The addition of alcohol stops the fermentation and, as a consequence Mistelle is sweeter than fully fermented grape juice in which the sugars turn to alcohol.

The Aegean Sea (;, Aigaio Pelagos ; or historically ) is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i. e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey.

Athens (;, Athína ; ; Katharevousa: Ἀθῆναι, Athinai ; Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athēnai ) is the capital and largest city of Greece.

Ahab (; ; ) was king of Israel and the son and successor of Omri according to the Hebrew Bible.

An acropolis (; akros, akron, edge, extremity + polis, city ; plural: acropoleis or acropolises ) is a settlement, especially a citadel, built upon an area of elevated ground — frequently a hill with precipitous sides, chosen for purposes of defense.

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; Ancient Greek: ; modern Greek:, " very steadfast ") was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes.

Aga Khan I (; or, less commonly but more correctly (; ), was the title accorded to Hasan Ali Shah (; ; 1804 in Kohak, Iran – 1881 in Bombay, India ), the governor of Kirman, 46th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims, and prominent Muslim leader in Iran and later in the Indian Subcontinent.

Anaxarchus (; ; c. 380-c. 320 BC ) was a Greek philosopher of the school of Democritus.

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (; ; born July 30, 1947 ) is an Austrian and American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, and politician.

Alexander Grothendieck (; ; born 28 March 1928 ) is a mathematician and the central figure behind the creation of the modern theory of algebraic geometry.

Arcadius (; ; 377 / 378 – 1 May 408 ) was the Byzantine Emperor from 395 until his death in 408.

Ajaccio (;, ; ) is a commune on the island of Corsica in France.

Amr Abdul-Basset Abdul-Azeez Diab (; born 11 October 1961 ) is an Egyptian singer and composer of geel music ; he is the contemporary face of Egyptian el-geel pop music, according to World Music.

Byzantium (;, Byzántion ; Latin: ) was an ancient Greek city, founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 657 BC and named after their king Byzas ( Greek: Βύζας, Býzas, genitive Βύζαντος, Býzantos ).

Brandenburg (;, Lower Sorbian: Bramborska ; Upper Sorbian: Braniborska ) is a city in one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany.

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (; ; born 28 September 1934 ) is a former French fashion model, actress, singer and animal rights activist.

The Book of Ruth (; Sephardic, Israeli Hebrew: ; Ashkenazi Hebrew: ; Biblical Hebrew: Megilath Ruth " the Scroll of Ruth ") is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, or Old Testament.

Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945 ) was a Hungarian composer and pianist.

Basel () or Basle (; ; ) is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166, 000 inhabitants.

Çatalhöyük (; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük, or any of the three without diacritics ; çatal is Turkish for " fork ", höyük for " mound ") was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC.

The Chechen Republic (;, Chechenskaya Respublika ;, Noxc ̈ iyn Respublika ), commonly referred to as Chechnya (;, Chechnya ;, Noxc ̈ iyc ̈ ó ), also spelled Chechnia or Chechenia, sometimes referred to as Ichkeria (), is a federal subject ( a republic ) of Russia.

An argot (; French, Spanish, and Catalan for " slang ") is a secret language used by various groups — including, but not limited to, thieves and other criminals — to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828 ) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.

The House of Habsburg (; ), also Hapsburg, and also known as House of Austria is one of the most important royal houses of Europe and is best known for being an origin of all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1438 and 1740, as well as rulers of the Austrian Empire and Spanish Empire and several other countries.

La Malinche (; c. 1496 or c. 1505 – c. 1529 ), known also as Malinalli, Malintzin or Doña Marina, was a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who played a role in the Spanish conquest of Mexico, acting as interpreter, advisor, lover, and intermediary for Hernán Cortés.

Penélope Cruz Sánchez (; born April 28, 1974 ) is a Spanish actress.

Navarre (; ; ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre ( Spanish: Comunidad Foral de Navarra ; Basque: Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea ), is an autonomous community in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Country, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and Aquitaine in France.

Francesc Macià i Llussà (; 1859 – 1933 ) was the 122nd President of Catalonia and formerly a Catalan officer in the Spanish Army.

Charles V (; ; ; ; 24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558 ) was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I, of the Spanish Empire from 1516 until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I and his son Philip II in 1556.

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (; baptised June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660 ) was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV.

Emilio Butragueño Santos (; born 22 July 1963 in Madrid ) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a striker.

Manu Chao (; born José-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao on June 21, 1961 ) is a French singer of Spanish roots ( Basque and Galician ).

Canasta (; Spanish for " basket ") is a card game of the rummy family of games believed to be a variant of 500 Rum.

St. Charles (; Spanish: " San Carlos ") is a city in and the county seat of St. Charles County, Missouri, United States.

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (; 5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936 ) was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director.

The Province of Málaga (; Spanish Provincia de Málaga ) is located on the southern mediterranean coast of Spain, in Andalusia.

Uno (; from Italian and Spanish for ' one ') is an American card game which is played with a specially printed deck ( see Mau Mau for an almost identical game played with normal playing cards ).

Pauline Viardot García (; 18 July 182118 May 1910 ) was a leading nineteenth-century French mezzo-soprano, pedagogue and composer of Spanish descent.

Luis Buñuel Portolés (; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983 ) was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in Spain, Mexico and France

Raï (; ) is a form of folk music that originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s.

Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (; 28 December 1852 – 18 December 1936 ) was a Spanish civil engineer and mathematician of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The term passacaglia (; ; Italian: passacaglia, passacaglio, passagallo, passacagli, passacaglie ) derives from the Spanish pasar ( to walk ) and calle ( street ).

Plaza (; Castilian or Latin American ) is a Spanish word related to " field " which describes an open urban public space, such as a city square.

The Antilles islands (; Antilles in French ; Antillas in Spanish ; Antillen in Dutch and German and Antilhas in Portuguese ) form the greater part of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea.

Gaspar Llamazares Trigo (; born 28 November 1957 ) is a Spanish politician.