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Sometimes the artistic name consists of the home town appended to the first name (Manolo Sanlúcar, Ramón de Algeciras); but many, perhaps most, such names are more eccentric: Pepe de la Matrona (because his mother was a midwife); Perico del Lunar (because he had a mole); Tomatito (son of a father known as Tomate (tomato) because of his red ...
The etymology of the name has traditionally been derived from the name of the Vandals (who settled in Hispania in the 5th century). A number of proposals since the 1980s have contested this: Vallvé (1986) proposed derivation of the name from the Atlantic. [2] Halm (1989) derives the name from a reconstructed Gothic term *landahlauts. [3]
Graffiti in Seville with text in EPA Andalusian.The text says Êccribe n'andalûh manque çea por molêttâh, "Write in Andalusian even if it is only to bother".. Êttandâ pal andalûh ("Standard for Andalusian", EPA; Estándar para el andaluz in standard Spanish) is a proposed standardized orthographic system for Andalusian Spanish.
The Andalusian dialects of Spanish (Spanish: andaluz, pronounced, locally [andaˈluh, ændæˈlʊ]) are spoken in Andalusia, Ceuta, Melilla, and Gibraltar.They include perhaps the most distinct of the southern variants of peninsular Spanish, differing in many respects from northern varieties in a number of phonological, morphological and lexical features.
The Andalusians (Spanish: andaluces) are the people of Andalusia, an autonomous community in southern Spain. Andalusia's statute of autonomy defines Andalusians as the Spanish citizens who reside in any of the municipalities of Andalusia, as well as those Spaniards who reside abroad and had their last Spanish residence in Andalusia, and their descendants. [7]
Gitanos have a low and little politically committed role, with some particular exceptions; Andalusian nationalism and identity is strongly based on a belief in the oriental basis of Andalusi heritage, which acted as a bridge between occidental-western and oriental-eastern Andalusian culture at a popular level.
Name Occupation Place of birth Date of birth Date of death Abd-ar-Rahman III: Emir and first Caliph of Córdoba: Córdoba: 891: 961 Niceto Alcalá-Zamora: First Prime Minister and first President of the Second Spanish Republic: Priego de Córdoba: 1877: 1949 Al-Mansur aka Almanzor: Muslim general and statesman: Algeciras: 940: 1002 Javier Arenas