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  • His translation projects included Spanish renderings of Daniel Defoe ... ranks among the best novels written in Spanish in the past century and ...
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  • After the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century, the indigenous ... a derivative of the Mvskoke, a Creek language word simano-li, an adaptation ...
    17 KB (2,474 words) - 16:40, 24 November 2023
  • China. From the sixteenth century, the Spanish controlled the port. In ... Vigan constitutes the best example of a Spanish colonial town in the ...
    13 KB (1,737 words) - 20:19, 3 May 2023
  • redesign and launched its first foreign-language edition, in Japanese. The ... in Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Arabic, as well as ...
    10 KB (1,451 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
  • missionary, and confessor of the Spanish queen-regnant Isabella II ... that Pius IX—at the request of the Spanish crown (queen-regnant Isabella ...
    9 KB (1,350 words) - 19:06, 22 December 2022
  • The Treaty of Tordesillas (Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesilhas, Spanish: ... sought a new papal bull on the subject. Spanish-born Pope Alexander VI, ...
    16 KB (2,550 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
  • an end 780 years of Muslim control in the Spanish peninsula. the suspicions and interrogations of the Spanish Inquisition. In 1609, descendants ...
    14 KB (2,177 words) - 20:23, 1 November 2023
  • were either criollo (South Americans of Spanish ancestry) or mestizo (of ... region, which first had thrown off the Spanish colonial regime and had ...
    11 KB (1,764 words) - 04:47, 18 April 2024
  • Huitzilíhuitl (Nahuatl language; English: Hummingbird Feather, Spanish: Pluma de colibrí) was the second tlatoani of the Mexica (Aztecs), governing ...
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  • Luis de Góngora y Argote (July 11, 1561 – May 24, 1627) was a Spanish ... out, Gongora’s contribution to the Spanish language should not be underestimated ...
    19 KB (2,991 words) - 10:37, 9 March 2023
  • Fra Junípero Serra (November 24, 1713 – August 28, 1784) was a ... A supporter of human rights, Serra was often in conflict with Spanish ...
    13 KB (1,972 words) - 14:16, 12 May 2024
  • 31, 1936) was a multi-faceted Spanish writer, an essayist, novelist ... opened the way for the renaissance of Spanish theater undertaken by Ramón ...
    16 KB (2,413 words) - 17:47, 9 November 2022
  • (phare), Italian (faro), Portuguese (farol), Spanish (faro), Romanian (far), and Greek (φάρος). === Construction === [[Image:Lighthouse of ...
    10 KB (1,528 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
  • Grammy, produced four number-one Spanish-language hits. ... Dreaming of You, a combination of Spanish-language songs and new English ...
    16 KB (2,443 words) - 17:47, 25 January 2023
  • forms that would revolutionize Spanish-language poetry. In his early years, García Lorca's poetry was marked by the ...
    13 KB (2,000 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
  • |langs=Mapudungun, Spanish |related=Picunche }} Mapuche (Mapudungun; ... against the Inca empire, and later the Spanish, for over 300 years. To ...
    21 KB (3,210 words) - 11:10, 9 March 2023
  • speaking languages such as French and Spanish; however, it would be several ... it to Tuscany where he adapted it to his language when he founded the Neo ...
    11 KB (1,767 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
  • the city of Lima, Peru, founded in 1535 by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro ... capital and most important city in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, established ...
    19 KB (3,062 words) - 21:54, 31 January 2024
  • arrobas of silver." (An arroba is a Spanish unit of weight equivalent ... In Spanish there is still a saying, valer un potosí, "to be ...
    14 KB (2,123 words) - 05:55, 30 November 2022
  • and eaten. In fact, the words for mermaid in Spanish, Siren, French, Sirène, Italian, Sirena, Polish, Syrena, and Portuguese, Sereia, show the connection ...
    10 KB (1,575 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023

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