Catalan

Look up Catalan, Catalans, catalan, catalans, or catalán in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Catalan may refer to:

• From, or related to Catalonia
  • Catalan language, a Romance language
  • Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Catalonia
  • Països Catalans, territories where Catalan is spoken
  • Catalan cuisine, a Mediterranean style of cuisine from Catalonia
  • Catalans Dragons, a rugby league team often known simply as Catalan

People

• Catalan, Lord of Monaco (1415–1457), Lord of Monaco from 1454 until 1457
• Eugène Charles Catalan (1814–1894), French and Belgian mathematician
• Miguel A. Catalán (1894–1957), Spanish spectroscopist
• Moses Chayyim Catalan (died 1661), Italian rabbi

Mathematics

Mathematical concepts named after mathematician Eugène Catalan:

• Catalan numbers, a sequence of natural numbers that occur in various counting problems
• Catalan solids, a family of polyhedra
• Catalan's constant, a number that occurs in estimates in combinatorics

Places

• Catalán (crater), a lunar crater named for Miguel Ángel Catalán
• Çatalan, Karaisalı, a village in Adana Province, Turkey

Wine

• Catalan (grape), another name for the wine grape Mourvèdre
• Catalan wine, an alternative name used in France for wine made from the Carignan grape
  • Carignan, a wine grape that is also known as Catalan

Other uses

• Catalan Opening, in chess
• The Catalans, a 1953 novel by Patrick O'Brian

See also

• All pages beginning with Catalan