Mallorca (AA Island Maps)

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Andreu Manresa (3 July 2015). "La izquierda de Baleares "entierra" el trilingüismo y potencia el catalán"[The left of the Balearic Islands "buries" trilingualism and promotes Catalan]. El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 22 September 2017 . Retrieved 12 September 2017. Entstehung Mallorcas [German]". Archived from the original on 28 May 2012 . Retrieved 13 December 2019. Keenan, Steve (6 July 2009). "Mallorca v Majorca: which is correct?". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 6 June 2010 . Retrieved 7 April 2013. Concha Buika, contemporary flamenco singer. Concha Buika was born on 11 May 1972, in Palma de Mallorca.

Ludwig Salvator loved the island of Mallorca. He became fluent in Catalan, carried out research into the island's flora and fauna, history, and culture to produce his main work, Die Balearen, a comprehensive collection of books about the Balearic Islands, consisting of 7 volumes. It took him 22 years to complete. [38] Ramon Llull, a friar, writer and philosopher, who wrote the first major work of Catalan Literature; Yoeli-Rimmer, Orr (31 October 2017). "Mass tourism in Mallorca: Trouble in paradise". Cafébabel. Archived from the original on 21 April 2020 . Retrieved 20 November 2019.Jørn Utzon, an architect best known for designing the Sydney Opera House, designed and built two houses in Mallorca, Can Lis and Can Feliz. Ein Felsen, der aus dem Meer gewachsen ist" [German], interview with geologist Rosa Mateos in Mallorca Magazin 13/2009, pp. 62-63. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Balearic Islands have been an autonomous region of Spain since 1983. [4] There are two small islands off the coast of Mallorca: Cabrera (southeast of Palma) and Dragonera (west of Palma). The anthem of Mallorca is " La Balanguera". The Balearic Islands were first colonised by humans during the 3rd millennium BC, around 2500–2300 BC from the Iberian Peninsula or southern France, by people associated with the Bell Beaker culture. [8] [9] The arrival of humans resulted in the rapid extinction of the three species of terrestrial mammals native to Mallorca, the dwarf goat-antelope Myotragus balearicus, the giant dormouse Hypnomys morpheus, and the shrew Nesiotites hidalgo, all three of which had been continuously present on Mallorca for over 5 million years. [10] The island's prehistoric settlements are called talaiots or talayots. The people of the islands raised Bronze Age megaliths as part of their Talaiotic culture. [11] A non-exhaustive list of settlements is the following:

Restaurants". Infomallorca. Consell de Mallorca. Archived from the original on 25 October 2023 . Retrieved 15 September 2018. Blasco Esteve, Avelino (2016). "Consejos insulares y diputaciones provinciales". Documentación Administrativa. Madrid: Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública (3). doi: 10.24965/da.v0i3.10371. ISSN 1989-8983. Archived from the original on 20 July 2020 . Retrieved 20 July 2020.Carlos Meneses. "Borges y España — Mallorca en Borges"[Borges and Spain — Mallorca in Borges]. Centro Virtual Cervantes (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2 May 2012 . Retrieved 28 September 2017.