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The Balearic Islands (Catalan and official:^[1] Illes Balears; Spanish: Islas Baleares) are an archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. They form an autonomous community and a province of Spain, of which the capital city is Palma de Mallorca. The co-official languages in the Balearic Islands are Spanish and Catalan (i.e. mallorquí, menorquí and eivissenc, as Catalan is known by its speakers in this territory). Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Balearic_Islands. ... Image File history File links Escudo_de_las_Islas_Baleares. ... Image File history File links LocalitzaciÃ³_de_les_Illes_Balears. ... Not to be confused with capitol. ... Location Coordinates : Time zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer : CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Palma (CatalÃ¡n) Spanish name Palma de Mallorca Nickname Ciutat Postal code 070XX Area code 34 (Spain) + 971 (Balearic Islands) Website http://www. ... 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1 Etymology
2 History of the archipelago
- 2.1 Ancient history
- 2.2 Post Roman Empire and Aragonese conquest
3 Geography, politics and culture
4 Trivia
5 References
6 See also
7 External links

Etymology

The Balearic islands /ˈbeɪ̯lɪˌæɹɪk ˈaɪ̯ləndz/ have many names, in many languages. (Catalan: "Illes Balears" /ˈiʎəz bəɫeˈaː(r)s/, Spanish: "Islas Baleares", /ˈis·las·ba·leˈaː·res/, Greek: Gymnesiae – Γυμνησίαι, Βαλλιαρεῖς, Diod. v. 17, Eustath. ad Dion. 457; Βαλιαρεῖς, Βαλιαρίδες, Steph. B.; Βαλεαρίδες, Strabo; Βαλλιαρίδες, Ptol. ii. 6. § 78; Βαλεαρίαι, Agathem., Latin: Baleares) Catalan IPA: (catalÃ IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ... Diodorus Siculus was a Greek historian, born at Agyrium in Sicily (now called Agira, in the province of Enna). ... Stephanus Byzantinus (Stephanus of Byzantium), the author of a geographical dictionary entitled Εθνικα (Ethnica), of which, apart from some fragments, we possess only the meagre epitome of one Hermolaus. ... The Greek geographer Strabo in a 16th century engraving. ... This article is about the geographer, mathematician and astronomer Ptolemy. ... Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...

There are various theories on the origins of the two ancient Greek and Latin names for the islands – Gymnasiae and Baleares. Two survive in classical sources.

According to one account, the islands were called Gymnesiae (gymnos means naked in Greek) because its inhabitants were often nude.^{[citation needed]}

The Greek and Roman writers generally derive the name of the people from their skill as slingers (baleareis, βαλεαρεῖς, from ballo, βάλλω), although Strabo considered the name to be of Phoenician origin. He observed that it was the Phoenician equivalent for the Greek word for lightly-armoured soldiers (γυμνῆτας)^[2] The Greek geographer Strabo in a 16th century engraving. ...

The root bal does point to a Phoenician origin; perhaps the islands were sacred to the god Baal; and the accidental resemblance to the Greek root ΒΑΛ (in βάλλω), coupled with the occupation of the people, would be quite a sufficient foundation for the usual Greek practice of assimilating the name to their own language. That it was not, however, Greek at first, may be inferred with great probability from the fact that the common Greek name of the islands is not βαλεαρεῖς, but Γυμνησίαι, the former being the name used by the natives, as well as by the Carthaginians and Romans. (Plin.; Agathem.; Dion Cass. ap. Tzetz. ad Lycophr. 533; Eustath.) The latter name, of which two fancied etymologies have been already referred to, is probably derived from the light equipment of the Balearic troops (γυμνῆτας).^[2] For other uses, see Baal (disambiguation). ...

History of the archipelago

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Ancient history

There is little history on the earliest inhabitants of the islands, though many legends exist. The story, preserved by Lycophron, that certain shipwrecked Boeotians were cast nude on the islands, was evidently invented to account for the name Gymnesiae. There is also a tradition that the islands were colonized from Rhodes after the Trojan war.^[2] Lycophron was a Greek poet and grammarian. ... Boeotia or Beotia (//, (Greek Î’Î¿Î¹Ï‰Ï„Î¹Î±; see also list of traditional Greek place names) was the central area of ancient Greece. ... This article is about the Greek island of Rhodes. ... The fall of Troy, by Johann Georg Trautmann (1713â€“1769). ...

The islands had a very mixed population, of whose habits several strange stories are told. In some stories, it is said that the people went naked or were clothed only in sheep-skins — whence the name of the islands (an instance of folk etymology) — until the Phoenicians clothed them with broad-bordered tunics. In other stories they were naked only in the heat of summer. Folk etymology is a term used in two distinct ways: A commonly held misunderstanding of the origin of a particular word, a false etymology. ... Phoenicia was an ancient civilization in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal plain of what is now Lebanon and Syria. ...

Other legends hold that the inhabitants lived in hollow rocks and artificial caves, that they were remarkable for their love of women would give three or four men as the ransom for one woman, that they had no gold or silver coin, and forbade the importation of the precious metals, so that those of them who served as mercenaries took their pay in wine and women instead of money. Their marriage and funeral customs, peculiar to Roman observers, are related by Diodorus (v. 18).

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In ancient times, the islanders of the Gymnesian Islands constructed talayots, and were famous for their skill with the sling. As slingers they served, as mercenaries, first under the Carthaginians, and afterwards under the Romans. They went into battle ungirt, with only a small buckler, and a javelin burnt at the end, and in some cases tipped with a small iron point; but their effective weapons were their slings, of which each man carried three, wound round his head (Strabo p. 168; Eustath.), or, as others tell us, one round the head, one round the body, and one in the hand. (Diodorus) The three slings were of different lengths, for stones of different sizes; the largest they hurled with as much force as if it were flung from a catapult; and they seldom missed their mark. To this exercise they were trained from infancy, in order to earn their livelihood as mercenary soldiers. It is said that the mothers only allowed their children to eat bread when they had struck it off a post with the sling. (Strabo; Diod.; Flor. iii. 8; Tzetz. ad Lycophr.) Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1013x636, 292 KB) Mapa de las islas Baleares. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1013x636, 292 KB) Mapa de las islas Baleares. ... The talayots are Bronze Age stone towers on the islands of Minorca and Majorca. ... Home-made sling. ... This article is about the ancient city-state of Carthage in North Africa. ... Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ...

The Phoenicians took possession of the islands in very early times (Strabo iii. pp. 167, 168); a remarkable trace of their colonization is preserved in the town of Mago (Mahon in Minorca). After the fall of Carthage, the islands seem to have been virtually independent. Notwithstanding their celebrity in war, the people were generally very quiet and inoffensive. (Strabo; but Florus gives them a worse character, iii. 8.) The Romans, however, easily found a pretext for charging them with complicity with the Mediterranean pirates, and they were conquered by Q. Caecilius Metellus, thence surnamed Balearicus, in 123 BC. (Livy Epit. Ix.; Freinsh. Supp. lx. 37; Florus, Strabo ll. cc.) Metellus settled 3,000 Roman and Spanish colonists on the larger island, and founded the cities of Palma and Pollentia. (Strabo, Mela, Pliny the Elder) The islands belonged, under the Roman Empire, to the conventus of Carthago Nova (modern Cartagena), in the province of Hispania Tarraconensis, of which province they formed, the fourth district, under the government of a praefectus pro legato. An inscription of the time of Nero mentions the PRAEF. PRAE LEGATO INSULAR. BALIARUM. (Orelli, No. 732, who, with Muratori, reads pro for prae.) They were afterwards made a separate province, probably in the division of the empire under Constantine. (Notitia Dignitatum Occid. c. xx. vol. ii. p. 466, Böcking.) Municipality of MahÃ³n MahÃ³n (alternately, MaÃ³; Catalan it is also the official name, Spanish MahÃ³n), is a municipality and the capital city of the Balearic Island of Minorca (an autonomic Spanish community), located in the eastern part of the island. ... Capital MaÃ³ Official languages Catalan & Spanish Area - Total 694. ... For other uses, see Carthage (disambiguation). ... Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus (b. ... Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC - 120s BC - 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC Years: 128 BC 127 BC 126 BC 125 BC 124 BC - 123 BC - 122 BC 121 BC... A portrait of Titus Livius made long after his death. ... The Caecilii Metellii was one of the most important and wealthiest families in the Roman Republic. ... Location Coordinates : Time zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer : CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Palma (CatalÃ¡n) Spanish name Palma de Mallorca Nickname Ciutat Postal code 070XX Area code 34 (Spain) + 971 (Balearic Islands) Website http://www. ... Pollenza is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Macerata in the Italian region Marche, located about 40 km southwest of Ancona and about 9 km southwest of Macerata. ... For Mela Festivals today, see Mela Festival. ... Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19th Century portrait. ... For other uses, see Roman Empire (disambiguation). ... Carthago Nova (New Carthage, Carthage already meaning new city in Punic) is the Latin name of the most important Carthaginian coastal trading colony in Spain. ... Map of the Roman Empire, with the provinces, after 120. ... Roman Imperial province of Hispania Tarraconensis, 120 AD Hispania Tarraconensis was one of three Roman provinces in Hispania. ... For other uses, see Nero (disambiguation). ... Look up Constantine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Notitia Dignitatum is a unique document of the Roman imperial chanceries. ...

The two largest islands (the Balearic Islands, in their historical sense) had numerous excellent harbours, though rocky at their mouth, and requiring care in entering them (Strabo, Eustath.; Port Mahon is one of the finest harbours in the world). Both were extremely fertile in all produce, except wine and olive oil. (Aristot. de Mir. Ausc. 89; Diodorus, but Pliny praises their wine as well as their corn, xiv. 6. s. 8, xviii. 7. s. 12: the two writers are speaking, in fact, of different periods.) They were celebrated for their cattle, especially for the mules of the lesser island; they had an immense number of rabbits, and were free from all venomous reptiles. (Strabo, Mela; Pliny l. c., viii. 58. s. 83, xxxv. 19. s. 59; Varro, R. R. iii. 12; Aelian, H. A. xiii. 15; Solin. 26.) Among the snails valued by the Romans as a diet, was a species from the Balearic isles, called cavaticae, from their being bred in caves. (Pliny xxx. 6. s. 15.) Their chief mineral product was the red earth, called sinope, which was used by painters. (Pliny xxxv. 6. s. 13; Vitruv. vii. 7.) Their resin and pitch are mentioned by Dioscorides (Materia Medica i. 92). The population of the two islands is stated by Diodorus at 30,000.

The part of the Mediterranean east of Spain, around the Balearic Isles, was called "Mare Balearicum" (τὸ Βαλλεαρικὸν πέλαγος, Ptol. ii 4. § 3), or "Sinus Balearicus". (Flor. iii. 6. § 9.) The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ...

Post Roman Empire and Aragonese conquest

In the chaos surrounding the fall of the Roman Empire, the islands were conquered by the Vandals. They were subsequently reconquered by the Byzantine Empire, but soon fell to the Moors after the their conquest of Iberia. Vandal and Vandali redirect here. ... Byzantine redirects here. ... For other uses, see moor. ...

Between 1113 and 1115, a Tuscan and Lombard fleet, led by Ugo da Parlascio Ebriaco and Archbishop Pietro Moriconi of the Republic of Pisa, made a successful expedition against the Balearic Islands. The expedition was launched with the support of Constantine I of Logudoro and his base of Porto Torres. Events Pierre AbÃ©lard opens his school in Paris End of Kyanzitthas reign in Myanmar Alaungsithus reign begins in Myanmar Suryavarman Is reign begins in the Khmer Empire Bridlington Priory founded Births August 24 - Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou (died 1151) Stefan Nemanja, Serbian Grand Zupan Deaths... Events Clairvaux Abbey is founded by St. ... For other uses, see Tuscany (disambiguation). ... For the village of the same name in Ontario, Canada, see Lombardy, Ontario. ... The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Pisa is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy. ... Pisa is a city in Tuscany, central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. ... Constantine I[1] (circa 1064 â€“ 1128) was the giudice of Logudoro. ... Porto Porres (locally Poltu Torra in Sassarese), is a town in northern Sardinia (province of Sassari), of about 20,000 inhabitants. ...

In the 13th century, king James I of Aragon conquered the islands which led to subsequent founding of the Kingdom of Mallorca, but in 1344 it ceased to exist and it was directly incorporated into the Crown of Aragon, which was later united dynastically with Castile as a result of the marriage of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon to become part of the newborn Spain. (12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. ... James I of Aragon. ... The Kingdom of Majorca (also Kingdom of Mallorca) was created by James I of Aragon (Jaume I, The Conqueror) as a vassal kingdom of the Kingdom of Aragon. ... Events English king Edward III introduces three new gold coins, the florin. ... Coat of arms of Aragon, 15th century The Crown of Aragon is a term used to refer to the permanent union of multiple titles and states in the hands of the King of Aragon. ... The starting point of Crown of Castile can be considered when the union of the Kingdoms of Castile and Leon in 1230 or the later fusion of their Cortes (their Parlaments). ... Isabella I of Castile (April 22, 1451 â€“ November 26, 1504) was Queen regnant of Castile and Leon. ... Ferdinand V of Castile & II of Aragon the Catholic (Spanish: , Catalan: , Aragonese: ; March 10, 1452 â€“ January 23, 1516) was king of Aragon (1479â€“1516), Castile, Sicily (1468â€“1516), Naples (1504â€“1516), Valencia, Sardinia and Navarre and Count of Barcelona. ...

The Balearic Islands were frequently attacked by Barbary pirates from North Africa, the Formentera was even temporarily left by its population. In 1514, 1515 and 1521 coasts of the Balearic Islands and the Spanish mainland were raided by Turkish privateer and Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Flag of Formentera Formentera is the smallest and southernmost island of the Illes PitiÃ¼ses group (which includes Eivissa (Ibiza) and Formentera) and belongs to the Balearic Islands autonomous community (Spain). ... 1514 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1515 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 3 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. ... For other uses, see Privateer (disambiguation). ... Motto Ø¯ÙˆÙ„Øª Ø§Ø¨Ø¯ Ù…Ø¯Øª Devlet-i Ebed-mÃ¼ddet (The Eternal State) Anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Borders in 1683, see: list of territories Capital SÃ¶ÄŸÃ¼t (1299â€“1326) Bursa (1326â€“1365) Edirne (1365â€“1453) Ä°stanbul (1453â€“1922) Government Monarchy Sultans - 1281â€“1326 (first) Osman I - 1918â€“22 (last) Mehmed VI Grand Viziers - 1320... Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha (Turkish: Barbaros Hayreddin PaÅŸa or HÄ±zÄ±r Hayreddin PaÅŸa; also HÄ±zÄ±r Reis before being promoted to the rank of Pasha and becoming the Kaptan-Ä± Derya (Fleet Admiral) of the Ottoman Navy) (c. ...

The island of Minorca was a British dependency most of the 18th century as a result of the Treaty of Utrecht, when Spain ceded Gibraltar and Minorca to Great Britain after being captured during the War of the Spanish Succession. It was finally and permanently ceded to Spain by the Treaty of Amiens in 1802 during the French Revolutionary Wars. Capital MaÃ³ Official languages Catalan & Spanish Area - Total 694. ... Dependent areas are territories that for some reason do not enjoy full independence or sovereignty as states. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... A map depicting the major changes in Western Europes borders as a result of the Treaties of Utrecht and Rastatt. ... Combatants Habsburg Empire England (1701-6) Great Britain (1707-14)[1] Dutch Republic Kingdom of Portugal Crown of Aragon Duchy of Savoy [2] Kingdom of France Kingdom of Spain Electorate of Bavaria Hungarian Rebels [3] Commanders Eugene of Savoy Margrave of Baden Count Starhemberg Duke of Marlborough Marquis de Ruvigny... The Treaty of Amiens was signed on March 25, 1802 (Germinal 4, year X in the French Revolutionary Calendar) by Joseph Bonaparte and the Marquis Cornwallis as a Definitive Treaty of Peace between France and the United Kingdom. ... Combatants Great Britain Austria Prussia Spain[1] Russia Sardinia Ottoman Empire Portugal Dutch Republic[2] France The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of major conflicts, from 1792 until 1802, fought between the French Revolutionary government and several European states. ...

Geography, politics and culture

View of the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range, Mallorca

The Balearic Islands are one of the Catalan-speaking territories designated by the cultural term of Catalan Countries. Majorca and Minorca are the Balearic Islands proper, while the other islands are included in the appellation as part of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands. The main islands of the autonomous community are Majorca (Mallorca in Catalan), Minorca (Menorca), Eivissa (Eivissa), and Formentera, all of which are popular tourist destinations. Among the minor islands is Cabrera, which is the location of the Parc Nacional de l'Arxipèlag de Cabrera. The islands can be further grouped, with Majorca, Minorca, and Cabrera as the Gymnesian Islands, and Eivissa and Formentera as the Pine Islands. Image File history File links SerraTramuntana2. ... Image File history File links SerraTramuntana2. ... For other uses, see Tramontana (disambiguation). ... Catalan IPA: (catalÃ IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ... Grafitti at Belfast. ... Majorca (Spanish and Catalan: ) is the largest island of Spain. ... Capital MaÃ³ Official languages Catalan & Spanish Area - Total 694. ... Autonomous communities of Spain. ... Majorca (Spanish and Catalan: ) is the largest island of Spain. ... Capital MaÃ³ Official languages Catalan & Spanish Area - Total 694. ... Eivissa or Ibiza is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea, and belonging to Spain. ... Flag of Formentera Formentera is the smallest and southernmost island of the Illes PitiÃ¼ses group (which includes Eivissa (Ibiza) and Formentera) and belongs to the Balearic Islands autonomous community (Spain). ... Cabrera (Latin: ) is one of the minor Balearic Islands belonging to Spain, just south of Majorca, in the Mediterranean Sea, at approximately 39Â° 9 N, 3Â° E. It is the largest of a small archipelago of islands and islets, including (from south to north) the Estells de Fora, LImperial... Cabrera (Latin: ) is one of the minor Balearic Islands belonging to Spain, just south of Majorca, in the Mediterranean Sea, at approximately 39Â° 9 N, 3Â° E. It is the largest of a small archipelago of islands and islets, including (from south to north) the Estells de Fora, LImperial... The collective name of the Gymnesian Islands (Catalan: Illes GimnÃ¨sies; Spanish: Islas Gimnesias) distinguishes the two largest (and eastern-most) Balearic islands (Majorca and Minorca), from the Pine Islands (Catalan Illes PitiÃ¼ses; Spanish Islas Pitiusas: Ibiza and Formentera). ... Pine Islands (Catalan Illes PitiÃ¼ses) is the name given collectively to the Balearic Islands of Ibiza (Eivissa) and Formentera, in the Mediterranean Sea. ...

Trivia

In 1935, the islands served as a transit stop for Air France Lioré et Olivier LeO H.242 flying boat heading to Algiers from Marseilles.

Illes Balears sponsors a professional cycling team in the UCI ProTour.

In 2007, the Islands became the first jurisdiction in the world to grant legal personhood to great apes. [1]

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References

^ Ley 3/1986, de 19 de abril, de normalización linguística. Ley 13/1997, de 25 de abril, por la que pasa a denominarse oficialmente Illes Balears la Provincia de Baleares. Ley Orgánica 1/2007, de 28 de febrero, de reforma del Estatuto de Autonomía de las Illes Balears.
^ ^a ^b ^c Strab. xiv. p. 654; Plin. l. c "The Rhodians, like the Baleares, were celebrated slingers"
Sil. Ital. iii. 364, 365: "Jam cui Tlepolemus sator, et cui Lindus origo, Funda bella ferens Balearis et alite plumbo."

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1857).

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Capital Valencia Official language(s) Valencian and Spanish Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 8th 23,255 kmÂ² 4. ... Valencian (valenciÃ ) is the historical, traditional, and official name used in the Valencian Community (Spain) to refer to the language spoken therein, also known as Catalan (catalÃ ) in the Spanish Autonomous Communities of Catalonia, Aragon and the Balearic Islands; in the country of Andorra; in the southern French region of... Carxe is a city in Spain. ... Valencian (valenciÃ ) is the historical, traditional, and official name used in the Valencian Community (Spain) to refer to the language spoken therein, also known as Catalan (catalÃ ) in the Spanish Autonomous Communities of Catalonia, Aragon and the Balearic Islands; in the country of Andorra; in the southern French region of... Language distribution in Aragon Map of Catalan Countries with current political borders Franja de Ponent (IPA: ; Catalan for Western Strip), Francha de LebÃ¡n (Aragonese for Eastern Strip), Franja de AragÃ³n, or simply La Franja, refers to four comarques in the east of the Autonomous Community of Aragon, which... Northern Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya Nord; Spanish: CataluÃ±a del Norte o CataluÃ±a Transpirenaica; French: Catalogne Nord or Pays Catalan) is the name mainly used by the Catalan-speaking community to refer to the part of the historic Principality of Catalonia that came under French governance through the signing of... Autonomous communities of Spain. ... For other uses, see Andalusia (disambiguation). ... Anthem: Himno de AragÃ³n Capital Zaragoza Official languages Spanish Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 4th 47,719 kmÂ² 9. ... Anthem: Asturias, patria querida Capital Oviedo Official language(s) Spanish; Asturian has special status Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 10th 10,604 kmÂ² 2. ... Pays Basque) see Northern Basque Country. ... This article is about the islands in the Atlantic Ocean. ... For the Mesozoic island Cantabria, see Cantabria (Mesozoic island). ... Capital Toledo Official language(s) Spanish Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 3rd 79,463 kmÂ² 15. ... Capital Valladolid Official language(s) Spanish/Castilian Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 94,223 kmÂ² 18. ... This article is about the Spanish Autonomous Community. ... Capital MÃ©rida Official languages Spanish; Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 5th 41,634 kmÂ² 8. ... Galicia (Spain) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia // @import /skins-1. ... Capital Madrid Official languages Spanish Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 12th 8,030. ... Capital Murcia Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 9th 11 313 kmÂ² 2,2% Population â€“ Total (2003) â€“ % of Spain â€“ Density Ranked 10th 1 226 993 2,9% 108,46/kmÂ² Demonym â€“ English â€“ Spanish Murcian murciano/a Statute of Autonomy June 9, 1982 ISO 3166-2 MU Parliamentary representation â€“ Congress seats â€“ Senate... â€œNavarraâ€ redirects here. ... La Rioja is a province and autonomous community of northern Spain. ... Capital Valencia Official language(s) Valencian and Spanish Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 8th 23,255 kmÂ² 4. ... Autonomous cities \| Plazas de soberanía** Ceuta · Melilla \| Islas Chafarinas · Peñón de Alhucemas · Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera · Isla de Alborán The Plazas de SoberanÃa. ... Capital Ceuta City Official language(s) Spanish Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 28 kmÂ² Population â€“ Total (2006) â€“ % of Spain â€“ Density Ranked 75,861 2,709. ... Capital Official language(s) Spanish Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 20 kmÂ² Population â€“ Total (2006) â€“ % of Spain â€“ Density Ranked 66,871 3,343. ... 19th-century Spanish map showing the Chafarinas. Islas Chafarinas are a group of three small islands located in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Morocco, 45 km to the east of Melilla and 3. ... 19th-century Spanish map showing the PeÃ±Ã³n de Alhucemas PeÃ±Ã³n de Alhucemas, or Lavender Rock, is one of the Spanish territories in North Africa off the Moroccan coast, along with the coastal enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, the island of PeÃ±Ã³n de VÃ©lez de la Gomera... PeÃ±Ã³n de VÃ©lez de la Gomera, seen from the Moroccan coast PeÃ±Ã³n de VÃ©lez de la Gomera is one of the Spanish territories on North Africa off the Moroccan coast (Plazas de soberanÃa), along with the coastal enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla (from which it... AlborÃ¡n Island The Isla de AlborÃ¡n is a small island in the AlborÃ¡n Sea, part of the western Mediterranean, about 50 kilometres north of the Moroccan coast and 90 kilometres south of the province of AlmerÃa, Spain. ...

v • d • e Provinces of Spain

B1a-%28province%29" onmouseover="pv(event, 262)" onmouseout="unpv(262)" style="">A Coruña / La Coruña · Álava · Albacete · Alicante · Almería · Asturias · Ávila · Badajoz · Balearic Islands · Barcelona · Biscay · Burgos · Cáceres · Cádiz · Cantabria · Castellón · Ceuta · Ciudad Real · Córdoba · Cuenca · Gerona / Girona · Granada · Guadalajara · Guipuscoa · Huelva · Huesca · Jaén · Las Palmas · León · Lérida / Lleida · Lugo · Madrid · Málaga · Melilla · Murcia · Navarre · Orense / Ourense · Palencia · Pontevedra · La Rioja · Salamanca · Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Segovia · Seville · Soria · Tarragona · Teruel · Toledo · Valencia · Valladolid · Zamora · Zaragoza Image File history File links Flag_of_Spain. ... In addition to its autonomous communities, Spain is divided into fifty provinces. ... A CoruÃ±a (also: La CoruÃ±a in Spanish, La Corogne in French and La Croyne and Corunna in English) is the most North-western Atlantic-facing province of Spain, and one of the four provinces which constitute the autonomous community of Galicia. ... Ãlava province Ãlava (Basque: Araba) is a province of northern Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. ... Albacete province Albacete is a province of central Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha. ... Location of Alicante province in Spain, in a deeper red shade within the Valencian Community. ... AlmerÃa province AlmerÃa is a province of southern Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. ... Anthem: Asturias, patria querida Capital Oviedo Official language(s) Spanish; Asturian has special status Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 10th 10,604 kmÂ² 2. ... Ãvila province Ãvila is a province of western Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Castile and LeÃ³n. ... Badajoz is a province of western Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Extremadura. ... Barcelona is a province of eastern Spain, in the center of the autonomous community of Catalonia. ... For other uses, see Biscay (disambiguation). ... Burgos province Burgos is a province of northern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Castile and LeÃ³n. ... CÃ¡ceres province CÃ¡ceres is a province of western Spain, in the northern part of the autonomous community of Extremadura. ... CÃ¡diz province CÃ¡diz is a province of southern Spain, in the southwestern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia, being the southernmost point of continental Western Europe. ... For the Mesozoic island Cantabria, see Cantabria (Mesozoic island). ... CastellÃ³n province. ... Capital Ceuta City Official language(s) Spanish Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 28 kmÂ² Population â€“ Total (2006) â€“ % of Spain â€“ Density Ranked 75,861 2,709. ... Ciudad Real is a province of central Spain, in the southwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile_La Mancha. ... CÃ³rdoba Province may refer to: CÃ³rdoba Province, Argentina CÃ³rdoba Province, Spain This is a disambiguation page â€” a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Cuenca province Cuenca is a province of central Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. ... Girona province. ... Granada province Granada is a province of southern Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. ... Guadalajara province Guadalajara is a province of central Spain, in the northern part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. ... Guipuscoa province. ... Huelva province Huelva is a province of southern Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. ... Huesca province Huesca is a province of northern Spain, in the northern part of the autonomous community of Aragon. ... JaÃ©n Province may refer to JaÃ©n Province, Spain JaÃ©n Province, Peru This is a disambiguation page â€” a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Categories: Spain geography stubs \| Canary Islands \| Provinces of Spain ... LeÃ³n province LeÃ³n (LliÃ³n in Asturian-leonese language) is a province of northwestern Spain, in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and LeÃ³n. ... Lleida province. ... Categories: Spain geography stubs \| Galicia (Spain) \| Provinces of Spain ... Capital Madrid Official languages Spanish Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 12th 8,030. ... MÃ¡laga province The Province of MÃ¡laga (Spanish Provincia de MÃ¡laga) is located on the southern coast of Spain, in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia. ... Capital Official language(s) Spanish Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 20 kmÂ² Population â€“ Total (2006) â€“ % of Spain â€“ Density Ranked 66,871 3,343. ... Capital Murcia Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 9th 11 313 kmÂ² 2,2% Population â€“ Total (2003) â€“ % of Spain â€“ Density Ranked 10th 1 226 993 2,9% 108,46/kmÂ² Demonym â€“ English â€“ Spanish Murcian murciano/a Statute of Autonomy June 9, 1982 ISO 3166-2 MU Parliamentary representation â€“ Congress seats â€“ Senate... â€œNavarraâ€ redirects here. ... For the city of Ourense see Ourense Map of Ourense Ourense (province), Galicia. ... Categories: Spain geography stubs \| Castile-Leon \| Provinces of Spain ... Categories: Spain geography stubs \| Galicia (Spain) \| Provinces of Spain ... La Rioja is a province and autonomous community of northern Spain. ... Salamanca province. ... Santa Cruz de Tenerife province Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a province of Spain, consisting of the western part of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. ... Segovia province Segovia is a province of central Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Castile and LeÃ³n. ... Categories: Spain geography stubs \| Andalusia \| Provinces of Spain ... Soria province Soria is a province of central Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Castile and LeÃ³n. ... Categories: Spain geography stubs \| Catalonia \| Provinces of Spain ... Teruel province Teruel is a province of central Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Aragon. ... Categories: Spain geography stubs \| Castile-La Mancha \| Provinces of Spain ... Valencia province Valencia (Castilian Spanish: Valencia /balenθja/; Valencian Catalan: València /vałεnsia/) is a province of Spain, in the central part of the Valencian Country. ... Valladolid province Valladolid is a province of western Spain, in the central part of the autonomous community of Castile and LeÃ³n. ... Capital Zamora, Spain Official language(s) Spanish; Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 22nd 10. ... Zaragoza province Zaragoza (also called Saragossa in English) is a province of northern Spain, in the central part of the autonomous community of Aragon. ...

v • d • e Late Roman Provinces
Western Empire (395–476)
Praetorian prefecture of Gaul	Diocese of Gaul: Lugdunensis I \| Lugdunensis II \| Lugdunensis III \| Lugdunensis IV \| Belgica I \| Belgica II \| Germania I \| Germania II \| Alpes Poeninae et Graiae \| Maxima Sequanorum Diocese of Vienne (later Septem Provinciae): Viennensis \| Alpes Maritimae \| Aquitanica I \| Aquitanica II \| Novempopulana \| Narbonensis I \| Narbonensis II Diocese of Spain: Baetica \| Baleares \| Carthaginensis \| Tarraconensis \| Gallaecia \| Lusitania \| Mauretania Tingitana Diocese of Britain: Maxima Caesariensis \| Britannia I \| Britannia II \| Flavia Caesariensis \| Valentia (369)
Praetorian prefecture of Italy	Diocese of Suburbicarian Italy: Campania \| Tuscania et Umbria \|

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