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Agullana
Agullana () is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situate ..., Spain. Notable people * Francesca Torrent (1881-1958), writer References External links Government data pages Municipalities in Alt Empordà Populated places in Alt Empordà {{Girona-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesca Torrent
Francesca Torrent Boschdemont (Agullana, Alt Empordà, April 18, 1881 – Barcelona, April 15, 1958) was a Spanish writer in the Catalan language. She sometimes used the pseudonym Miosotis. Early life and education Francesca Torrent Boschdemont was born at the Can Genís farmhouse in Agullana, into a family of rural landowners. After an early education that included religious and moral training, she moved to Girona to study teaching, although she never worked as a teacher. Career From a very young age, influenced by her paternal grandfather, the poet Joaquim Torrent, she began publishing poetry and prose on rural and traditional themes in publications such as ''El Correo de Gerona'', ''Lo Geronés'', ''Gente Nueva'', ''El Deber'', and ''El Tradicionalista''. Coinciding with the appearance of the first Catalan-language magazines for women, Torrent began contributing to ''Oro y Grana'' and '' Feminal''. In 1907, she married Jeroni Figa Sala, with whom she had 10 children. The coup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alt Empordà
Alt Empordà (; ; "Upper Empordà") is a Comarques of Catalonia, comarca (county) located in the Comarques Gironines, Girona region, in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of two comarques into which Empordà was divided by the comarca division of Catalonia in 1936,:ca:Divisió comarcal de 1936 the other one being Baix Empordà. The capital is the municipality of Figueres. Municipalities County council References External links IDESCAT: statistical information about Alt Empordà Official comarcal web site Alt Empordà guide ''Setmanari de l'Alt Empordà'' ''Tramuntana TV''. Figueres & Alt Empordà online TV. Video news {{DEFAULTSORT:Alt Emporda Alt Empordà, Comarques of the Province of Girona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Catalonia
Catalonia is (as of 2018) divided into 947 Municipalities of Spain, municipalities. Each municipality typically represents one significant urban settlement, of any size from village to city, with its surrounding land. This is not always the case, though. Many municipalities have merged as a result of rural depopulation or simply for greater efficiency. Some large urban areas, for example Barcelona, consist of more than one municipality, each of which previously held a separate settlement. The Catalan government encourages mergers of very small municipalities; its "Report on the revision of Catalonia's territorial organisation model" (the ""), published in 2000 but not yet implemented, recommends many such mergers. Larger municipalities may sometimes grant the status of ''minor local entity, decentralised municipal entity'' (, ) to one or more of its settlements, for more effective provision of services or to substitute for its previous status as a separate municipality. Each m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureillas-las-Illas
Maureillas-las-Illas (; ) is a rural Communes of France, commune in the Vallespir, Pyrénées-Orientales in the south of France. The commune belongs to the ''Communauté de communes'' of Vallespir uniting Maureillas-las-Illas with nine other communes. Geography Localisation Maureillas-las-Illas is located in the canton of Vallespir-Albères and in the arrondissement of Céret. It lies east of Céret and north of the Spanish border. Surrounding communes Land relief Hydrography Toponymy ;Names The first mention of the village under the name ''Maurelianum'' was in 1011. The name is then written as ''Maurelanis'' in the 12th century, ''Maurellans'' and ''Maurellas'' in the 15th century and finally ''Maurallas'' or ''Maurellas'' since the 17th century.Lluís Basseda, Toponymie historique de Catalunya Nord, t. 1, Prades, Revista Terra Nostra, 1990, 796 p. ''Maurellas'' is the Catalan spelling, ''Maureillas'' is its French transcription. ;Etymology Maureillas is probab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Vajol
La Vajol () is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situate ..., Spain. References External links Government data pages Municipalities in Alt Empordà {{Girona-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darnius
Darnius () is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of the Alt Empordà in Girona, Catalonia, Spain. The first document where is related Darnius was dated in 983, and the written name was ''Darnicibus''. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the main economic activity was the manufacturing of the cork. Interesting places * Dòlmen del Mas Puig de Caneres (''Megalithic A megalith is a large Rock (geology), stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. More than 35,000 megalithic structures have been identified across Europe, ranging ... monument'') * Església de Santa Maria * Ermita de Sant Esteve del Llop * Castell de Mont-roig * Pantà de Darnius/Boadella (''Reservoir'') References External links Official websiteGovernment data pages Municipalities in Alt Empordà Populated places in Alt Empordà {{Girona-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capmany
Capmany () or Campmany is a village and municipality in the ''comarca'' of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situate ..., Spain. The earliest recorded name for the village is Campmany, derived from the Latin ''Campus Magnus'' meaning "big field", but this became corrupted into Capmany ("big head") which is now the official name of the village, though the name Campmany is also commonly used. References External links * Government data pages Municipalities in Alt Empordà {{Girona-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Jonquera
La Jonquera (; ) is a municipality in the ''Comarques of Catalonia, comarca'' of Alt Empordà, l'Alt Empordà, in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated next to the border with Northern Catalonia, nowadays France, opposite the municipality of Le Perthus. History The area has always been an important passage through the Pyrenees. The contemporary AP-7 highway extends not far from the ancient Roman road, the Via Augusta. Nearby there is an altar erected by Pompey on the Coll de Panissars. The name comes precisely from the Roman mansion of Iuncaria, which is not located under the current population but several kilometers away, in Figueres, Figueras.6 La Junquera was the scene of a conflict involving retreating French Crusades, crusaders in 1285 that ended in their defeat. From the 13th century until the end of the Manorialism, manorial regime, in the mid-19th century, it was the possession of the Rocabertí family. The Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) placed the new border between the Spani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girona (province)
The Province of Girona ( ; ) is a province in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. It is bordered on the northwest by the province of Lleida, on the southwest by the province of Barcelona, on the north by France (Pyrénées-Orientales), and on the east by the Mediterranean Sea. The population of the province in 2016 was 739,607. Its capital and largest city is Girona, with an urban area (including the neighbouring municipalities of Salt, Sarrià de Ter and Vilablareix) representing, with a total population of 144,709, 19.2% of the population. The Girona area acts as an industrial, commercial and service hub for a significant part of the province. Municipalities of Girona The province has 222 municipalities, including Girona city (population 96,722), Figueres (pop. 44,765), Lloret de Mar (pop. 40,282), Blanes (pop. 39,834), Olot (33,725), Salt (pop. 30,389), Palafrugell (pop. 22,816) and Sant Feliu de Guíxols (pop. 21,814), as well as so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situated on the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Pyrenees mountain range. Catalonia is administratively divided into four Provinces of Spain, provinces or eight Vegueries of Catalonia, ''vegueries'' (regions), which are in turn divided into 43 Comarques of Catalonia, ''comarques''. The capital and largest city, Barcelona, is the second-most populous Municipalities in Spain, municipality in Spain and the fifth-most populous List of metropolitan areas in Europe, urban area in the European Union. > > > ''Catalonia'' theoretically derived. During the Middle Ages, Byzantine Empire, Byzantine chroniclers claimed that ''Catalania'' derives from the local medley of Goths with Alans, initially constituting a ''Goth-Alania''. Othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Spain
The municipality (, , , , , )In other languages of Spain: *Catalan language, Catalan/Valencian (), grammatical number, sing. . *Galician language, Galician () or (), grammatical number, sing. /. *Basque language, Basque (), grammatical number, sing. . *Asturian language, Asturian (), grammatical number, sing. . is one of the two fundamental territorial divisions in Spain, the other being the Provinces of Spain, provinces. Organisation Although provinces of Spain, provinces are groupings of municipality, municipalities, there is no implied hierarchy or primacy of one over the other. Instead the two entities are defined according to the authority or jurisdiction of each (). Some autonomous communities also group municipalities into entities known as ''comarcas of Spain, comarcas'' (districts) or ''mancomunidades'' (commonwealths). The governing body in most municipalities is called ''Ayuntamiento (Spain), ayuntamiento'' (municipal council or municipal corporation, corpora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sovereign States
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, two United Nations General Assembly observers#Current non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and ten other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and one UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (15 states, of which there are six UN member states, one UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and eight de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (two states, both in associated state, free association with New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
