Palma de Mallorca - People from Palma de Mallorca, Ramon Llull, Palma, Majorca, Simeon Ben Zemah Duran, Valeriano Weyler, 1st Duke of Rubi (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 18. Chapters: People from Palma de Mallorca, Ramon Llull, Palma, Majorca, Simeon ben Zemah Duran, Valeriano Weyler, 1st Duke of Rubi, Francisco Palou, Pedro Caro, 3rd Marquis of la Romana, Xisco Nadal, Antonio Maura, Concha Buika, Gabriel Alomar i Villalonga, Rossy de Palma, Joaquin Jovellar y Soler, Palma Cathedral, Jose Orlandis, Antonio Barcelo, Gabriel Estarellas, Alfons Marti Bauca. Excerpt: Palma (Catalan: , Spanish: formerly Palma de Mallorca) is the major city and port on the island of Majorca and capital city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. The names Ciutat de Mallorca (English: City of Majorca) and Ciutat were used before the War of the Spanish Succession and are still used by people in Majorca. However, the official name was Mallorca, the same as the island. It is situated on the south coast of the island on the Bay of Palma. As of the 2009 census, the population of the city of Palma proper was 401,270, and the population of the entire urban area was 517,285, ranking as the twelfth largest urban area of Spain. Almost half of the total population of Majorca live in Palma. The Cabrera Archipelago, though widely separated from Palma proper, is administratively considered part of the municipality. Its airport, Son Sant Joan, serves over 22 million passengers each year. The Marivent Palace was offered by the city to the then Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain. The royals have since spent their summer holidays in Palma. Palma was founded as a Roman camp upon the remains of a Talaiotic settlement. The turbulent history of the city saw it the subject of several Vandal sackings during the fall of the Roman Empire, then reconquered by the Byzantine, then colonised by the Moors (who called it Medina Mayurqa), and finally established by James I of Aragon. After the conquest of Majorca, it was loosely inc...