Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana – UNESCO World Heritage Centre". Unesco. 27 June 2011. Archived from the original on 13 May 2013 . Retrieved 26 March 2013. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Balearic Islands have been an autonomous region of Spain since 1983. [4] There are two small islands off the coast of Mallorca: Cabrera (southeast of Palma) and Dragonera (west of Palma). The anthem of Mallorca is " La Balanguera". In the ensuing confusion and unrest, King JamesI of Aragon, also known as James the Conqueror, launched an invasion which landed at Santa Ponça, Mallorca, on 8–9 September 1229 with 15,000 men and 1,500 horses. His forces entered the city of Medina Mayurqa on 31 December 1229. In 1230, he annexed the island to his Crown of Aragon under the name Regnum Maioricae.

Keenan, Steve (6 July 2009). "Mallorca v Majorca: which is correct?". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 6 June 2010 . Retrieved 7 April 2013. Politics and government [ edit ] Emblem of the Mallorca Insular Council Regional government [ edit ] José Carlos Llop (17 January 2002). "Cautivos en la isla: En la muerte de Camilo José Cela"[Captives on the island: In the death of Camilo José Cela]. EL Cultural (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 January 2017 . Retrieved 3 January 2017. Majorca: definition". Collins Dictionary. n.d. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018 . Retrieved 16 October 2010.

Margottini, Claudio; Canuti, Paolo; Sassa, Kyoji (2013). Landslide Science and Practice. Vol.7: Social and Economic Impact and Policies. Springer Science & Business Media. p.105. ISBN 9783642313134. Archived from the original on 25 October 2023 . Retrieved 9 April 2018. There are approximately 79 ferries between Mallorca and other destinations every week, most of them to mainland Spain. In 427, Gunderic and the Vandals captured the island. Geiseric, son of Gunderic, governed Mallorca and used it as his base to loot and plunder settlements around the Mediterranean [15] until Roman rule was restored in 465. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Transport in Mallorca. Mallorca current railways Badia Express Cala Millor Miguel Ángel Nadal, Rafael Nadal's uncle, former FC Barcelona and Spanish international footballer.

Bruyèl-Olmedo, Antonio; Juan-Garau, Maria (19 September 2015). "Minority languages in the linguistic landscape of tourism: the case of Catalan in Mallorca". Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 36 (6): 598–619. doi: 10.1080/01434632.2014.979832. ISSN 0143-4632. S2CID 145220830. Archived from the original on 2 August 2022 . Retrieved 17 February 2022. Eaktay Ahn (1906–1965), founder of the Balearic Symphony Orchestra and composer of the Korean national anthem, lived in Mallorca from 1946 until his death in 1965. [79] Florio, Erin (19 July 2018). "Spanish Island Tells Tourists to Stay Home". Condé Nast Traveler. Archived from the original on 15 December 2019 . Retrieved 20 November 2019. The Largest Islands Of Spain By Size". worldatlas.com. Archived from the original on 8 January 2018 . Retrieved 8 January 2017. Conor Benn, British professional boxer, spent twelve years of his childhood living in Mallorca. [81]Mallorca, [a] or Majorca, [b] [2] [3] is the largest island of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Blasco Esteve, Avelino (2016). "Consejos insulares y diputaciones provinciales". Documentación Administrativa. Madrid: Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública (3). doi: 10.24965/da.v0i3.10371. ISSN 1989-8983. Archived from the original on 20 July 2020 . Retrieved 20 July 2020. Joan Miró, a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist, had close ties to the island throughout his life. He married Pilar Juncosa in Palma in 1929 and settled permanently in Mallorca in 1954. [53] The Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca has a collection of his works. Es Baluard in Palma is a museum of modern and contemporary art which exhibits the work of Balearic artists and artists related to the Balearic Islands. Mallorca has two mountainous regions, the Serra de Tramuntana and Serres de Llevant. Both are about 70km (43mi) in length and occupy the northwestern and eastern parts of the island respectively.