Hidalgo
Hidalgo and Fidalgo (in Galician and Portuguese) are traditional titls for men of the Spanish nobility gentry. The word hidalgo is a contraction of the phrases hijo de algo (″son of something″) and hijo de alguien (″son of someone″). In formal social usage, the Spanish Court rigorously regulated who was and who was not entitled to call himself Un hidalgo; by extension, in Spanish cultural usage, the word hidalgo is applied to describe a man who is of a noble and generous spirit, ″a gentleman″ (un caballero).
In Mexican culture and history, the word hidalgo is the surname of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, and so refers to the Jesuit priest who was the first warlord of the Mexican War of Independence (1810–1820).
Hidalgo may also refer to:
Places
Mexico
- Hidalgo (state), a state in central Mexico
- Hidalgo, Coahuila, a town in Coahuila
- Hidalgo, Nuevo León, a city in Nuevo León
- Hidalgo, Tamaulipas, a municipality in Tamaulipas
- Miguel Hidalgo, D.F., a borough of the Federal District
- Hidalgo Yalalag, Oaxaca
- Frontera Hidalgo, Chiapas
- Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas
- Ciudad Hidalgo, Michoacán
- Villa Hidalgo, Baja California
- Villa Hidalgo (Northern Chiapas), Chiapas
- Villa Hidalgo (Southern Chiapas), Chiapas
- Villa Hidalgo, Coahuila
- Villa Hidalgo, Durango
- Villa Hidalgo, Jalisco
- Villa Hidalgo, Nayarit
- Villa Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí
- Villa Hidalgo, Sonora
- Villa Hidalgo, Tamaulipas
- Villa Hidalgo, Zacatecas
- Villa Hidalgo (Santa Rita), Zacatecas
United States
Fiction
- Hidalgo, a fictional Central American nation in the Doc Savage stories
Other uses
- Hidalgo (surname)
- Hidalgo (film), starring Viggo Mortensen, named for Frank Hopkins' horse
- Hidalgo Limited, a technology design company based in Cambridge, UK, developer of Equivital
- Hidalgo (Sherry), a Spanish Sherry producer
- Hidalgo (moth), a moth genus
- 944 Hidalgo, an asteroid
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ended the Mexican–American War
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