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Cover of the 1761 book entitled Historia del venerable, y antiquissimo Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Valvanera, in the province of La Rioja, by Benito Rubio. [1]The etymology of the toponym Rioja, which is named after the autonomous community of La Rioja and which inherited lands populated by people from La Rioja in the past, such as the province of La Rioja and its capital in Argentina, a ...
Rioja (pronounced) is a wine region in Spain, with denominación de origen calificada (D.O.Ca., "Qualified Designation of Origin," the highest category in Spanish wine regulation). Rioja wine is made from grapes grown in the autonomous communities of La Rioja and Navarre, and the Basque province of Álava. Rioja is further subdivided into three ...
Old Riojan is an extinct variety of Navarro-Aragonese which was spoken in northeastern medieval La Rioja. This variety went extinct due to a rapid mixture with Castilian following La Rioja falling into the control of Crown of Castile. Latin had been spoken in La Rioja after 218 BC, following the Second Punic War.
The etymology of the toponym Rioja is complex and has been much discussed. The main theories point to different origins: the traditional popular one that makes it correspond to the river Oja, the one that points to the term Rivalia that would be translated as "land of streams", the one that points as germ a nominal tautology in the term rivo Ohia that would mean "river of fluvial bed"; and the ...
University of La Rioja; Etymology of La Rioja; Rioja, Almería, Spain; Rioja Province (Peru) Rioja District, one of the districts of Rioja Province; Rioja, Peru, the capital of the Rioja Province; La Rioja, Argentina. La Rioja Province, Argentina, the province of which the Argentine city of La Rioja is the capital of. National University of La ...
Tempranillo is the major component of the typical Rioja blends and constitutes 90-100% of Ribera del Duero wines. [1] In Australia, Tempranillo is blended with Grenache and Shiraz, also known as Syrah. In Portugal, where it is known as Tinta Roriz, it is a major grape in the production of some Port wines. [17]
In it, La Rioja Alavesa is mentioned, together with its denomination of Sonsierra de Navarra. According to the map: Map of La Rioja divided into Upper and Lower Rioja, with the part of the Sonsierra, which is commonly called Rioja Alavesa. The territory covered by the map was, at that time, assigned to the intendancies of Burgos, Soria and ...
Armiger: La Rioja: Adopted: 1985: Crest: Spanish Royal Crown: Shield: Per pale 1 or, a cross of St. James gules between two escallops argent fimbriated gules, in base a mount vert; 2 gules a castle, on a bridge, or on a river barry wavy argent and azure; all within a bordure azure charged with three fleurs-de-lis or.