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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
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]
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 ...
Spain owned several Pacific islands as part of the Spanish East Indies.After its defeat in the Spanish–American War of 1898, it lost the Philippines. The German–Spanish Treaty (1899) sold the Carolinas, Marianas and Palau to the German Empire.
In British English, the name is usually pronounced in an approximation of the Peninsular Spanish variant (/ ɪ ˈ b iː θ ə / ib-EE-thə). [4] In American English, the pronunciation is closer to the Latin American Spanish variant (/ ɪ ˈ b iː z ə / ib-EE-zə, [5] / iː ˈ b iː s ə / ee-BEE-sə, [6] [7] [8] and so forth) and the first syllable is never pronounced as a homophone of "eye".
The former first lady was spotted getting on a yacht in Mallorca, Spain, earlier this week and looked better than ever. RELATED: Beyonce Turns 36! Michelle Obama, Blue Ivy & More Celebrate by ...
Santanyí (Catalan pronunciation: [səntəˈɲi]) is a municipality on the Spanish island of Majorca, one of the Balearic Islands, situated in the westernmost part of the Mediterranean Sea.
Port of Ciutadella. It was founded by the Carthaginians, and became the seat of a bishop in the 4th century.After being governed by the Moors under the names of Medīna el Jezīra (Arabic: مدينة الجزيرة) and Medīna Menūrqa (مدينة منورقة) for several centuries, Ciutadella was recaptured during the reconquista by men serving Alfonso III and became part of the Crown of ...