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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]
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Cala Agulla is a beach in Majorca, Spain. It was declared a Àrea natural d'especial interès in 1991 by the Parliament of the Balearic Islands. [1] References
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 ...
The rough coastline is interrupted by several bays with sandy beaches. From east to west these are: Cala Esmeralda ('emerald green'), Cala Gran ('big'), the namesake Cala d'Or (bay and beach), ('golden', also called Caló de ses Dones) and Cala Llonga ('long', also called Cala d'es Forti) with its small Caló d'es Pou.
This municipality in the southeast of Majorca is home to the towns of Santanyí, Calonge, s'Alqueria Blanca and es Llombards, as well as Cala d'Or, Portopetro, Cap d'es Moro, Cala Figuera, Cala Santanyí, Cala Llombards and Cala de s'Almunia. The municipality encompasses a variety of beaches popular for their scenery.
In 1948, Emilio Pastor Santos of the Spanish National Research Council found that the charts and maps up to 1899 had shown that Kapingamarangi and a few other islands had never been considered part of the Caroline Islands, were not included in the description of the territory transferred to Germany and were never ceded by Spain; therefore ...
Cabrera (Balearic Catalan: [kəˈbɾeɾə], Spanish: [kaˈβɾeɾa], Latin: Capraria) is an island in the Balearic Islands, Spain located in the Mediterranean Sea off the southern coast of Mallorca. A National Park, [1] its highest point is Na Picamosques (172 m). Uninhabited, it’s administratively part of the city of Palma in Mallorca.