Catalan
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
[edit]From, or related to Catalonia:
- Catalan language, a Romance language
- Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Çatalan Bridge, Adana, Turkey
- Çatalan Dam, Adana, Turkey
- Catalan Batteries, Gibraltar
People
[edit]- 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
[edit]Mathematical concepts named after mathematician Eugène Catalan:
- Catalan numbers, 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Battle of Catalán (1817) in Uruguay
- Catalan Sheepdog
- Catalan Company, medieval mercenary company
- Catalan vault, architectural design element
- The Catalans, a 1953 novel by Patrick O'Brian
See also
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