Catalan may refer to:

Catalonia

From, or related to Catalonia:

  • Catalan language, a Romance language
  • Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia

Places

  • 13178 Catalan, asteroid #13178, named "Catalan"
  • Catalán (crater), a lunar crater named for Miguel A. Catalán
  • Çatalan, İvrindi, a village in Balıkesir province, Turkey
  • Çatalan, Karaisalı, a village in Adana Province, Turkey
  • Catalan Bay, Gibraltar
  • Catalan Sea, more commonly known as the Balearic Sea
  • Catalan Mediterranean System, the Catalan Mountains

Facilities and structures

  • Çatalan Bridge, Adana, Turkey
  • Çatalan Dam, Adana, Turkey
  • Catalan Batteries, Gibraltar

People

  • Catalan, Lord of Monaco (1415–1457), Lord of Monaco from 1454 until 1457
  • Catalán (surname), people with the surname Catalán
  • Arnaut Catalan (1219–1253), troubador
  • Eugène Charles Catalan (1814–1894), French and Belgian mathematician
  • 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
  • Catalan's conjecture

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

Sports and games

  • Catalan Opening, in chess
  • Catalan Open, golf tournament
  • Catalans Dragons, a rugby league team often known simply as Catalan
  • XIII Catalan, a rugby league team from Perpignan, France

Other uses

  • Battle of Catalán (1817) in Uruguay
  • Catalan Sheepdog
  • Catalan Company, medieval mercenary company
  • Catalan vault, architectural design element
  • The Catalans, a 1953 novel by Patrick O'Brian

See also

  • Catalonia (disambiguation)
  • Catalunya (disambiguation)
  • Anti-Catalanism