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'''Álvarez''' or '''Álvares''' may refer to:

The '''Alvarez''' was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[automobile]] built in [[Barcelona]] from [[1921]] to around [[1923]]. Also known as the "MA", the car was a sporting [[cyclecar]] with brakes on all four wheels. It was manufactured by [[Jesus Battlo]].

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==People==

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*[[Álvarez (surname)]], Spanish surname

'''Alvarez''' is also the name of several people:

* [[Luis Alvarez]] was a [[physicist]] who won the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] for proposing that an [[impact event]] caused the [[Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event]] that wiped out the [[dinosaur]]s.

* [[Don Gregorio Alvarez]] was a [[historian]].

* [[Alvarez-Adriaansen]]

==Places==

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*[[Alvares (river)]], a river in northern Spain

*[[Alvares (ski resort)]], in Iran

*[[Alvares, Iran]]

*[[Alvares, Portugal]]

*[[Álvarez, Santa Fe]], a town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina

*[[Álvarez, Tamaulipas]], Mexico

*[[Alvarez Glacier]], Antarctica

*[[General Mariano Alvarez, Cavite]], Philippines

*[[Los Alvarez, Texas]], US

*[[3581 Alvarez]], an asteroid

==Other uses==

'''Alvarez''' is a [[Sephardic]] [[patronymic]] family name which has several meaning and several background; Arabic, Hebrew and German. It first found in [[Castile]], the name theoretically originated in [[Visigothic]] times;

*[[Alvarez (Gotham)|Alvarez (''Gotham'')]], a character in the TV series ''Gotham''

* Manny Alvarez, a [[List of The Last of Us Part II characters#Manny|character in ''The Last of Us Part II'']]

*[[Alvarez Guitars]], an acoustic guitar manufacturer

*'''Son of Alvaro''' (=The prudent one) or (=speaker of Truth).

*"Alvarez", a song by the band [[Funeral for a Friend]]

*"Uncle Alvarez", a song by [[Liz Phair]]

==See also==

Alvaro allegedly come from a germanous person, Halward; [[Hal]]= hidden, mysterious and [[Ward]]= guardian

*[[Álvares]], a Portuguese and Galician surname

*[[Alvarez' syndrome]], a medical disorder

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[[be:Альварэс]]

However Alvarez does not have the same etymology in Arabic; it supposedly comes from Al-Faris or Faris meaning a Knight, Chivalrous or a Cavalier, and communally stend for "A heroic Knight who fought on horseback".

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*'''Son of Alvar'''(=Elf Army)

[[fi:Álvarez]]

Alvar; 1382 from Latin Calvaria. It theoretically stand for Cavalary wich is the name of the mount of cruxification in Aramaic we talk of gulgulta [[place of the skull]]; [[Golgotha]].

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The different motto of the Alvarez families are;

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* Veritas Vincit (=Truth conquers)

[[ro:Álvarez]]

* Tu in ea et ego pro ea (= You for here and us for here)

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[[uk:Альварес (значення)]]

[[zh:阿尔瓦雷斯]]

http://heraldicahispana.com/ApA/alvarez-alvarezdelbayo.htm http://www.sephardim.com/html/heraldry.html

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