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Balearic Islanders


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  • Variants

    • Baleares
    • Balearicos
    • Balears
    • Gimnesienses
    • Isleños (Balearic Islands, Spain)
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    • found: Work cat.: Los perfiles de Odiseo: antología de la poesía joven en las Islas Baleares = Els perfils de O'disseu: antologia de la poesia jove a les Illes Balears, 2007(poetry anthology from the Balearic Islands)
    • found: Britannica online, Aug. 15, 2016(Balearic Islands, region and province, Spain; Balearic Islands, Spanish Islas Baleares, Catalan Illes Balears, archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea and a comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Spain coextensive with the Spanish provincia (province) of the same name; The eastern and larger group forms the Balearics proper and includes the principal islands of Majorca (Mallorca) and Minorca (Menorca) and the small island of Cabrera. The western group is known as the Pitiusas and includes the islands of Ibiza (Eivissa) and Formentera)
    • found: Demonyms of Spain, via everything2 website, Aug. 15, 2016(Illes Balears - Balear, gimnesiense)
    • found: Los 10 gentilicios más curiosos de España, 2014, via WWW, Aug. 15, 2016(the 10 most curious demonyms of Spain; who would imagine that "gimnesiense" is used for someone born in the Balearic Islands)
    • found: Torre Aparicio, Tomás de la. Gentilicios españoles, 2006, via Google books, Aug. 15, 2016:p. 16 (Baleares: Baleares, Balearicos, Gimnesienses, Isleños)
    • found: BITECA: bibliografia de textos antics catalans, valencians i balears, 2013.
    • found: 99516228: Balears, catalans, valencians, 1999.
    • found: 2004560787: Moll, J. Música de compositors balears, 1999.
    • found: 96139533: Marimon i Riutort, A. Els balears en les guerres de Cuba, Puerto Rico i les Filipines, 1996.
    • found: Les Balears i Amèrica, 1998.
    • found: catalandictionary.org, Aug. 15, 2016(Catalan to English: balear = adj. Balearic; noun 1. (m/f) person (or man or woman or child) from the Balearic Islands 2. Balears (fpl) Balearic Islands)
    • found: Glosbe Catalan-English dictionary, via WWW, Aug. 15, 2016(balear: Balearic (pertaining to the Balearic Islands, the people thereof, or the Catalan dialects; Balearic (a person from the Balearic Islands); Balearic (the dialect of Catalan spoken in the Balearic Islands); balears: plural of balear)
    • found: Span¡shD!ct website, Aug. 15, 2016(balear noun: person from the Balearic Islands; los baleares: the people of the Balearic Islands)
    • found: Minahan, J. One Europe, many nations : a historical dictionary of European national groups, 2000(under Catalans: called Balearic Islanders or Mallorquins, in the Balearic Islands of Spain; the Balearic Islands include the major island of Majorca and the smaller islands of Menorca, Ibiza, Formentera, and Cabrera and eleven islets)
    • found: Hedgecoe, G. Balearic islanders protest against dilution of Catalan language, in The Irish times, Oct. 7, 2013, viewed online Aug. 15, 2016(Although the Balearic Islands are not part of Catalonia, the Catalan language has long been used there)
    • notfound: Dickson, P. Labels for locals, 2006
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  • Change Notes

    • 2016-08-15: new
    • 2016-12-13: revised
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