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	CalendarHome.com - Catalan Company - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Company offered its service to Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens, in 1310, and within a year it freed the duchy of its enemies, only to be betrayed by Brienne who did not recognize his obligations.
		The Company attacked, defeated and killed Brienne on March 15, 1311 in the Battle of Halmyros on the river Cephissus in Boeotia, and thus took control of the duchy of Athens.
		The early history of the Catalan Company was chronicled by Ramón Muntaner, a member of the company, in his Crònica.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Catalan_Company (884 words)

	Catalan Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Catalan Company, or in full the Catalan Company of the East (Companyia Catalana d'Orient in Catalan) or the Grand Catalan Company of the Almogàvers (Gran Compañía Catalana de los Almogávares in Spanish), was a free company of mercenaries founded by Roger de Flor in early 14th-century Europe.
		The Company offered its service to Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens, in 1310, and within a year it freed the duchy of its enemies, only to be betrayed by Brienne who did not recognize his obligations.
		The Company attacked, defeated and killed Brienne on March 15, 1311 in the Battle of Halmyros on the river Cephissus in Boeotia, and thus took control of the duchy of Athens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catalan_Company (892 words)

	Catalan Company@Everything2.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Catalans arrived - with the assistance of Frederick III of Sicily - in September of 1303, de Flor marrying the daughter of the Bulgarian Tsar and acquiring the title of Megaduke (equivalent to an Admiral), as he had been promised.
		The Catalan Company was defeated in 1388 at the Battle of Kaledes (also referred to as the Battle of Peritheorion or the Battle of Anastasioupolis) near Lake Vistonis, between Xanthi and Komotini.
		The Company was humbled and subjected to the rule of Florence until the Ottoman Empire moved into Greece in 1456.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=1500811 (1102 words)

	Catalan Spanish -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Catalan (''Català'', ''Valencià'') is a Romance language understood by as many as 12 million people in portions of Spain, France, Andorra and Italy, although the majority of active Catalan speakers are in Spain.
		According to the Ethnologue, its specific classification is a member of the East Iberian branch of the Ibero-Romance branch of the Gallo-Iberian branch of the Western branch of the Italo-Western branch of the Romance branch of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language famiily.
		Catalan's conjecture is a simple conjecture in number theory that was proposed by the mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/28/catalan-spanish.html (609 words)

	Encyclopedia: Catalan Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Catalan Company, or in full the Catalan Company of the East (Companyia Catalana d'Orient in Catalan) or the Grand Catalan Company of the Almogavars (Gran CompaÃ±Ãa Catalana de los AlmogÃ¡vares in Spanish), was a free company of mercenaries founded by Roger de Flor in early 14th-century Europe.
		Catalan or Valencian (CatalÃ, ValenciÃ) is a Romance language understood by as many as 12 million people in portions of Spain, France, Andorra and Italy, although the majority of active Catalan speakers are in Spain.
		De Flor was inspired to form the company by the mediaeval tale of Tirant lo Blanc, after the Peace of Caltabellotta in 1302 had left jobless the soldiers from Catalonia and Aragon who had been fighting against the French dynasty of Anjou.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Catalan-Company (2521 words)

	Station Information - Catalan Company
		The Oriental Catalan Company, or the Grand Company, was founded by Roger de Flor (who inspired the medieval tale of Tirant lo Blanch) after the Peace of Caltabellotta in 1302 had left jobless the soldiers from Catalonia and Aragon fighting against the French dynasty of Anjou.
		Roger de Flor arrived in Constantinople with the help of king Frederick III of Sicily in 1303, married the niece of Andronicus, daughter of the tsar of Bulgaria, and was named megaduke (head of the fleet), as was previously agreed.
		The Company answer was to devastate the regions of Thrace and Macedonia for the following two years - devastation that stayed in Greek popular memory until the beginning of the 20th century.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/catalan_company.html (832 words)

	Catalan Company -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In small squads the Almogavares used to raze and sack the land of their enemies, and were frequently drafted by Christian armies to fight the (Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss) Moors.
		The Company attacked, defeated and killed Brienne on March 15, 1311 in the Battle of Halmyros on the river (Click link for more info and facts about Cephissus) Cephissus in (A district of ancient Greece northwest of Athens) Boeotia, and thus took control of the duchy of Athens.
		Around this time, the Company was also responsible for the final destruction of the ancient city of (An ancient Greek city in Boeotia destroyed by Alexander the Great in 336 BC) Thebes.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Ca/Catalan_Company.htm (693 words)

	Encyclopedia: Catalan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Catalan Company (or Catalan Grand Company was a mercenary free company which finallu conquered much of Greece.
		The Catalan is a chess opening which can be considered to be White adopting a mixture of the Queens Gambit and English Opening: White plays d4 and c4 and fianchettos his bishop on g2.
		The Oriental Catalan Company, or the Grand Company, was founded by Roger de Flor (who inspired the medieval tale of Tirant lo Blanc) after the Peace of Caltabellotta in 1302 had left jobless the soldiers from Catalonia and French dynasty of French in 1282.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Catalan (494 words)

	Barony Of Vatavia, The Grand Catalan Company
		The emperor’s son and co-emperor, Michael, was ill-disposed to the company as it was his military failure that resulted in the company’s coming.
		He saw the chaos created by the Catalan company as an opportunity to expand his holdings, and the company as the means.
		By 1380 the Duchy was a shell, and the company in disarray.
	www.baronyofvatavia.org /articles/hisfig/catalan042003as37.php (1573 words)

	Catalan Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Oriental Catalan Company, or the Grand Company, was founded by Roger de Flor (who inspired the medieval tale of Tirant lo Blanch) after the Peace of Caltabellotta in 1302 had leftjobless the soldiers from Catalonia and Aragon fighting against the French dynasty of Anjou.
		The Company answer was to devastate the regions of Thrace and Macedonia for the followingtwo years - devastation that stayed in Greek popular memory until the beginning of the 20th century.
		The Company offered its service to Walter of Brienne, Duke of Athens,in 1310, and within a year it freed the duchy of its enemies, only to be betrayed byBrienne who did not recognize his obligations.
	www.therfcc.org /catalan-company-169155.html (833 words)

	The Catalan Grand Company (1302-1388) DBA IV-60
		The Catalan Company was raised in 1281 to fight as mercenaries in the War of the Sicilian Vespers, where the Angevin and Aragonese dynasties fought over the Kingdom of Sicily.
		The Catalan Company asked the royal house of Catalonia-Aragon to provide them with a figurehead ruler; during the next seventy years they were "ruled" by a succession of eight absentee Dukes, none of which seem to have ever set foot in Athens.
		In 1379 another free company from the Iberian peninsula, the Navarrese Company, moved on from its efforts to conquer Albania and attacked the Catalan Duchy of Athens in concert with a Florentine force.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/IV60/index.html (1682 words)

	ICANN \| .cat New sTLD RFP Application
		Indeed, according to Spanish and Catalan civil law (which will apply to the Foundation, as it will be based in Barcelona as well), a foundation is just an entity managing a number of assets for the achievement of a concrete goal (the sponsorship of the.cat TLD, in the case of Fundació puntCAT).
		Catalan, for instance, is spoken in three adminsitratives divisions of Spain (and partly in a fourth), another in France and just one in Italy, as well as being the sole official language of a country, Andorra.
		Examples would be being a member of the Catalan Publishing Association or a member of the Guild of Writers in Catalan language (the Catalan section of the PEN Club, for example), or the Association of Catalan Cultural Centers in any of the different regions where they exist.
	www.icann.org /tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/cat.htm (8555 words)

	NOVES SL. WINTER 2005. FACTOR MOBILITY, EFFICIENCY AND LANGUAGE DISCRIMINATION (and 2)
		Catalan continues to be the language of power and prestige in the community, and is a necessary requirement when seeking advancement; it is the only language used by the managers and company owners.
		The third strategy which is beginning to emerge is where companies are owned by foreigners specialising in patients from their respective countries and basically employing foreign doctors as well as some Spanish nationals as auxiliaries.
		The reinforcement of linguistic divisions inside the company in the case of strategy 1) can be explained by the fact that the language in question is a vital counter in the hierarchic rationalisation of the company and in power relations, shaping the paths of promotion within the company.
	www6.gencat.net /llengcat/noves/hm05hivern/a_alarcon2_2.htm (1510 words)

	Catalan Company (DBA 165)
		The Catalan Company was raised in 1281 to fight as mercenaries in the War of the Sicilian Vespers, where the Angevin and Aragonese dynasties fought over the Kingdom of Sicily.
		The Catalan Company asked the royal house of Catalonia-Aragon to provide them with a Duke as a figurehead; during the next seventy years they were "ruled" by a succession of eight absentee Dukes, none of which seem to have ever set foot in their Duchy.
		In particular, the Catalan Company fought against the Palaiologan Byzantines (the Byzantine Empire), the Epirot Byzantines in Thessaly, and the Morean Byzantines in Greece.
	www.umiacs.umd.edu /~kuijt/dba165/dba165.html (1670 words)

	Catalan Translation: Catalan translator, Catalan to English translation, English to Catalan translation, Catalan ...
		Catalan is a modern Romance language, closely related to Occitan (the language spoken in southern France).
		The majority of the 10,500,000 inhabitants of the Catalan countries operate with both Catalan and Spanish and it's estimated that about half of them have Catalan as their mother tongue.
		Catalan is the official language of Andorra and co-official with Spanish in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.
	www.global-translation-services.com /language.asp?lang=Catalan&language=en (359 words)

	Catalan Translation - Translate Catalan Language Translator
		Catalan was exported in the 13th century to Balearic Islands and the newly created Valencian Kingdom by the Catalan and Aragonese invaders (note that the area of Catalan language still extends to part of what is now the region of Aragon).
		In fact, Septentrional Valencian (spoken in the Castelló province and Matarranya valley, a strip of Aragon) is more similar to the Catalan of the lower Ebre basin (spoken in southern half of Tarragona province and another strip of Aragon) than to apitxat Valencian (spoken in the city of Horta, in the province of Valencia).
		Catalan developed by the 9th century from Vulgar Latin on both sides of the Pyrenees mountains (counties of Rosselló, Empuries, Besalú, Cerdanya, Urgell, Pallars and Ribagorça).
	www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/catalan.shtml (1869 words)

	Catalan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Catalan forge, an early type of open-hearth furnace
		Catalan vault, an architectural feature (also known as a Catalan arch or a Catalan turn)
		The Catalan Company (or Catalan Grand Company), a mercenary free company in 14th century Europe
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catalan (117 words)

	Complaint: SEC v. Going Platinum, Inc. and Alan H. Catalan
		Catalan told investors that they did not have to actually recruit new investors in order to receive commissions; rather, Going Platinum promised to create a down-line network for existing members by crediting them with referrals that the member had no role in bringing into the program.
		Although Catalan represented to investors that the fees being collected were segregated, the investor funds were placed into a Going Platinum operating account, and then used to pay operating expenses and recruiting "commissions." Going Platinum sent commission checks by mail and/or wired them directly into investors' bank accounts.
		Defendants Catalan and Going Platinum caused such securities to be carried through the mails and in interstate commerce, by the means and instruments of transportation, for the purpose of sale and delivery after sale.
	www.sec.gov /litigation/complaints/comp18239.htm (1717 words)

	Catalan translation, English to Catalan translation, Catalan to English translation, Catalan web site translation, ...
		Whether you are a Catalan company hoping to break into the English speaking market or you have a product to sell to Spain, WTB Language Group can help you.
		Professional translators whose native language is Catalan perform our English to Catalan translation.
		They have in-depth understanding of the subject matter and solid mastering of the Catalan language including its spelling, grammar, and cultural appropriateness.
	www.wintranslation.com /languages/catalan.html (292 words)

	Catalan language - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Catalan language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is spoken in Cataluña in northeastern Spain, the Balearic Islands, Andorra, and a corner of southwestern France.
		Since the end of the Franco regime in Spain 1975, Catalan nationalists have vigorously promoted their regional language as being equal in importance in Cataluña to Castilian Spanish, and it is now accepted as an official language of the European Union.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Catalan+language (163 words)

	List of company name etymologies - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		DHL - the company was founded by Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom, and Robert Lynn, whose last initials form the company's moniker.
		The company was originally spun off from the Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd in 1895 as Northern Electric and Manufacturing, and traded as Northern Electric from 1914 to 1976.
		The company was founded after Steve Jobs bought the computer graphics division from Lucasfilm for $10 million.
	open-encyclopedia.com /List_of_company_name_etymologies (5608 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Dumbstruck
		Despite the fact that the Catalan language is central to identity here, most of the major Catalan theatre companies either banish the spoken word entirely or relegate it to a very distant and neglected second place.
		Another entirely mute Catalan company is Tricicle, a hugely popular classic mime troupe founded in 1980 by Joan Gràcia, Carles Sans and Paco Mir to enliven Catalan theatre with the flickering, monochrome spirits of Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers.
		However, the group that most epitomises the Catalan tradition of right-hemisphere theatricality is La Fura dels Baus, which began in 1979 as a union of like-minded anarchists, the core hailing from the tiny village of Moia and the rest from Barcelona's emerging avant garde.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1049726,00.html (1257 words)

	NOVES SL. AUTUMN 2002. CECOT COMPANIES AND THEIR LANGUAGE USES, ATTITUDES AND SERVICES (3)
		A total of 33.8% of companies surveyed acknowledged that they seldom or never used Catalan in their leaflets and brochures, 25% always or often used it and 8.3% sometimes used this language.
		Of the companies that had set down their own guidelines, almost eight out of ten ruled that Catalan had to be used in dealings with clients, whether in person or over the telephone.
		Despite the wide variety of companies, a greater number of managerial staff from the services sector have adopted Catalan as the language of use for all situations, whereas managers of industrial companies point out the use Catalan in written communication with clients.
	www6.gencat.net /llengcat/noves/hm02tardor/catalana/a_cecot3_8.htm (702 words)

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