The kingdom of the Asturias began to grow around Covadonga where Pelayo became king, then around Pravia, a few kilometers northwest of Oviedo,

# Dictionnaire des cardinaux and some other sources indicate he became bishop of Oviedo but other sources call this an error

Mijatović made his La Liga debut on 5 September 1993 against Real Oviedo and immediately became an integral part of coach Guus Hiddink's squad.

It was there that bishop Andrés de Oviedo died and was buried in 1577, and his tomb became a shrine to the local Catholics.

Born in Coronel Oviedo, Caaguazú, Nicanor Duarte grew up during the Stroessner administration and was affiliated with Stroessner's Colorado Party at the age of 14 while attending high school in Coronel Oviedo.

Oviedo left the ruling Colorado Party and founded his own political party, National Union of Ethical Citizens, but lately has been criticized by his own followers for choosing his children and other family members for legislative candidacies, rather than political backers with more experience.

In 1998, Raúl Cubas stood for the Colorado Party presidential nomination, his main policy being freeing Oviedo, and won.

Oviedo's running mate, Raúl Cubas, replaced Oviedo on the Colorado Party ticket, but lacked the widespread support that Oviedo commanded.

In January 2008, Lino Oviedo, who was released from prison in September 2007, was nominated unopposed as the party's presidential candidate for the April elections.

After delaying for two months, Cubas openly defied the Supreme Court in February 1999, refusing to return Oviedo to jail.

In December 2001, Brazil rejected Paraguay's petition to extradite Oviedo to stand trial for the March 1999 assassination and " Marzo Paraguayo " incident.

Atlético were only awarded a place during the 1939 – 40 season as a replacement for Real Oviedo, whose ground had been damaged during the war.

In the all time league table for the Spanish top division, Oviedo rank in 17th place.

In 1988 Oviedo returned to the top division, after ousting RCD Mallorca in the promotion playoffs ( 2 – 1 on aggregate, with striker Carlos, who would feature prominently for the club in the following years, scoring one of the goals ), and remained in that level for 13 consecutive seasons – in 1990 – 91 it finished sixth, qualifying once again for Europe, and being knocked out in the first round by Genoa C. F. C.

After the death of Juan Ponce de León, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo wrote in Historia General y Natural de las Indias ( 1535 ) that Ponce de León was looking for the waters of Bimini to cure his aging.

On 4 April 1997, the Council, at Oviedo, approved the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine.

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés wrote that Ponce de León was looking for the waters of Bimini to cure his aging.

Although place names still remain ( such as Alfaião, Babe, Baçal, Bagueixe, Mogadouro, among others ) the influence of the Islamic civilization to the northern regions and Douro ( as well as mountainous enclaves ) has been little, except for a passing reference to a Pelagius Count of Bragança during the Council of Oviedo ( in 970 ).

Her maternal grandparents are Francisco Julio Rocasolano Camacho ( Madrid, 21 July 1918 -), a mechanic and a cab driver in Madrid for over 20 years, and half-Filipino wife ( m. Madrid, 1950 ) Enriqueta Rodríguez Figueredo ( Oviedo, 2 March 1919 – Madrid, 22 June 2008 ); by her maternal grandfather she is of French and Occitan origin.

* Telma Ortiz Rocasolano, ( born in Oviedo on 25 October 1973 ), a Licentiate in Economics from the University of Barcelona and an economist who works for international aid agencies.

In the 17th century conceptualism gained favour for some decades especially among the Jesuits: Hurtado de Mendoza, Rodrigo de Arriaga and Francisco Oviedo are the main figures.

The key being " a certain form ", since Bancroft makes clear in a footnote that the majority of his sources, including Clavigero, Ternaux-Compans, Carbajal Espinosa, Oviedo y Herrera, and especially Acosta, believed Durán and others " confounded the custom of drawing blood from the secret organs with circumcision ", and " the incision on the prepuce and ear to have been mistaken for circumcision ", adding that this blood-letting rite was " chiefly performed upon sons of great men " ( p279 ).

He maintained that Oviedo was the target of political persecution and that the military tribunal that convicted him for his alleged participation in a subversive plot was illegal according to the constitution, as it had been conducted in time of peace.

Lino Oviedo's similarly-named nephew, Lino César Oviedo Sánchez, is a member of the Senate of Paraguay for UNACE since 2008.

According to research done by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Harvard University, in 2010 for the PBS series Faces of America, Longoria's Spanish ancestry can be traced back to her ninth great-grandfather, Lorenzo Suarez de Longoria ( b. Oviedo, 1592 ), who emigrated to the Viceroyalty of New Spain in 1603 ( now modern-day Mexico ), and whose family originated from a small village called Llongoria, Belmonte de Miranda, Asturias, Spain.

The fights between the bishops of Oviedo and Lugo for the territories located between the rivers Navia and Eo came to an end by means of an agreement promoted by the king Alfonso VII.

He tried again to obtain the party's presidential nomination for the 1998 election, losing in a bitterly contested primary election against General Lino Oviedo.

There was widespread belief that President Cubas, a relatively weak political leader, was merely a puppet for the disgraced General Oviedo, and one of Cubas ' first actions as president was to grant Oviedo a pardon from prison, defying the Supreme Court.

In March 1999, vice president Luis María Argaña, a key political enemy of both Oviedo and president Cubas, was assassinated.

* Comparative Study of the Sudarium of Oviedo and the Shroud of Turin, 1998, paper presented at the " III Congresso Internazionale di Studi Sulla Sindone " in Turin.

Due to the General's involvement in a failed coup attempt in 1996, Oviedo was imprisoned before the 1998 general election.

The ruling left Oviedo free to run in the April 2008 presidential election.

After being relegated two consecutive times, Real Oviedo suffered severe economic troubles, which, when coupled with a profound lack of institutional support from the city's government, resulted in the team's inability to pay its players.

The Kingdom of León was founded in 910 A. D. when the Christian princes of Asturias along the northern coast of the peninsula shifted their main seat from Oviedo to the city of León.

During his reign, the city of Oviedo was founded, on November 25, 761, when the Abbot Máximo and his uncle Fromestano erected a church in honour of Saint Vincent there.

Alonso attended the Holy Guardian Angel Primary School in Oviedo until he was 14 when he later attended the Institute Leopoldo Alas Clarín of San Lazaro.

It was founded in AD 910 when the Christian princes of Asturias along the northern coast of the peninsula shifted their capital from Oviedo to the city of León.

After days of tension, Wasmosy offered him the Defence Ministry instead, but when Oviedo went to the presidential palace to take the oath, dressed in civilian clothes, the President, backed by popular demonstrations, withdrew the offer.

Born in Oviedo in 1883, his father died when he was six years old ; his mother moved him to Bilbao in 1891.

Woody Allen, upon receiving the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award in 2002 in Oviedo remarked: " when I left New York, the most exciting film in the city at the time was Spanish, Pedro Almodovar's one.

The belief that Argaña was assassinated to prevent an Oviedo opponent from running the country was strengthened when Congress sought to extradite the general from Argentina, without success.

Collymore was linked with various clubs, but eventually signed for Spanish La Liga side Real Oviedo on 31 January 2001, when he was greeted by 1, 500 fans.

Woody Allen, upon receiving the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award in 2002 in Oviedo remarked: " when I left New York, the most exciting film in the city at the time was Spanish, Pedro Almodovar's one.

Spanish newspapers were accused of racism when one headline read El Valencia va a por alemanes y vuelve con un negro (" Valencia goes out to buy Germans and comes back with a black man "), but he was always loved during his spell at the club, netting in his debut with the Che, a 2 – 1 La Liga home win against Real Oviedo, and being eventually nicknamed La perla negra de Malí ( The black pearl of Mali ); he complained, however, that he was constantly played out of position.

Antić was hired to coach Real Oviedo when the club's brass fired previous longtime coach Javier Irureta after week 19 of the 1992 / 93 season with the club dangerously close to the relegation zone in 16th spot and a one match stint of caretaker Julio Marigil Marín.

Antić's most notable signing at Oviedo came before the start of 1994 – 95 season when he brought often injured Prosinečki from Real Madrid, thus reuniting with a player he signed to Madrid in the first place.