He assumed the title of Alfonso XII, for although no King of united Spain had borne the name " Alfonso XI ", the Spanish monarchy was regarded as continuous with the more ancient monarchy represented by the 11 kings of Asturias, León and Castile also named Alfonso.

Just like " Northumbrian smallpipe "' or " Great Highland Bagpipe ", each region attributes its toponym to the respective gaita name: gaita galega ( Galicia ), gaita transmontana ( Trás-os-Montes ), gaita asturiana ( Asturias ), gaita sanabresa ( Sanabria ), sac de gemecs ( Catalonia ), gaita de boto or gaita aragonesa ( Aragón ), etc.

Avilés was originally founded in 1903 under the name Avilés Sport Club, hence being considered the oldest football club in Asturias.

He is also memorialized in a poem by Miguel Ángel Asturias that bears his name.

Villalobos gave the Philippines their name, after calling them Islas Filipinas in honor of the Infante of Asturias at the time, Philip II of Spain.

It may come from " Valle del Ese " in the Valdés County, Asturias ( Spain ), where the name originates, or as an evolution from the Germanic " balderich ".

** Valdés ( Asturias ), a Spanish municipality in the province of Asturias, birthplace of the name.

According to the chronicles of Alfonso III of Asturias ; the first reference to the name " Castile " ( Castilla ) can be found in a document written during AD 800.

The name reflects its origin as a march on the eastern frontier of the Kingdom of Asturias, protected by castles, towers or castra.

The comarcas of Asturias are listed here, each with its Spanish-language name first, followed by its Asturian-language name if that differs:

* Philip VI of Spain, future regnal name of Felipe, Prince of Asturias

< span lang =" la "> Gallaecia </ span > or < span lang =" la "> Callaecia </ span >, also known as Hispania Gallaecia, was the name of a Roman province and an early Mediaeval kingdom that comprised a territory in the north-west of < span lang =" la "> Hispania </ span > ( approximately present-day northern Portugal, and León ( province ), Asturias and < span lang =" es "> Galicia </ span > in Spain ).

The Romans gave the name < span lang =" la "> Gallaecia </ span > to the northwest part of the Iberian peninsula ( north of Portugal, Galicia, Asturias, Leon and Cantabria ).

Gijón ( or, in Asturian, Xixón ; official name: Gijón / Xixón ) is one of eight comarcas ( this is the Spanish word ; the Asturian is cotarros ), administrative divisions of Asturias, which is a province and an autonomous community in Spain.

* The Reconquista, from 722, initially led by Pelagius of Asturias, until 1249 ( in Portugal only ), the Christian reaction to the Muslim invasion in which several Christian kingdoms slowly expanded themselves over Iberia at the expense of the Moorish states of Al-Andalus, and in the context of which Portugal emerges as an autonomous entity as the First County of Portugal, in 868, when Count Vímara Peres conquers the area from the Minho River to the Douro River, including the city of Portus Cale, from where the name and political entity of Portugal issued.

It aired in 2009 and was shot in Lastres, Asturias, with the fictional name of San Martín del Sella twinned with Portwenn.

The Order of Santiago (, ) was founded in the 12th century, and owes its name to the national patron of Galicia and Spain, Santiago ( St. James the Greater ), under whose banner the Christians of Galicia and Asturias began in the 9th century to combat and drive back the Muslims of the Iberian Peninsula.

Alto del Angliru ( alternative name: La Gamonal ) is a steep mountain road in Asturias, near La Vega-Riosa, in northern Spain.

He was a vassal of the King of Asturias, Léon and Galicia, Alfonso III, and was sent to reconquer and secure from the Moors ( Arabs and Berbers who had invaded Visigothic Hispania ), in the west coastal fringe of Gallaecia, the area from the Minho River to the Douro River, including the city of Portus Cale, later Porto and Gaia, from where the name of Portugal emerged.

Despite the new name, this music is not considered suggestive of the folk music of the northern Spanish region of Asturias, but rather of Andalusian flamenco traditions.

At a later date, in the beginning of the Reconquista period in the early Middle Ages, their name was preserved in the medieval Kingdom of Asturias and in the modern town of Astorga, León, whose designation still reflects its early Roman name of Asturica Augusta, the " Augustan settlement of the Astures ".

In 2006 during the Vallenato Legend Festival, the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia agreed to promote local coffee as one of their products, under the name Cafe Festival de la Leyenda Vallenata ( Vallenato Legend Festival Coffee ).

That girl last night, what was her name??

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.

But neither was Lilian her baptismal name.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

The name inside the envelope was `` Cynthia ''.

Her name was Esther Peter.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.