Capitan
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Capitan, Capitano, and Kapitan are equivalents of the English Captain in other European languages, usually referring to:
  • Captain (land)
  • Captain (naval)
    Captain (naval)
    Captain is the name most often given in English-speaking navies to the rank corresponding to command of the largest ships. The NATO rank code is OF-5, equivalent to an army full colonel....


Capitan, Capitano, and Kapitan may also refer to:

Companies

  • Capitan (tequila), a brand of tequila produced by Barton Brands
    Barton Brands
    Barton Brands, Ltd. was a company that produced many distilled spirits and liquors. In 2009, it became part of the Sazerac Company of New Orleans....

  • Capitan Records, a record label set up by US musician Chris Brokaw
    Chris Brokaw
    Chris Brokaw is an American musician, mostly known for his work with the bands Come and Codeine.While studying at Oberlin College, Brokaw met many people who became figures on the American indie rock scene of the 1990s, among them Stephen Immerwahr, who formed Codeine with Brokaw, as well as...


Geography

  • Capitan, Louisiana
    Capitan, Louisiana
    Capitan is an unincorporated community in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana.The community is located near the intersection of LA Hwy 89 and Platt Rd.-References:...

    , an unincorporated community in the United States
  • Capitan, New Mexico
    Capitan, New Mexico
    Capitan is a village in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States, located north of the Lincoln National Forest between the Capitan and Sacramento Mountains at an elevation of 6,530 feet . The population was 1,443 at the 2000 census...

    , a village in the United States

Media

  • Il Capitano
    Il Capitano
    Il Capitano is a masked character from the commedia dell'arte. He is often an outside who can maintain his claims only by benefit of the fact that none of the locals know him. He is usually a Spaniard given the fact that for most of the late Renaissance to well into 17th century, Italy was under...

     (the Captain), a masked character from the Commedia dell'Arte
  • Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem
    Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem
    Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem is a 1991 Swedish-Finnish biographical drama film directed by Jan Troell, about the 1988 Åmsele murders where a family of three was murdered by Juha Valjakkala over a stolen bicycle. Antti Reini stars as Valjakkala, renamed Jari in the film, and Maria Heiskanen as...

    , a 1991 Swedish-Finnish film
  • Le Capitan, a novel by Michel Zevaco
    Michel Zevaco
    Michel Zevaco was a French journalist, novelist, publisher, film director, and anti-clerical as well as anarchist activist....


Other uses

  • Kapitan, another name for Opperhoofd
    Opperhoofd
    Opperhoofd is a Dutch word which literally means 'supreme head'.The Danish equivalent Overhoved, which is derived from a Danish pronunciation of the Dutch word, is also treated here....

    , a Dutch colonial governor
  • Kapitan Cina or Capitan China, an originally Portuguese title for the representative of a Chinese enclave

See also

  • Capoten, a drug used for the treatment of hypertension
  • El Capitan (disambiguation)
    El Capitan (disambiguation)
    El Capitan is the name of a cliff in Yosemite Valley, California.El Capitan may refer to:-Bodies of water:...

  • Kapitän
    Kapitän
    Kapitän is the German word for Captain. It is also a shortened version of several ranks in the German navy, ranging from Korvettenkapitän to Kapitän zur See. The general meaning is equivalent to Captain....

    , a shortened version of several ranks in the German navy
  • Katepano
    Katepano
    The katepánō was a senior Byzantine military rank and office. The word was Latinized as capetanus/catepan, and its meaning seems to have merged with that of the Italian "capitaneus"...

    , a senior Byzantine military rank and office
  • Kapudan Pasha, the admiral of the navy of the Ottoman Empire
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