Balearic dialect of Baleric Islands are actually separate languages and not dialects of Catalan. Bauzà has campaigned against having centralized or standardized standards of Catalan in public education. Balearic dialect Balearic (, ) is the collective name for the dialects of Catalan spoken in the Balearic Islands: ' in Majorca, ' in Ibiza, and "" in Menorca. At the last census, 746,792 people in the Balearic Islands claimed to be able to speak Catalan, though some of these people may be speakers of mainland variants. Distinctive features of Catalan in the Balearic Islands differ according to the specific variant being spoken (Mallorcan,
Ottoman raid on the Balearic Islands (1501) Ottoman raid on the Balearic Islands (1501) An Ottoman raid on the Balearic Islands occurred in 1501 under the Ottoman admiral Kemal Reis. This raid was combined with attacks on Sardinia and Pianosa (near the island of Elba). The 1501 raid on the Balearics followed some of the earliest interventions of the Ottomans in the western Mediterranean. These interventions were in response to the Fall of Granada and the help the last Muslim ruler there had requested from the Ottoman Empire in his fight against Castile. Upon this request, the Ottoman sultan Bayezid sent a fleet under Kemal Reis to