Hidalgo

Hidalgo (nobility) (Fidalgo in Galician and Portuguese) is a traditional title of persons of the Spanish nobility or gentry. The word is a contraction of the phrases 'hijo de algo', literally "a son of something." Despite this informal-sounding term, the Spanish court rigorously regulated who was and who was not entitled to call himself an hidalgo. By extension the word is also used in Spanish for a person of noble and generous spirit (gentleman).

In Mexico, the word is usually used in reference to Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, the first warlord of the Mexican War of Independence.

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

• Hidalgo, Illinois
• Hidalgo, Kentucky
• Hidalgo, Texas
• Hidalgo County, New Mexico
• Hidalgo County, Texas

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