the Tramuntana Mountains. It is a short distance away from Palma, the island's capital, and offers a serene retreat from urban life.
The Balearic slingers were among the first people to inhabit and colonize the Balearic Islands. Calvià first appears in history as a village 2,000 years BCE, although the area was first populated in the Neolithic Era. [14] Later, sailors coming from the east stopped in the Balearics on their way to the Iberian Peninsula, where they sought metals.