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64 relations: Arms industry, Astures, Augustus, Autonomous communities of Spain, Bembibre, Bercian dialect, Bierzo (DO), Bierzo Edict, Camino de Santiago, Cantabrian Wars, Castile and León, Castilians, Central European Summer Time, Central European Time, Coal, Coal mining, Comarca, Comarcas of Spain, Electricity generation, Endesa, Fossil fuel power station, Galicia (Spain), Galician language, Galician Nationalist Bloc, Galicians, Gallaeci, Hispano-Celtic languages, Hydroelectricity, Kingdom of León, Las Médulas, León (historical region), Leonese dialect, Leonese people, List of municipalities of Spain, List of postal codes in Spain, Mining, Montes Aquilanos, People's Party (Spain), Phylloxera, Poitou, Ponferrada, Province of León, Province of Zamora, Provinces of Spain, Richard A. Fletcher, Roman Empire, Royal Galician Academy, Santiago de Compostela, Sil (river), Slate, ..., Socialists' Party of Galicia, Spain, Spanish language, Telephone numbers in Spain, Tungsten, UNESCO, University of León, Valdeorras, Villafranca del Bierzo, Vitis, Wind power, World Heritage site, 1822 territorial division of Spain, 1833 territorial division of Spain. Expand index (14 more) »
Arms industry
The arms industry, also known as the defense industry or the arms trade, is a global industry responsible for the manufacturing and sales of weapons and military technology.
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Astures
The Astures or Asturs, also named Astyrs, were the Hispano-Celtic inhabitants of the northwest area of Hispania that now comprises almost the entire modern autonomous community of Principality of Asturias, the modern province of León, and the northern part of the modern province of Zamora (all in Spain), and east of Trás os Montes in Portugal.
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Augustus
Augustus (Augustus; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August 14 AD) was a Roman statesman and military leader who was the first Emperor of the Roman Empire, controlling Imperial Rome from 27 BC until his death in AD 14.
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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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Bembibre
Bembibre is a municipality and a city located in the region of El Bierzo, province of León, Castile and León, Spain.
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Bercian dialect
Bercian is the generic name of the linguistic varieties spoken in El Bierzo region, in the province of León, Spain.
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Bierzo (DO)
Bierzo is a Spanish Denominación de Origen (DO) for wines located in the northwest of the province of León (Castile and León, Spain) and covers about 3,000 km².
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Bierzo Edict
The Bierzo Edict, also referred to as the Edict of Augustus from El Bierzo and the Bembibre Bronze is a controversial document dated to 15 BCE found in El Bierzo in Spain in 1000.
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Camino de Santiago
The Camino de Santiago (Peregrinatio Compostellana, "Pilgrimage of Compostela"; O Camiño de Santiago), known in English as the Way of Saint James among other names, is a network of pilgrims' ways serving pilgrimage to the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition has it that the remains of the saint are buried.
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Cantabrian Wars
The Cantabrian Wars (29–19 BC) (Bellum Cantabricum), sometimes also referred to as the Cantabrian and Asturian Wars (Bellum Cantabricum et Asturicum), were the final stage of the two-century long Roman conquest of Hispania, in what today are the provinces of Cantabria, Asturias and León, in northwestern Spain.
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Castile and León
Castile and León (Castilla y León; Leonese: Castiella y Llión; Castela e León) is an autonomous community in north-western Spain.
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Castilians
Castilians (Spanish: castellanos) are certain inhabitants in regions of central Spain including at least the eastern part of Castile and León, Castile-La Mancha excluding Albacete, and the Community of Madrid, who are the source of the Spanish language (Castilian) among other aspects of cultural identity.
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Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST), sometime referred also as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (UTC+1) during the other part of the year.
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Central European Time
Central European Time (CET), used in most parts of Europe and a few North African countries, is a standard time which is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
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Coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.
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Comarca
A comarca (or, pl. comarcas; or, pl. comarques) is a traditional region or local administrative division found in Portugal, Spain and some of their former colonies: Panama, Nicaragua, and Brazil.
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Comarcas of Spain
In Spain traditionally and historically, some autonomous communities are also divided into comarcas (sing. comarca).
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Electricity generation
Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy.
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Endesa
Endesa, S.A. (originally an initialism for Empresa Nacional de Electricidad, S.A.) is the largest electric utility company in Spain.
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Fossil fuel power station
A fossil fuel power station is a power station which burns a fossil fuel such as coal, natural gas, or petroleum to produce electricity.
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Galicia (Spain)
Galicia (Galician: Galicia, Galiza; Galicia; Galiza) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law.
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Galician language
Galician (galego) is an Indo-European language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch.
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Galician Nationalist Bloc
The Galician Nationalist Bloc (Bloque Nacionalista Galego, BNG) is a political coalition of left-wing Galician nationalist parties.
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Galicians
Galicians (galegos, gallegos) are a national, cultural and ethnic group whose historic homeland is Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Gallaeci
The Gallaeci or Callaeci were a large Celtic tribal federation who inhabited Gallaecia, the north-western corner of Iberia, a region roughly corresponding to what is now northern Portugal, Galicia, western Asturias and western Castile and León in Spain, before and during the Roman period.
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Hispano-Celtic languages
Hispano-Celtic is a hypernym to include all the varieties of Celtic spoken in the Iberian Peninsula before the arrival of the Romans (in c. 218 BC, during the Second Punic War).
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Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.
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Kingdom of León
The Kingdom of León (Astur-Leonese: Reinu de Llïón, Reino de León, Reino de León, Reino de Leão, Regnum Legionense) was an independent kingdom situated in the northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Las Médulas
Las Médulas is a historic gold-mining site near the town of Ponferrada in the comarca of El Bierzo (province of León, Castile and León, Spain).
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León (historical region)
The region of León or Leonese region (Leonese: rexón de Llïón, región de León and rexón de Llión) is a historic territory defined by the 1833 Spanish administrative organisation.
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Leonese dialect
Leonese is a set of vernacular Romance dialects spoken in the northern and western portions of the historical region of León in Spain (the modern provinces of León, Zamora, and Salamanca) and a few adjoining areas in Portugal.
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Leonese people
The Leonese (Leonese: Llïoneses; Spanish: Leoneses) are the native inhabitants of León whose homeland is the former Kingdom of León.
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List of municipalities of Spain
This is a list of lists of the municipalities of Spain.
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List of postal codes in Spain
Postal codes were introduced and standardized in Spain in 1985, when Correos (the national postal service of Spain) introduced automated mail sorting.
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Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.
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Montes Aquilanos
Montes Aquilanos, also known as Montes de El Bierzo and Alpes Bergidenses, is a mountain range within Montes de León, located to the south-southeast of the region of El Bierzo, pertaining to the Province of León in the autonomous region of Castile and León, Spain.
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People's Party (Spain)
The People's Party (Partido Popular; known mostly by its acronym, PP) is a conservative and Christian democratic political party in Spain.
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Phylloxera
Grape phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae (Fitch 1855); family Phylloxeridae, within the order Hemiptera, bugs); originally described in France as Phylloxera vastatrix; equated to the previously described Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, Phylloxera vitifoliae; commonly just called phylloxera (from φύλλον, leaf, and ξηρός, dry) is a pest of commercial grapevines worldwide, originally native to eastern North America.
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Poitou
Poitou, in Poitevin: Poetou, was a province of west-central France whose capital city was Poitiers.
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Ponferrada
Ponferrada (from the Latin Pons Ferrata, Iron Bridge) is the capital city of El Bierzo in the Province of León, Spain.
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Province of León
León is a province of northwestern Spain, in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.
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Province of Zamora
Zamora is a province of western Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.
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Provinces of Spain
Spain and its autonomous communities are divided into fifty provinces (provincias,; sing. provincia).
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Richard A. Fletcher
Richard Alexander Fletcher (born York 28 March 1944: died Nunnington 28 February 2005) was a historian who specialized in the medieval period.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.
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Royal Galician Academy
The Royal Galician Academy (Real Academia Galega, RAG) is an institution dedicated to the study of Galician culture and especially the Galician language; it promulgates norms of grammar, spelling, and vocabulary and works to promote the language.
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Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain.
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Sil (river)
The Sil is a river in León (Castile and León) and Galicia, Spain, a tributary of the Miño.
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Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.
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Socialists' Party of Galicia
The Socialists' Party of Galicia (Partido dos Socialistas de Galicia, PSdeG–PSOE) is a centre-left political party in Galicia, 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 language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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Telephone numbers in Spain
The Spanish telephone numbering plan is the allocation of telephone numbers in Spain.
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Tungsten
Tungsten, or wolfram, is a chemical element with symbol W (referring to wolfram) and atomic number 74.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.
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University of León
The University of León is a Spanish public university with campus in León and Ponferrada.
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Valdeorras
Valdeorras is a comarca in the Galician Province of Ourense.
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Villafranca del Bierzo
Castle of Villafranca. Vilafranca del Bierzo (Vilafranca do Bierzo) is a village and municipality located in the comarca of El Bierzo, in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain.
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Vitis
Vitis (grapevines) is a genus of 79 accepted species of vining plants in the flowering plant family Vitaceae.
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Wind power
Wind power is the use of air flow through wind turbines to mechanically power generators for electricity.
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World Heritage site
A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.
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1822 territorial division of Spain
The 1822 territorial division of Spain was a rearrangement of the territory of Spain into various provinces, enacted briefly during the Trienio Liberal of 1820–1823.
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1833 territorial division of Spain
The 1833 territorial division of Spain divided Spain into provinces, classified into "historic regions" (regiones históricas).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Bierzo
