This page is associated with Wikipedia:WikiProject Spain. It is currently under construction. It is an attempt to identify terms—especially official terms—that come up a lot in articles about Spain, and to come up with suggested translations into English.

At present this is, at best, a draft. Help in fleshing it out would be greatly appreciated.

Historic regimes

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Antiguo Régimen
"Ancien Régime" (Antiguo Régimen)
Trienio Liberal
"Liberal Trienium" (Trienio Liberal)
(Markup: "[[Trienio Liberal|Liberal Trienium]]" (''Trienio Liberal''))

Political geography

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aldea
village, hamlet [1] [2]
caserío
hamlet [3]
ciudad
city; (alt.) chartered city, town
comarca
comarca
comunidad autónoma
autonomous community
(Markup: [[autonomous communities of Spain|autonomous community]])
municipio
municipality
(Markup: [[municipalities of Spain|municipality]])
pedanía
hamlet, district (depending on the context)[4][5]
provincia
province
(Markup: [[provinces of Spain|province]])
pueblo
village or small town
región histórica
in the sense used in the 1833 territorial division of Spain: historic region
(Markup: [[Historic regions of Spain|historic region]])
villa / vila
town
More precisely, it is a town with a charter that is not a ciudad

Protected natural spaces

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coto nacional de caza
national hunting reserve
dehesa boyal
cow pasture
That's literal, but I'm not sure it corresponds to how it is used in present-day Spain - Jmabel | Talk
Monte Público
public land, common land
monumento natural
natural monument
paisaje protegido
prtotected landscape
parque nacional
national park
parque natural
natural park
(Markup: [[natural park (Spain)|natural park]])
paraje natural
natural site
reserva natural
nature reserve

Historic/artistic heritage

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Bien de interés cultural is a general term; it includes more specific categories, such as monumento. If you read Spanish, es:Bien de interés cultural is informative about historic monuments etc, but hasn't got much to say about how es:Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial (intangible cultural heritage in English) can be protected as bienes.

  • Conjunto Histórico: Historic Group of Buildings
    • Conjunto Artístico:
    • Conjunto Histórico Artístico:
  • Jardín Histórico: Historic Garden
  • Monumento
    • Monumento Nacional: Monumento nacional
      (Markup: [[Monumento nacional (Spain)|Monumento nacional]])
    • Monumento Histórico-Artístico de Interés Nacional: Historical-Artistic Monument of National Interest
  • Sitio Histórico: Historic Site
  • Zona Arqueológica: Archeological zone
  • Fiestas de Interés Turístico Nacional: Festival of National Touristic Interest

Buildings

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ermita
chapel, sanctuary, chancel, little/small church, little/small shrine[6]
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Ley Orgánico
Organic Law
(Markup: [[Organic Law (Spain)|Organic Law]]

Governmental bodies

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ayuntamiento
Town hall or local government (depending on the context)
Cortes Generales
Cortes Generales
Diputación de provincia
Junta de comunidad autónoma
Foo autonomous government (e.g. Andalusian Autonomous Government)
Partido
legal district (not to be confused with partido in the sense of political party); see also judicial district, an equivalent term with greater currency in North America.

Political parties

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IU or Izquierda Unida
United Left (Izquierda Unida, IU) or United Left or leftist IU
(Markup: [[United Left (Spain)|United Left]] (''Izquierda Unida'', IU) or [[United Left (Spain)|United Left]] or leftist [[United Left (Spain)|IU]])
PP or Partido Popular
People's Party (Partido Popular, PP) or People's Party or right-of-center PP
(Markup: [[People's Party (Spain)|People's Party]] (''Partido Popular'', PP) or [[People's Party (Spain)|People's Party]] or right-of-center [[People's Party (Spain)|PP]])
PSOE
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE) or Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) or left-of-center PSOE
(Markup: [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party]] (''Partido Socialista Obrero Español'', PSOE) or [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party]] (PSOE) orleft-of-center [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party|PSOE]])
Second case handled slightly differently from the others because in Spanish it is nearly universally referred to only by its initials.
Los Verdes
Confederation of the Greens (Confederación de los Verdes) or (Los Verdes)
(Markup: [[Confederation of the Greens]] (''Confederación de los Verdes'') or [[Confederation of the Greens]] ((''Los Verdes''))

Honorifics

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Beneméritos de la Patria
(an honorific title; "Beneméritos" means "meritorious" and functions here as an adjectival noun)

Culture events and issues

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Castillo (pirotecnia)
  • Pyrotecnic structure which is arranged with the aim to cause several figure, effects, colour lights, etc. It is typical in Spanish festivities. This expression is not usually translated into English and a translation propose can be simply 'firework display'.
Chupinazo
  • An act which is carried out for opening a festivity and that consists in a rocket set off.[7]
Paella
  • Apart from being a typical dish, this name is also used to mass paella eating events. When this name is used in a massive universitary people event, it is not necessary the presence of the dish and it is usually a massive people event with food and drink stand and concerts.[8][9]

Sources

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  1. ^ "aldea - Definición de aldea - Diccionario de la lengua española - Edición del Tricentenario".
  2. ^ "hamlet - Wordreference.com Dictionary of English".
  3. ^ "caserío - Definicón de caserío - Diccionario de la lengus española - Edición del tricentenario".
  4. ^ "pedanía - Definición de pedanía - Diccionario de la lengua española - Edición del Tricentenario".
  5. ^ "alcalde - Definición de alcalde - Diccionario de la lengua española - Edición del Tricentenario".
  6. ^ "ermita-Definición".
  7. ^ "Chupinazo – Definición – Diccionario de la lengua española – Rae - Asale" (in Spanish).
  8. ^ "Paellas Universitarias 2019" (in Spanish).
  9. ^ "Paellas Universitarias Valencia 2019: Una fiesta sin permiso de 25.000 jóvenes universitarios desafía al alcalde de Valencia" (in Spanish).