Catalan Explained

Catalan may refer to:

Catalonia

From, or related to Catalonia:

Catalan language, a Romance language
Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia

Places

13178 Catalan, asteroid #13178, named "Catalan"
Catalán (crater), a lunar crater named for Miguel Ángel Catalán
Çatalan, İvrindi, a village in Balıkesir province, Turkey
Çatalan, Karaisalı, a village in Adana Province, Turkey
Catalan Bay, Gibraltar
Catalan Sea, more commonly known as the Balearic Sea
Catalan Mediterranean System, the Catalan Mountains

Facilities and structures

Çatalan Bridge, Adana, Turkey
Çatalan Dam, Adana, Turkey
Catalan Batteries, Gibraltar

People

Catalan, Lord of Monaco (1415–1457), Lord of Monaco from 1454 until 1457
Alfredo Catalán (born 1968), Venezuelan politician
Alex Catalán (born 1968), Spanish filmmaker
Arnaut Catalan (1219–1253), troubador
Diego Catalán (1928–2008), Spanish philologist
Emilio Arenales Catalán (1922–1969) Guatemalan politician
Eugène Charles Catalan (1814–1894), French and Belgian mathematician
Miguel A. Catalán (1894–1957), Spanish spectroscopist
Moses Chayyim Catalan (died 1661), Italian rabbi
Sergio Catalán (born 1991) Chilean soccer player

Mathematics

Mathematical concepts named after mathematician Eugène Catalan:

Catalan numbers, a sequence of natural numbers that occur in various counting problems
Catalan solids, a family of polyhedra
Catalan's constant, a number that occurs in estimates in combinatorics
Catalan's conjecture

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

Sports and games

Catalan Opening, in chess
Catalan Open, golf tournament
Catalans Dragons, a rugby league team often known simply as Catalan
XIII Catalan, a rugby league team from Perpignan, France

Other uses

Battle of Catalán (1817) in Uruguay
Catalan Sheepdog
Catalan Company, medieval mercenary company
Catalan vault, architectural design element
The Catalans, a 1953 novel by Patrick O'Brian

See also