Catalan may refer to:

Catalonia

From, or related to

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 ...

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Catalan language Catalan () is a Western Romance languages, Western Romance language and is the official language of Andorra, and the official language of three autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous communities in eastern Spain: Catalonia, the Balearic I ...

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Catalans Catalans ( Catalan, French and Occitan: ''catalans''; ; ; or ) are a Romance ethnic group native to Catalonia, who speak Catalan. The current official category of "Catalans" is that of the citizens of Catalonia, a nationality and autono ...

, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia

Places

* 13178 Catalan, asteroid #13178, named "Catalan" * Catalán (crater), a lunar crater named for Miguel Ángel Catalán * Çatalan, İvrindi, a village in Balıkesir province, Turkey * Çatalan, Karaisalı, a village in Adana Province, Turkey * Catalan Bay, Gibraltar * Catalan Sea, more commonly known as the Balearic Sea * Catalan Mediterranean System, the Catalan Mountains

Facilities and structures

* Çatalan Bridge, Adana, Turkey * Çatalan Dam, Adana, Turkey * Catalan Batteries, Gibraltar

People

* Catalan, Lord of Monaco (1415–1457), Lord of Monaco from 1454 until 1457 * Alfredo Catalán (born 1968), Venezuelan politician * Alex Catalán (born 1968), Spanish filmmaker * Arnaut Catalan (1219–1253), troubador * Diego Catalán (1928–2008), Spanish philologist * Emilio Arenales Catalán (1922–1969) Guatemalan politician * Eugène Charles Catalan (1814–1894), French and Belgian mathematician * Miguel A. Catalán (1894–1957), Spanish spectroscopist * Moses Chayyim Catalan (died 1661), Italian rabbi * Sergio Catalán (born 1991) Chilean soccer player

Mathematics

Mathematical concepts named after mathematician Eugène Catalan: *

Catalan number The Catalan numbers are a sequence of natural numbers that occur in various Enumeration, counting problems, often involving recursion, recursively defined objects. They are named after Eugène Charles Catalan, Eugène Catalan, though they were p ...

s, a sequence of natural numbers that occur in various counting problems * Catalan solids, a family of polyhedra * Catalan's constant, a number that occurs in estimates in combinatorics * Catalan's conjecture

Wine

* Catalan (grape), another name for the wine grape Mourvèdre * Catalan wine, an alternative name used in France for wine made from the Carignan grape ** Carignan, a wine grape that is also known as Catalan

Sports and games

* Catalan Opening, in chess * Catalan Open, golf tournament * Catalans Dragons, a rugby league team often known simply as ''Catalan'' * XIII Catalan, a rugby league team from Perpignan, France

Other uses

* Battle of Catalán (1817) in Uruguay * Catalan Sheepdog * Catalan Company, medieval mercenary company *

Catalan vault The Catalan vault (), also called thin-tile vault, Catalan turn, Catalan arch, boveda ceiling (Spanish ''bóveda'' 'vault'), or timbrel vault, is a type of low brickwork arch forming a vaulted ceiling that often supports a floor above. It is co ...

, architectural design element * '' The Catalans'', a 1953 novel by

Patrick O'Brian Patrick O'Brian (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series. These sea novels are set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and ...