Catalan

Look up Catalan, Catalans, catalan, catalans, or catalán in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Catalan may refer to something of, from, or related to Catalonia.

• Catalan cuisine, a Mediterranean cuisine from Catalonia
• Catalan language, a Romance language
  • Països Catalans, territories where Catalan is spoken
• Catalan people, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Catalonia
• Catalan Country Style, a linedance style originating from Catalonia

Catalan may also refer to:

Wine

• Catalan (grape), another name for the wine grape Mourvèdre
• Catalan wine, an alternative name used in France for wine made from the Carignan grape
  • Carignan, a wine grape that is also known as Catalan

Places

• Catalán (crater), a lunar crater named for Miguel Ángel Catalán
• Çatalan, Karaisalı, a village in Adana Province, Turkey
• Catalan Bay Cave, a cave in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar
• Catalan Pre-Coastal Range, a system of mountain ranges running parallel to the Mediterranean Sea coast in Catalonia

People

• Catalan, Lord of Monaco (1415–1457), Lord of Monaco from 1454 until 1457
• Eugène Charles Catalan (1814–1894), French and Belgian mathematician
• Miguel A. Catalán (1894–1957), Spanish spectroscopist
• Moses Chayyim Catalan (died 1661), Italian rabbi

Companies and organizations

• Catalan Communications, a publisher of graphic novels during the 1980s
• Catalan Company (or Catalan Grand Company), a mercenary free company in 14th century Europe
• Catalan Ornithological Institute, a not for profit association for the study of birds in Catalonia

Mathematics

• Catalan number, a sequence of natural numbers that occur in various counting problems in combinatorial mathematics
• Catalan pseudoprime, a class of pseudoprime numbers
• Catalan solid, a dual polyhedron to an Archimedean solid
• Catalan's conjecture, a theorem conjectured in 1844 and proven in 2002
• Catalan's constant, mathematical constant

Politics

• Catalan nationalism, nationalism which asserts that Catalans are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of Catalans
• Catalan Republic, an unrecognized independent state proclaimed four times
• Catalan separatism, a political movement which supports the independence of Catalonia from Spain and France
• Catalan State-Proletarian Party, a communist political party in Catalonia, Spain

Other uses

• Catalans Dragons, a rugby league football club
• Catalan Opening, a chess opening
• The Catalans, a 1953 novel by Patrick O'Brian

See also

• Interpunct, an orthographic symbol used in written Catalan
• All pages beginning with "Catalan"