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Vic is the capital of the comarca of Osona, in the Barcelona Province, Catalonia, Spain. [1]

95 relations: Abbot Oliba, Ancient Diocese of Narbonne, Anthony Mary Claret, Antoni Gaudí, Atto (bishop of Vic), Autonomous communities of Spain, Barcelona, Basalt, Besalú, Borrell, Count of Osona, Calldetenes, Catalan independence movement, Catalonia, Cinidius of Vic, Claretians, Comarques of Catalonia, Congregations of the Heart of Mary, Convergence and Union, Council of Trent, Count of Barcelona, Country, Decius, Diocese, Dominican Order, Episcopal see, Euro, Folgueroles, Fuet, Generalitat de Catalunya, Girona, Gurb, Ignatius of Loyola, Internet Archive, Isabella II of Spain, Jacint Verdaguer, Jaime Balmes, James I of Aragon, James II of Aragon, Jordi (bishop of Vic), Joseph Sadoc Alemany, Köppen climate classification, Kingdom of Valencia, L'Atlàntida, Lleida, Louis the Pious, Malla, Barcelona, March (territorial entity), Mayor, Michael de Sanctis, Municipalities of Catalonia, ..., Muntanyola, North America, Oceanic climate, OK Liga, Osona, Patron saint, Peace and Truce of God, Pedro Mercado, Philip III of Spain, Philip V of Spain, Plain of Vic, Pope Benedict XIV, Pope Sylvester II, Pork, Province of Barcelona, Provinces of Spain, Quercus pubescens, Ripoll, Roller hockey, Roller hockey (quad), Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tarragona, Roman Catholic Diocese of Vic, Sant Bartomeu del Grau, Santa Eugènia de Berga, Santa Eulàlia de Riuprimer, Santa Maria de Ripoll, Society of Jesus, Spain, Spanish Christmas Lottery, Statistical Institute of Catalonia, Street light, Suffragan bishop, Tarragona, Terrassa, The Economist, Third Council of Toledo, Toulouges, Trinitarian Order, University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, Visigoths, War of the Spanish Succession, Wilfred the Hairy, Wrought iron, 1992 Summer Olympics. Expand index (45 more) »

Abbot Oliba

Oliba (c. 971–1046) was the count of Berga and Ripoll (998–1002), and later abbot of the monasteries of Santa Maria de Ripoll and Sant Miquel de Cuixà (1008–1046) and the bishop of Vic (1018–1046).

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Ancient Diocese of Narbonne

The former Catholic diocese of Narbonne existed from early Christian times until the French Revolution.

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Anthony Mary Claret

Saint Anthony Mary Claret, C.M.F. (Antoni Maria Claret i Clarà; Antonio María Claret y Clarà; December 23, 1807 – October 24, 1870) was a Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop and missionary, and was confessor of Isabella II of Spain.

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Antoni Gaudí

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Spanish architect from Catalonia.

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Atto (bishop of Vic)

Atto (Ató; died 971) was the bishop of Vic from 957 until his death.

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Autonomous communities of Spain

In Spain, an autonomous community (comunidad autónoma, autonomia erkidegoa, comunitat autònoma, comunidade autónoma, comunautat autonòma) is a first-level political and administrative division, created in accordance with the Spanish constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing limited autonomy of the nationalities and regions that make up Spain.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city in Spain.

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Basalt

Basalt is a common extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of a planet or moon.

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Besalú

Besalú is a town in the comarca of Garrotxa, in Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

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Borrell, Count of Osona

Borrell I was the first count of Cerdanya, Urgell, and Osona from between 797 and 799 to his death in 820.

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Calldetenes

Calldetenes is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Osona in Catalonia, Spain.

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Catalan independence movement

The Catalan independence movement (independentisme català; Spanish: independentismo catalán) is a political movement historically derived from Catalan nationalism, which seeks independence of Catalonia from Spain.

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Catalonia

Catalonia (Catalunya, Catalonha, Cataluña) is an autonomous community in Spain on the northeastern extremity of the Iberian Peninsula, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.

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Cinidius of Vic

Cinidius was the first bishop of Vic who is mentioned by name in records that have come down to the present.

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Claretians

The Claretians, a community of Roman Catholic priests and brothers, were founded by Anthony Mary Claret in 1849.

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Comarques of Catalonia

This is a list of the 42 comarques (singular comarca) into which Catalonia is divided.

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Congregations of the Heart of Mary

Congregation of the Heart of Mary is a name that applies to various Roman Catholic religious Congregations, most of them for women.

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Convergence and Union

Convergence and Union (Convergència i Unió, CiU) was a Catalan nationalist electoral alliance in Catalonia, Spain.

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Council of Trent

The Council of Trent (Concilium Tridentinum), held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent (or Trento, in northern Italy), was an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.

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Count of Barcelona

The Count of Barcelona (Comte de Barcelona, Conde de Barcelona) was the ruler of Catalonia for much of Catalan history, from the 9th century until the 15th century.

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Country

A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography.

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Decius

Trajan Decius (Caesar Gaius Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius Augustus; c. 201June 251) was Roman Emperor from 249 to 251.

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Diocese

The word diocese is derived from the Greek term διοίκησις meaning "administration".

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Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers (Ordo Praedicatorum, postnominal abbreviation OP), also known as the Dominican Order, is a mendicant Catholic religious order founded by the Spanish priest Dominic of Caleruega in France, approved by Pope Honorius III via the Papal bull Religiosam vitam on 22 December 1216.

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Episcopal see

The seat or cathedra of the Bishop of Rome in the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano An episcopal see is, in the usual meaning of the phrase, the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

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Euro

The euro (sign: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of the European Union.

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Folgueroles

Folgueroles is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Osona in Catalonia, Spain.

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Fuet

Fuet is a Catalan thin, dry cured, sausage of pork meat in a pork gut.

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Generalitat de Catalunya

The Government of Catalonia or the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan;,; Generalidad de Cataluña) is the institution under which the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia is politically organised.

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Girona

Girona (Gerona; Gérone) is a city in Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the rivers Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell and has an official population of 99,013 as of January 2017.

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Gurb

Gurb is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Osona in Catalonia, Spain.

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Ignatius of Loyola

Saint Ignatius of Loyola (Ignazio Loiolakoa, Ignacio de Loyola; – 31 July 1556) was a Spanish Basque priest and theologian, who founded the religious order called the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and became its first Superior General.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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Isabella II of Spain

Isabella II (Isabel; 10 October 1830 – 9 April 1904) was Queen of Spain from 1833 until 1868.

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Jacint Verdaguer

Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló (May 17, 1845 – June 10, 1902) was a catalan writer, regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a cultural revival movement of the late Romantic era.

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Jaime Balmes

Father Jaime Luciano Balmes y Urpiá (Jaume Llucià Antoni Balmes i Urpià; 28 August 18109 July 1848) was a Spanish Catholic priest known for his political and philosophical writing.

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James I of Aragon

James I the Conqueror (Jaume el Conqueridor, Chaime lo Conqueridor, Jacme lo Conquistaire, Jaime el Conquistador; 2 February 1208 – 27 July 1276) was King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona, and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276; King of Majorca from 1231 to 1276; and Valencia from 1238 to 1276.

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James II of Aragon

James II (10 August 1267 – 2 or 5 November 1327), called the Just, was the King of Aragon and Valencia and Count of Barcelona from 1291 to 1327.

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Jordi (bishop of Vic)

Jordi (Georgius, George; died 947) was the bishop of Vic (Ausona) from 914 until his death.

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Joseph Sadoc Alemany

Joseph Sadoc Alemany y Conill, O.P. (July 3, 1814 – April 14, 1888) was a Catalan American Roman Catholic archbishop and missionary.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kingdom of Valencia

The Kingdom of Valencia (Regne de València,; Reino de Valencia; Regnum Valentiae), located in the eastern shore of the Iberian Peninsula, was one of the component realms of the Crown of Aragon.

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L'Atlàntida

L'Atlàntida is an 1877 poem in Catalan by Jacint Verdaguer.

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Lleida

Lleida (Lérida) is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain.

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Louis the Pious

Louis the Pious (778 – 20 June 840), also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was the King of the Franks and co-Emperor (as Louis I) with his father, Charlemagne, from 813.

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Malla, Barcelona

Malla is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Osona in Catalonia, Spain.

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March (territorial entity)

A march or mark was, in broad terms, a medieval European term for any kind of borderland, as opposed to a notional "heartland".

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Michael de Sanctis

Saint Michael de Sanctis (Miquel dels Sants) (29 September 1591 – 10 April 1625), sometimes called Michael of the Saints, was a Discalced Trinitarian born in Vic, a city of Catalonia, Spain.

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Municipalities of Catalonia

Catalonia is (as of 2018) divided into 947 municipalities.

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Muntanyola

Muntanyola is a municipality in the comarca of Osona, Catalonia, northern Spain.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.

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OK Liga

The OK Liga is the Spanish rink hockey league.

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Osona

Osona is a ''comarca'' situated in central Catalonia, Spain.

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Patron saint

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, or particular branches of Islam, is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family or person.

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Peace and Truce of God

The Peace and Truce of God (Pax et treuga Dei; Gottesfrieden; Paix de Dieu; Pau i Treva de Déu) was a movement in the Middle Ages led by the Catholic Church.

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Pedro Mercado

Pedro Mercado was a Mexican fencer.

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Philip III of Spain

Philip III (Felipe; 14 April 1578 – 31 March 1621) was King of Spain.

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Philip V of Spain

Philip V (Felipe V, Philippe, Filippo; 19 December 1683 – 9 July 1746) was King of Spain from 1 November 1700 to his abdication in favour of his son Louis on 15 January 1724, and from his reascendancy of the throne upon his son's death on 6 September 1724 to his own death on 9 July 1746.

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Plain of Vic

The Plain of Vic (Catalan Plana de Vic) is a 30 km long depression located at the eastern end of the Catalan Central Depression in the Osona comarca.

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Pope Benedict XIV

Pope Benedict XIV (Benedictus XIV; 31 March 1675 – 3 May 1758), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, served as the Pope of the Catholic Church from 17 August 1740 to his death in 1758.

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Pope Sylvester II

Pope Sylvester II or Silvester II (– 12 May 1003) was Pope from 2 April 999 to his death in 1003.

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Pork

Pork is the culinary name for meat from a domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

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Province of Barcelona

Barcelona is a province of eastern Spain, in the center of the autonomous community of Catalonia.

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Provinces of Spain

Spain and its autonomous communities are divided into fifty provinces (provincias,; sing. provincia).

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Quercus pubescens

Quercus pubescens, the downy oak or pubescent oak, is a species of white oak (genus Quercus sect. Quercus) native to southern Europe and southwest Asia, from northern Spain (Pyrenees) east to the Crimea and the Caucasus.

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Ripoll

Ripoll is the capital of the comarca of Ripollès, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

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Roller hockey

Roller hockey is a form of hockey played on a dry surface using wheeled skates.

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Roller hockey (quad)

Roller hockey (in British English), rink hockey (in American English) or quad hockey is a team sport that enjoys significant popularity in a number of Latin countries.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco (Latin: Archdioecesis Sancti Francisci; Spanish: Archidiócesis de San Francisco) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tarragona

The Archdiocese of Tarragona (Latin, Tarraconensis) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory located in north-eastern Spain, in the province of Tarragona, part of the autonomous community of Catalonia.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Vic

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vic (diocoesis Vicen(sis)) is a diocese with its seat in the city of Vic in the ecclesiastical province of Tarragona in Spain.

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Sant Bartomeu del Grau

Sant Bartomeu del Grau is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Osona in Catalonia, Spain.

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Santa Eugènia de Berga

Santa Eugènia de Berga is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Osona in Catalonia, Spain.

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Santa Eulàlia de Riuprimer

Santa Eulàlia de Riuprimer is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Osona in Catalonia, Spain.

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Santa Maria de Ripoll

The Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll is a Benedictine monastery, built in the Romanesque style, located in the town of Ripoll in Catalonia, Spain.

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Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Spanish Christmas Lottery

The Spanish Christmas Lottery (officially Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad or simply Lotería de Navidad) is a national lottery.

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Statistical Institute of Catalonia

The Statistical Institute of Catalonia (in Catalan: Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, usually referred to by its acronym IDESCAT) is the official body responsible for collecting and publishing statistics in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.

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Street light

A street light, light pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path.

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Suffragan bishop

A suffragan bishop is a bishop subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop.

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Tarragona

Tarragona (Phoenician: Tarqon; Tarraco) is a port city located in northeast Spain on the Costa Daurada by the Mediterranean Sea.

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Terrassa

Terrassa (Tarrasa) is a city in the east central region of Catalonia, in the province of Barcelona, comarca of Vallès Occidental, of which it is the cocapital along with Sabadell.

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The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.

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Third Council of Toledo

The Third Council of Toledo (589) marks the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church, and known for codifying the filioque clause into Western Christianity.

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Toulouges

Toulouges (Toluges) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

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Trinitarian Order

The Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives (Ordo Sanctissimae Trinitatis et captivorum), often shortened to The Order of the Most Holy Trinity (Ordo Sanctissimae Trinitatis), or Trinitarians, is a Catholic religious order that was founded in the area of Cerfroid, some 80 km northeast of Paris, at the end of the twelfth century.

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University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia

The University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), is a Catalan university with premises in Vic, Manresa and Granollers.

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Visigoths

The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi; Visigoti) were the western branches of the nomadic tribes of Germanic peoples referred to collectively as the Goths.

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War of the Spanish Succession

The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was a European conflict of the early 18th century, triggered by the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700.

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Wilfred the Hairy

Wilfred or Wifred, called the Hairy (in Catalan: Guifré el Pilós), was Count of Urgell (from 870), Cerdanya (from 870), Barcelona (from 878), Girona (from 878, as Wilfred II), Besalú (from 878) and Ausona (from 886).

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Wrought iron

puddled iron, a form of wrought iron Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon (less than 0.08%) content in contrast to cast iron (2.1% to 4%).

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1992 Summer Olympics

The 1992 Summer Olympic Games (Spanish: Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992; Catalan: Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain in 1992.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic

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