minorca

Sometimes it cheaper to fly from London to Minorca airport than from Madrid or Barcelona.

In fact, some islands like Minorca have very little flights except during summer.

Here's a little bit from the wiki on the battle > The Battle of Minorca (20 May 1756) was a naval battle between French and British fleets.

> famous quote from The Battle of Minorca More accurately it's a famous quote from the satirical novel Candide by Voltaire, published in 1759.

It told me that the Catalan language spoken in the west of the island of Minorca is influenced by the language spoken in the west of the Iberian Peninsula, which is completely stupid.

One can argue that it was certainly an early and self-inflicted 'brain-drain' through policies instituted by the post-Williamite British state that may have had longer term consequences (the loss of Minorca and the loss of America came in fairly rapid succession, for example) to the British and the distinct and separate traditions allowing them to be less attached to a sovereign but a cause.

Shortly after the war began British and French squadrons met off the Mediterranean island of Menorca (historically called "Minorca" by the British).

It is about The Battle of Minorca, not that the battle matters much in this context.

The subsequent decision by the British to withdraw to Gibraltar handed France a strategic victory and led directly to the Fall of Minorca.

I'm from the Balearic Islands, Catalan (from Minorca) is my mother tongue.