Arriaga
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Arriaga is a Basque
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Basque people
The Basques as an ethnic group, primarily inhabit an area traditionally known as the Basque Country , a region that is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay and straddles parts of north-central Spain and south-western France.The Basques are known in the...
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- Guillermo ArriagaGuillermo ArriagaGuillermo Arriaga Jordán is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer. Self-defined as “a hunter who works as a writer,” he authored Amores Perros, received a BAFTA Best Screenplay nomination for 21 Grams, and received the 2005 Cannes Best Screenplay Award for The Three Burials of...
, Mexican author, screenwriter and producer - Fr. Joaquín Sáenz y Arriaga, S.J., Mexican theologian, sedevacantist
- Juan Crisóstomo ArriagaJuan Crisóstomo ArriagaJuan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola was a Spanish composer. He was nicknamed the "Spanish Mozart" after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was also a child prodigy and an accomplished composer who died young...
1806-1826, Basque-Spanish composer- Teatro ArriagaTeatro ArriagaThe Teatro Arriaga is an opera house in Bilbao, Spain. It was built in Neo-baroque style by architect Joaquín Rucoba in 1890, the same architect that built the city hall...
, opera house in Bilbao, commemorates him
- Teatro Arriaga
- Manuel de ArriagaManuel de ArriagaManuel José de Arriaga Brum da Silveira e Peyrelongue was a Portuguese lawyer, the first Attorney-General and the first elected President of the First Portuguese Republic, following the abdication of King Manuel II of Portugal and a Republican Provisional Government headed by Teófilo Braga Manuel...
1840-1917, president of Portugal - Ponciano ArriagaPonciano ArriagaPonciano Arriaga was a lawyer and politician from San Luis Potosí.Arriaga rose to prominence in the late 1840s and is particularly known for pushing for the equality of people through property rights. Arriaga proposed a law in which the government would confiscate lands from the local hacienda...
, 19th-century Mexican politician - Kaúlza de ArriagaKaúlza de ArriagaKaúlza de Oliveira de Arriaga, OA, GCC, OC, OIH was a Portuguese General, writer, professor and politician...
, commander of Portuguese troops in the Mozambican War of IndependenceMozambican War of IndependenceThe Mozambican War of Independence was an armed conflict between the guerrilla forces of the Mozambique Liberation Front or FRELIMO , and Portugal...
- Ponciano Arriaga International AirportPonciano Arriaga International AirportPonciano Arriaga International Airport is an international airport located at San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. It handles national and international air traffic for the city of San Luis Potosí.-Airlines and destinations:- Cargo Airlines :...
, serves San Luis Potosí
- Ponciano Arriaga International Airport
- Arriaga, ChiapasArriaga, ChiapasArriaga is a city and one of the 119 municipalities of Chiapas, in southern Mexico.As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 34,032....
, town in southern Mexico