Caitano Bardón
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Caitán Bardón also rendered Cayetano Álvarez Bardón, was a Leonese language
Leonese language
The Leonese language is the endonym term used to refer to all vernacular Romance dialects of the Astur-Leonese linguistic group in the Spanish provinces of León and Zamora; Astur-Leonese also includes the dialects...

 writer. His work "Cuentos en Dialecto Leonés" was one of the first books written in the Leonese language in the 20th century.

A street in León
León, Spain
León is the capital of the province of León in the autonomous community of Castile and León, situated in the northwest of Spain. Its city population of 136,985 makes it the largest municipality in the province, accounting for more than one quarter of the province's population...

was named in Bardón's honour, to commemorate his contributions to literature in Leonese.
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