What is "catalan"

Usage examples of "catalan".

Duke of Valencia assassinated, then speedily marching in sufficient force to seize the duchy and city for the Catalan Crown, while a fleet set sail from Barcelona to occupy the Valencia-owned Balearic Islands, as well.

For that matter, if you looked only at the small numbers, you would think numbers were very likely to be Fibonacci numbers, Bell numbers, Catalan numbers, Motzkin numbers, and even perfect numbers.

The count de Cifuentas, at the head of the Miquelets and Catalans attached to the house of Austria, secured Tar-ragonia, Tortosa, Lerida, San-Mattheo, Gironne, and other places.

Spanish, a bit Catalan, a bit Basque, a bit Navarrese, and highly anticlerical.

Only, during the respite the absence of his rival afforded him, he reflected, partly on the means of deceiving Mercedes as to the cause of his absence, partly on plans of emigration and abduction, as from time to time he sat sad and motionless on the summit of Cape Pharo, at the spot from whence Marseilles and the Catalans are visible, watching for the apparition of a young and handsome man, who was for him also the messenger of vengeance.

The following day Dantes presented Jacopo with an entirely new vessel, accompanying the gift by a donation of one hundred piastres, that he might provide himself with a suitable crew and other requisites for his outfit, upon condition that he would go at once to Marseilles for the purpose of inquiring after an old man named Louis Dantes, residing in the Allees de Meillan, and also a young woman called Mercedes, an inhabitant of the Catalan village.

Madrid dangled the carrot of freedom and independence to the communities who fought on her side, the Basques and Catalans jumped in with both feet--after they got a signed declaration of their independence.

Unlike his own Panama, Spain was a country divided, split into Galicians, Catalans, Asturians, Navaronnes, Basques, and a dozen others, seventeen separate provinces in all, each with limited independence granted by Spain.

In fact, the Catalan method, properly so called, requires the construction of kilns and crucibles, in which the ore and the coal, placed in alternate layers, are transformed and reduced, But Cyrus Harding intended to economize these constructions, and wished simply to form, with the ore and the coal, a cubic mass, to the center of which he would direct the wind from his bellows.

She wore the picturesque costume of the Catalan fisherwomen, a red and black bodice, and golden pins in her hair.

I have seen Mercedes come into the city she has been accompanied by a tall, strapping, black-eyed Catalan, with a red complexion, brown skin, and fierce air, whom she calls cousin.

Dantes, and without relinquishing Mercedes hand clasped in one of his own, he extended the other to the Catalan with a cordial air.

I will give you a hundred crowns if, the first time you go to Marseilles, you will seek out a young girl named Mercedes, at the Catalans, and give her two lines from me.

Amongst the Catalans, Mercedes wished for a thousand things, but still she never really wanted any.

The various groups of Catalan autonomists who had approached the government had made this plain, though it was obvious before: this was not the first time England had been concerned with Catalonia nor with dividing her potential enemies.