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The Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana (also called Enciclopedia Espasa, or Enciclopedia Espasa-Calpe, after its publisher, founded by José Espasa Anguera) is a Spanish encyclopedia. It comprises 72 volumes (numbered from 1 to 70, with parts 18 and 28 consisting of two volumes each) published from 1908 to 1930 plus a ten-volume ...
Espasa-Calpe was a Spanish publisher which existed during the 20th century. It was created in 1925, [1] by the union of Editorial Calpe, founded by Nicolás María de Urgoiti in 1918, [2] and Editorial Espasa, founded by José and Pau Espasa i Anguera in 1860. [3] The publisher, named Espasa-Calpe, was owned by Papelera Española.
The magnitude of this enterprise eventually overwhelmed the publishing house and in 1925 they associated with Calpe; the head offices were moved to Madrid, and the direction of the company was given to José Ortega y Gasset. [1] Espasa's legacy lives on today as the Espasa-Calpe publishing house—a major publisher of Spanish reference books.
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The Diccionario de la lengua española [a] (DLE; [b] English: Dictionary of the Spanish language) is the authoritative dictionary of the Spanish language. [1] It is produced, edited, and published by the Royal Spanish Academy , with the participation of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language .
Calpe (Spanish:; Valencian: Calp) [2] [3] is a coastal municipality located in the comarca of Marina Alta, in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea. It has an area of 23.5 km 2 (9.1 sq mi) and a population density of 990 inhabitants per square kilometre (2,600/sq mi).
Royal Calpe Hunt, formerly Civil Hunt, Civil Calpe Hunt and Calpe Hunt, a fox-hunting club based in Gibraltar, which existed during the 19th and 20th centuries; Calpe (Bithynia), a city of ancient Bithynia in Asia Minor; Calpe (river), a river of ancient Bithynia in Asia Minor; HMS Calpe, two ships of the Royal Navy; Espasa Calpe, Spanish book ...
The Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana (in English, Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language) is an etymological dictionary compiled by the Catalan philologist Joan Corominas (1905–1997), and first published in 1961—with revised editions in 1967, 1973, 1993, and 2008—by Gredos in Madrid.