The Majorcan cartographic school or the ' Catalan school ' refers to a collection of cartographers, cosmographers and navigational instrument-makers that flourished in Majorca and partly in mainland Catalonia in the 13th, 14th and 15th Centuries.

Category: Majorcan cartographers

Detail of Catalan Atlas: first compass rose depicted on a map ( Majorcan cartographic school ).

Abraham Cresques was a 14th-century Jewish cartographer of the Majorcan cartographic school from Palma ; Cresques is credited with the authorship of the famous Catalan Atlas.

Besides Catalonia, the main Catalan-speaking regions have their own nationalist parties and coalitions thereof which support, at some degree, the demands for the building of a national personality for the Catalan Countries: Valencian Nationalist Bloc ( BNV ) in the Valencian Community, Bloc Nacional i d ' Esquerres, PSM and Majorcan Union ( UM ) in the Balearic Islands.

The chemical principle that makes sobrassada is the dehydration of meat under certain weather conditions ( high humidity and mild cold ) which are typical of the late Majorcan autumn.

Blessed Junípero Serra (; ), known as Fra Juníper Serra in Catalan, his mother tongue, () ( November 24, 1713 – August 28, 1784 ) was a Majorcan Franciscan friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California of the Las Californias Province in New Spain — present day California, United States.

Junípero Serra was a Majorcan Franciscan who founded the first the Alta California Spanish missions.

During World War II, Nazi Germany was known to have pressured Majorcan religious authorities into surrendering the Xuetes, targeted because of their Jewish ancestry.

' Mestre Jacome ', was a Majorcan cartographer induced by Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator to move to Portugal in the 1420s to train Portuguese map-makers in Majorcan-style cartography.

That year, along with a group of Majorcan intellectuals and Jorge Luis Borges ( who was briefly living in Majorca with his parents and sister ), he signed the Ultraist Manifesto, using the name Fortunio Bonanova.

Preoccupied with diverse problems within the realm, it was not until 1279 when the Majorcan monarch reconciled to have his states recognized as subordinate to the king of Aragon.

The situation was difficult, since James II of Aragon didn't renounce his claim of reclamation of the Majorcan throne.

A third Catalan treatise on the language of the troubadours and composing lyric poetry, the Mirall de trobar (" Mirror of Composition "), was written by a Majorcan, Berenguer d ' Anoia.

The Majorcan Union (; ) was a regional liberal party on the island of Majorca, Spain.

Father Juan Crespí ( March 1, 1721 – January 1, 1782 ) was a Majorcan missionary and explorer of Las Californias.

Majorcan soldiers were valued within the Roman legions for their skill with the sling.

In the Philippines, a Spanish colony for over 300 years ; the Majorcan ensaïmada ( commonly spelled ensaymada in Tagalog and Cebuano ) has evolved over the centuries and is perhaps one the most common delicacies in that country, the ensaymada is a brioche made with butter instead of lard, and topped with grated cheese ( usually aged Edam, known locally as keso de bola ) and sugar.

It has long been believed that Jehuda Cresques is the same person as ' Mestre Jacome ', a Majorcan cartographer induced by the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator to move to Portugal in the 1420s to train Portuguese map-makers in Majorcan-style cartography.

The 17th century is characterised by the division of the city in two sides or gangs, named Canamunts and Canavalls ( from Majorcan Catalan " the ones from the upper / lower side "), with severe social and economical repercussions.

Those who speak it refer to their variant by the name local to their individual island: mallorquí ( Majorcan ), eivissenc ( Ibizan ), and menorquí ( Minorcan ).

Sóller is linked by the historic railway, the Ferrocarril de Sóller, and by a highway with a toll tunnel, to the Majorcan capital of Palma.

In 1325, the regency council secured the renunciation by the Aragonian king of any claim on the rights of succession of the Majorcan throne after the repayment of a great debt incurred by Sancho I during an invasion by Sardinia.

The earliest reading we have of this portion of the map is by a Majorcan named Pasqual in 1789 ( before the ink accident ) who jotted the surname down as " Guullen ".

In January 2005, she became involved in controversy after she invited Labour MSP Jack McConnell, then Scotland's First Minister, and his family to stay at her Majorcan holiday home over the New Year period.

* Ramon Llull, Majorcan missionary ( d. 1316 )

* July 5 – Battle of Manolada between the Burgundian and Majorcan claimants of the Principality of Achaea.

* www. cresquesproject. net -- Translation in English of the works of Riera i Sans and Gabriel Llompart on the Jewish Majorcan mapmakers of the Late Middle Ages.

As a fortification, it suffered and successfully resisted two sieges during the Middle Ages, the first of them in 1343, during Peter IV of Aragon's campaign to reincorporate the Majorcan territories to the Crown of Aragon, and then again in 1391 during an anti-semitic peasant revolt.

The castle has only fallen once into enemy hands in its history, in 1521 after an assault during the Majorcan seconds Revolt of the Brotherhoods.

He currently lives in the Majorcan town of Sóller.

This happened in Catalonia in 1978, in the Valencian Community in 1986, with a part of the Basque network in 1979, and with Majorcan Railways in 1994.

* SFM ( Catalan: Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca, " Majorcan Railway Servicies ") operates the metre gauge railway network on the Spanish island of Majorca.

Stylistically, schlager continues to influence German " party pop ": music most often heard in après-ski bars and Majorcan mass discos.

** The Majorcan system has eight stressed vowels, reduced to four in unstressed position.

** The vowel is central in Ibizan ( as most Catalan dialects ), while it is front ( also represented as ) in Majorcan and Minorcan.

In 1524, a conference of experts ( cartographers, cosmographers, pilots, etc.

He was attracted to the knowledge of the navigators, cosmographers and explorers, acquiring a scientific reputation, and supposedly meeting with Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan and other celebrities then at the court of King John II of Portugal.

The blacklisting of some Protestant scholars even when writing on subjects a modern reader would consider outside the realm of dogma meant that, unless they obtained a dispensation, obedient Catholic thinkers were denied access to the botanist Conrad Gesner's Historiae animalium or the botanical works of Otto Brunfels, those of the medical scholar Janus Cornarius, to Christoph Hegendorff or Johann Oldendorp on the theory of law, Protestant geographers and cosmographers like Jacob Ziegler or Sebastian Münster, as well as anything by Protestant theologians like Martin Luther, John Calvin or Philipp Melancthon.

In the 1530s and 1540s, the principal mapmakers ( known as " cosmographers ") in the Casa de Contratación working on the Padrón Real included Alonso de Santa Cruz, Sebastian Cabot, and Pedro de Medina.

Over centuries cartographers have developed the art of placing names on even the densest of maps.

Therefore, text placement is time-consuming and labor-intensive, so cartographers and GIS users have developed automatic label placement to ease this process.

Over centuries, cartographers have developed the art of mapmaking and label placement.

Fortunately he could call on cartographers and engravers who had developed their skills through long experience with men like Adolf Stieler, Stülpnagel, Heinrich Berghaus, Emil von Sydow, etc., as well as new cartographers like Carl Vogel and Hermann Berghaus.

The concept of animated maps began in the 1930s, but did not become more developed by cartographers until the 1950s ( Slocum et al.