Sant Andreu de Palomar
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Sant Andreu
Sant Andreu is one of the ten districts into which Barcelona has been divided up since 1984. It was named after a former municipality in the plain of Barcelona called Sant Andreu de Palomar, the largest in the area, which makes up nowadays the bulk of a neighbourhood bearing the same name...
district of Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, Catalonia
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...
(Spain
Spain
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). It was the main core of the former municipality of Sant Andreu de Palomar that more or less coincides with what is now the district of Sant Andreu.
The first document about Sant Andreu is dated in 992
992
Year 992 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.- Africa :* The Ghana Empire captures the Berber town of Awdaghost.- Europe :* Boleslaus I becomes Duke of Poland....
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