{"id":823,"date":"2021-07-29T13:02:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T11:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gibaltar.cat\/?page_id=823"},"modified":"2025-07-28T06:56:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:56:28","slug":"in-english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gibaltar.cat\/index.php\/in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"In English"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aim of the Gibaltar.cat<\/strong> portal, which went live in the summer of 2021, is for it to be a repository of all the research into the links between the Catalan Countries and Gibraltar that I, Mart\u00ed Crespo (Barcelona, 1972), have carried out over the last few decades as a journalist, linguist and researcher. The main intention is to highlight the significant contribution of Catalans, Menorcans and Valencians to the history of Gibraltar and, in particular, to the creation of today\u2019s Yanito identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since around the year 2000, I have been researching all kinds of historical, cultural, social and political aspects of the relationship between these two territories of the Iberian Peninsula, and some of those studies have found their way into articles, reports and papers delivered at conferences. A result of all that research was also the book Els ‘minorkeens’ de Gibraltar<\/a><\/em> (PAMSA, 2018), which focuses specifically on the Menorcan community established in Gibraltar since the 18th<\/sup> Century. The English version is available here<\/a><\/strong> (introduction here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All those articles will thus be available on the internet (mostly published in Catalan) together with many other (unpublished) originals. I have also added some transcriptions of documents which I think are of great interest but which, for the time being, cannot be found in digital version. One example of that is the extremely important and very interesting diary<\/a> of the allied occupation of Gibraltar in 1704 and the subsequent Spanish-French start-up in 1705, written in exile by the Austrian Francesc de Casamitjana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gibaltar.cat is a portal that is constantly being updated and articles and documents will be uploaded to it from time to time. For enquiries, information or comments, please contact gibralcat [at] gmail.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The content of Gibaltar.cat is in Catalan. The site will offer some of it translated professionally into English or Spanish, but the option to automatically translate other pages into English or Spanish is also available from sites and platforms such as Apertium.org<\/a>, Opentrad.com<\/a> and Google Translate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Articles in English<\/strong> (mostly by Brian Porro)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction to the English language version of my book<\/strong><\/a>
The English translation of my book (August 2021) about the Menorcan community in Gibraltar deserves a proper introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surnames of Menorcan origin in Gibraltar<\/strong><\/a>
An introduction to surnames brought to the Rock by Menorcans in the 18th and 19th Centuries<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Great Siege\u2026 with a Minorcan emphasis<\/strong><\/a>
A personal diary of the Great Siege written by a Minorcan priest. Translated into English by Manolo Galliano<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swim to freedom<\/strong><\/a>
The republican Dr. Francesc Dalmau i Norat escaped from a Francoist disciplinary battalion in 1940 by swimming at night from Los Barrios to the Rock<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Architect with Menorcan Roots behind the Design of the Sacred Heart Church of Gibraltar<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosa Vila: from Menorca to Gibraltar, passing through Hong Kong and South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gir\u00f3s, a Menorcan family on Main Street with a French past and a future in M\u00e1laga<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catalan and Menorcan placenames in Gibraltar<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following in the footsteps of father Vilaplana in Gibraltar \u2013 Made famous by Molly Bloom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hidden Histories of el Patio Carreras<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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