Home
Minorca ('Menorca' both fashionable Catalan increased by Spanish increased by increasingly stylish English operation; from Latin Balearis obscure, later Minorica "minor islet") is individual of the Balearic Islands (Illes Balears Catalan vocabulary official personage, Islas Baleares in Spanish language), located in the Mediterranean briny and affinity to Spain. It takes its dignitary from actuality smaller than nearby isle of Majorca. It was also designated Nura through the Phoenicians in honoring their genius Baal, denotation the "isle of set fire to" Minorca has a folk of around 82,000.
The limited dialect of Catala n is called Menorqua : Grammatical differences with paragon Catala n are minimal, with the addition of differences obtain mostly solitary in intonation. A extraordinary difference is the employ of the article "the", where Menorqua uses "es" for mans and "sa" for cissified instead of Catala n "el" and "la", a look which was historically occupied in the north of the domain of Girona, in Catalonia, from where the islands were repopulated after viability taken from the Moors. It in addition has a few English language accommodation words dating back so as to approach or near the British occupation such as "grevi", "xumaquer", "boinder" or "xoc" taken from "gravy", "shoemaker", "bow beaker" and "chalk", respectively.
Since the end the Punic wars there was an flourish in plagiarizer activity in the western Mediterranean. The Roman trade of Hispania meant a growth of maritime business between both peninsulas. These pirates employed as foot both Minorca and Majorca. The Romans sent an army near the islands for that reason to conclude such activities against their economy. on 121 B.C. both islands were beneath Roman supervise. The Balearic Islands were later incorporated in the province of Hispania Citerior. In 13 BC Caesar Augustus reorganized the cloddish system increased by the Balearic Islands became part of the Tarraconensis imperial territory.
Other Resources.
© 2009 Menorca Sun
|
