"Juan Fernández de Heredia, Gran Maestre de la Orden de San Juan de Jerusalén, acuñó este precioso gigliato donde incluyó el castillo propio del linaje de los Fernández de Heredia

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El gigliato (o giliat) de plata, era una moneda encunyada originàriament pel Regne de Nàpols i molt imitada pels Cavallers de l'Orde de Sant Joan a l'illa de Rodes

Font: Publicació de @_rojirin_ a Twitter

L'escena té lloc a la petita localitat de Rilly-la-Montagne, una coneguda zona de vinyes a la regió de Marne, França

Source: @TheNameOfWar on Twitter

Autor: Unknown

Artist: Frédéric Duriez

This inscription mentions the master stonemason who built the altar at Maqaber Gaewa (Ethiopia) 2700 years ago. His name was Hayrhumu and his clan are asociate with Yemen...

Font: @Guerraenlauni en Twitter

"Imagina un univers de fantasia africà on aquestes són simplement les armes estàndard." @byramonade 9/8/26

Este post m'ha despertat la curiositat per la Història de l'Àfrica negra. Fora del que toca al Mediterrani o l'Islam, no dispose de biblioteca decent sobre el tema.

Source: @byramonade (Yoruba tribe, Nigeria) and @AChukwuche15183 on Twitter

"El valencià va avançar amb força entre 2001 i 2011

En bona part dels municipis va augmentar el percentatge de població que sabia parlar-lo, llegir-lo i escriure'l, amb pujades que en alguns casos van superar els +40 pp

La comprensió, en canvi, mostra una evolució molt més desigual, amb avenços i retrocessos segons el municipi."

Source: EspanAtlas.es

OP: @CalcetinLetal on Twitter

(Post original amb dades de País Valencià, Euskadi, Navarra, Balears, Aragó o Catalunya als citats)

Source: @JoseCT1982 on Twitter

Poster, map and flag for an exhibition in Castelló de la Ribera with a photograph showing, with parking lots, the evolution and name changes that have occurred in this town since the 1970s, where the name of the town has become a cause for conflict and even a political and linguistical weapon

More info on Viquipèdia

Source: Facebook (cartel)

Dialectal varieties of the Catalan language in Spain. Catalan, called Valencian in Valencia (it is used as a political issue) currently has at least 10 million speakers. It is taught in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, parts of Aragon and in French Roussillon. It is also spoken in Alghero, an Italian city, although increasingly in a residual way.

I don't know the author of the map. Based on the dialectal division of Manel Milà i Fontanals (1861)

https://www.enciclopedia.cat/gran-enciclopedia-catalana/catala

CAT/VAL:

Sarcòfag de Palaepafos, taüt de pedra calcària (segle V aC) desenterrat el 2006 a Xipre, preserva una de les representacions artístiques més antigues conegudes de l’Odissea d’Homer.

Pintat als seus costats hi ha l’episodi en què Odisseu i els seus companys escapen de la cova del Cíclop Polifem amagant-se baix de les panxes de les ovelles després d’encegar el gegant.

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The Palaepafos Sarcophagus, a limestone coffin (5th century BC) unearthed in 2006 in Cyprus, preserves one of the oldest known artistic representations of Homer's Odyssey.

Painted alongside it is the episode in which Odysseus and his companions escape from the cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus by hiding under the bellies of sheep after blinding the giant.

Museu Arqueològic Local de Palaepafos

Font: @archeohistories on Twitter

Hi everybody again!

I uploaded this linguistic map of Catalan language and I've noticed some confusion regarding Catalan, Aragonese, and Occitan. Despite all three belonging to the same language family, they are not the same language (although I'll reserve my opinions on Aragonese and Catalan). I've found some maps that illustrate this quite well (all corrections are welcome, of course)

Galoroman languages > Green and blue map

Oïl languages (French, Wallon...)

Òc languages (Occitan)

Galloitalic languages

Rhaeto-Romance languages [also considered Gallo-Romance]

Occitanoroman languages > Red and purple map

Occitan

Aragonese

Catalan-valencian

Source: Viquipèdia

European cartography identifies the entity called "Kingdom" or "Empire of Marruecos" much before the beginning of nineteenth-century colonialism in Africa.

Source: @agarciasanjuan on Twitter

Map by: Robert Morden (c. 1650–1703)

I have an extensive but old library on History and I've never, in either physical or digital format, come across a map as detailed as this one

from user @khlavkalashguy on Twitter: https://x.com/i/status/2084423732957716799

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Coats of arms of Culla, Atzeneta del Maestrat, Moixent, Torre Xiva, Atzúbia and Xérica, in Valencian Country (Spain).

Many other Valencian towns have representations of castles on their coats of arms, not to mention the towns that refer to them with their own name (Castelló de la Plana, Castelló de la Ribera, Castell de Guadalest, Castell de Castells, etc...)

Source: Llista d'escuts del País Valencià (Viquipèdia)

This image shows a joint electoral poster by Luis Ibarra Landete and Alfredo Marco Tabar for the elections for procurators to the Spanish Cortes for the "Tercio Familiar" for the province of Álava, held in 1971

During the Franco dictatorship, the Cortes were not elected by free universal suffrage. One of the few ways of direct voting (restricted to heads of families and married women) was the Tercio Familiar. Each province elected two attorneys, which is why the poster reminds us that "You have the right to vote for TWO candidates"

The Candidates: Luis Ibarra Landete (left pic): Basque soldier and politician, he was mayor of Vitoria between 1957 and 1966. The poster promotes himself with the slogan "Vote for efficiency"

Alfredo Marco Tabar (right pic): Lawyer and politician, who would later be mayor of Vitoria during the Transition and senator for the UCD in 1977. The poster presents himself with the slogan "Vote for youth"

Both candidates formed a tandem that was the winner in those elections in Álava, becoming attorneys of the X Legislature of the Francoist Cortes (1971-1977)

Traduced from Catalan to English with Google Traductor

Wikipedia de Luis Ibarra Landete

Font: Notícias Diario de Álava