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Borges (Spanish:, European Portuguese: [ˈbɔɾʒɨʃ]) is a Portuguese and Spanish surname. Jorge Luis Borges , the most notable person with this name, notes that his family name, like Burgess in English, means "of the town", "bourgeois".
The Spanish version of the surname is a variant of Borges, or a toponymic surname from El Borge. The Norwegian-Danish version is a variant of Borg , meaning 'fortification'. [ 1 ] Notable people with the surname include:
Borges Haslam was a lawyer and psychology teacher who harboured literary aspirations. Borges said his father "tried to become a writer and failed in the attempt", despite the 1921 opus El caudillo. Jorge Luis Borges wrote, "As most of my people had been soldiers and I knew I would never be, I felt ashamed, quite early, to be a bookish kind of ...
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine writer. Borges may also refer to: Borges (surname) Les Borges Blanques, capital of Les Garrigues, Catalonia, Spain; Les Borges del Camp, Baix Camp, Catalonia, Spain; Borges Importadora, Brazilian TV series.
They were from Xàtiva, Kingdom of Valencia, the surname being a toponymic from the town of Borja, then in the Crown of Aragon, in Spain. The Borgias became prominent in ecclesiastical and political affairs in the 15th and 16th centuries, producing two popes: Alfons de Borja , who ruled as Pope Callixtus III during 1455–1458, and Rodrigo ...
Pages in category "Portuguese-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 405 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Jorge Guillermo Borges studied law but did not practice. He was a friend of Macedonio Fernández, who became friends with Borges's son. He planned a commune for individualist anarchists in Paraguay. Borges wrote a novel, El Caudillo, published in 1921. [2] Borges had maternal ancestral roots in Staffordshire, England.
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