Arriaga
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Arriaga is a Basque
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 Arriaga
    Guillermo Arriaga
    Guillermo 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 Arriaga
    Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga
    Juan 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 Arriaga
      Teatro Arriaga
      The 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
  • Manuel de Arriaga
    Manuel de Arriaga
    Manuel 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 Arriaga
    Ponciano Arriaga
    Ponciano 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 Arriaga
    Kaúlza de Arriaga
    Kaúlza 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 Independence
    Mozambican War of Independence
    The Mozambican War of Independence was an armed conflict between the guerrilla forces of the Mozambique Liberation Front or FRELIMO , and Portugal...

    • Ponciano Arriaga International Airport
      Ponciano Arriaga International Airport
      Ponciano 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
  • Arriaga, Chiapas
    Arriaga, Chiapas
    Arriaga 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
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