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- Classical Nahuatl (in the Latin alphabet), Spanish, and occasionally Latin. ... European paper, with drawings and Spanish language text on both sides of ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 05:19, 26 August 2023
- Jusepe de Ribera (January 12, 1591 – 1652) was a Spanish Tenebrist ... Ribera was a leading painter of the Spanish school, although his mature ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 06:44, 28 February 2023
- Juan Ponce de León (c. 1460 – July 1521) was a Spanish conquistador ... while serving as Governor. He married a Spanish woman named Leonore and ...10 KB (1,638 words) - 06:05, 10 May 2024
- are: translation of statements from a natural language (such as English, Spanish, or Japanese) into formal logical language; logical equivalence, ...7 KB (926 words) - 06:33, 1 April 2024
- 23, 1876 – November 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. ... At the outset of the twentieth century, there were few native Spanish ...10 KB (1,487 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
- him to be one of the greatest Spanish-language poets in history. He ... vigor to the stale, monotonous Spanish-language poetry of the time. ...13 KB (2,077 words) - 19:46, 20 August 2022
- is a regional form of the Spanish language which is mainly spoken ... The adoption of the Spanish language in the area was due to Spanish ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, Carmelite friar ... one of the foremost poets in the Spanish language. Although his complete ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 08:11, 3 August 2022
- Shuar, in the Shuar language, means "people."As Claude Lévi ... to mission boarding schools to learn Spanish. In 1935, the Ecuadorian ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 17:14, 27 October 2020
- population of any of the autonomous Spanish states. In terms of land ... The Spanish language spoken in The Americas today is largely descended ...14 KB (2,046 words) - 19:54, 26 July 2023
- They were similarly never conquered by the Spanish, defeating successive expeditions ... 25,000, many of whom speak the Yaqui language in addition to Spanish and/or ...14 KB (2,202 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- Through his play Spanish Tragedy, Kyd introduced the genre of "revenge ... The Spanish Tragedie was probably written in the mid to late 1580s ...12 KB (1,976 words) - 21:20, 30 April 2023
- transmits news in French, English, Arabic, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and ... will operate in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic. It initially ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 06:44, 16 June 2023
- In 1851, the Spanish in Manila began launching attacks which destroyed ... Qudarat eventually ceded Palawan to the Spanish Empire in 1705. ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 21:54, 26 February 2023
- semantic function. For example, such a language might have a verb that means ... There are six classes of adjectives in the English language: ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- any word that modifies any other part of language: verbs, adjectives (including ... by adding '-mente' (Portuguese, Spanish, Italian) or '-ment ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 23:31, 17 December 2022
- brought great change to this people. The Spanish missionaries forced Christianity ... Through their basketmaking, music, and language, they hope to encourage ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- States. They were brought to Europe by Spanish and Portuguese explorers ... Indians of the West Indies by way of the Spanish word patata. The English ...11 KB (1,640 words) - 07:24, 24 October 2022
- Falls (Portuguese: Cataratas do Iguaçu, Spanish: Cataratas del Iguazú) ... and were displaced in turn by the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadores ...10 KB (1,592 words) - 13:42, 4 February 2023
- Mansfield was captured and killed by the Spanish shortly afterwards, Morgan ... Morgan prominently, who distressed the Spanish. It was also Morgan who ...11 KB (1,645 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- His translation projects included Spanish renderings of Daniel Defoe ... ranks among the best novels written in Spanish in the past century and ...9 KB (1,243 words) - 21:13, 4 October 2022
- 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 ...6 KB (967 words) - 16:11, 9 February 2024
- 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
- is Spanish for "Big River" and es|Río Grande del Norte quot;río" means "river" in Spanish, the phrase "Rio Grande ...17 KB (2,584 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- were also translations into German, Dutch, Spanish and Czech.Wilson & Wilson ... editions include Latin, German, French, Spanish and Dutch versions, and ...10 KB (1,439 words) - 19:13, 7 February 2023
- the United States of America. The first Spanish explorers of the Southwest ... The Spanish word pueblo, evolved from the Latin word populus (people ...16 KB (2,339 words) - 23:24, 14 December 2023
- part of their huge empire until the Spanish conquest in 1538. When the Spanish conquistadores overran the Inca Empire, Pedro Anzures ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- Machu Picchu (Quechua language: Old Mountain; sometimes called the ... 1109427 corresponding article] in the Spanish-language Wikipedia. Retrieved ...16 KB (2,638 words) - 04:50, 5 November 2022
- Jambalaya (ˌdʒʌmbəˈlaɪə or ) is a casserole-style dish of Spanish ... in the culinary traditions of the French, Spanish, African, and Native Americans ...19 KB (2,856 words) - 22:44, 16 December 2021
- raft Kon-Tiki. Indeed, the name balsa derives from Spanish for a raft. As a light and soft material, it is also a very popular material for model ...6 KB (941 words) - 04:22, 11 January 2023
- José Martí was born on January 28, 1853, in Havana, to a Spanish ... the countryside. Thus, he came to resent Spanish rule of his homeland at ...19 KB (3,059 words) - 06:30, 6 May 2024
- at least 30 languages, including French, Spanish, Welsh, Afrikaans, Malay ... human voice: adapted also to the English language as a complete system of ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 12:46, 22 July 2022
- The River Paraguay (Río Paraguay in Spanish, Rio Paraguai in Portuguese, and meaning “big mirror of waters” in the native Guaraní language ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 07:45, 18 November 2022
- Italian: diritto comparato, Spanish: derecho comparado, Portuguese: direito comparado, Greek: Συγκριτικό Δίκαιο) is the study ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 08:07, 14 January 2023
- KEE-no-uh, Spanish quinua) is a tall South American herb, Chenopodium ... The plant's name is the Spanish spelling of the Quechua name ...14 KB (2,175 words) - 15:58, 7 December 2022
- States who speak Wichita, a Caddoan language. They were known as the ... have been undertaken to preserve their language, although few fluent speakers ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 18:44, 4 May 2023
- The Baroque Churches of the Philippines refers to four Spanish-era ... The Spanish had been the greatest power in the world during the late ...20 KB (2,841 words) - 08:18, 20 September 2023
- appeared in Italian (Venice, 1488; Milan 1489), Spanish (Seville, 1536), Arabic (Rome, 1663), Armenian (Rome, 1674), Hebrew (Frankfort, 1837), and other ...10 KB (1,599 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- had begun his career editing a German-language publication in St. Louis ... === Spanish-American War === Pulitzer and Hearst are often credited ...18 KB (2,650 words) - 09:56, 23 May 2023
- and largest city, is also named after. In Spanish it is usually called Belice ... explanation is that it derives from the Spanish pronunciation of "Wallace ...24 KB (3,477 words) - 11:57, 9 May 2024
- won immediate fame. Written in fluent Spanish, the book was one of the ... Latin, Portuguese, English, and Spanish. His major work is his Nishmat ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 06:43, 5 November 2022
- Saint Isidore of Seville (Spanish: es|San Isidro or es|San Isidoro ... Gaul and Narbonne attended, as well as the Spanish prelates. The Council's ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
- Dr. John Willinsky in the Department of Language and Literacy EducationThe ... Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese ...14 KB (1,916 words) - 23:35, 2 December 2022
- English (Cathay), Portuguese (Catai), and Spanish (Catay) appellations of ... clothing and refused to use the Chinese language, devising a writing system ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
- Greek, Hebrew, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish and of course his native ... Tyndale introduced new words into the English language: ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- Aruba was discovered by Spanish explorer Alonso de Ojeda and claimed ... from Arawak, in combination with Dutch, Spanish, and African ancestors. ...22 KB (3,174 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- Many Omaha speak their native language, which is taught in their ... The Omaha speak a Siouan language which is very similar to that spoken ...12 KB (1,854 words) - 00:35, 18 November 2022
- For example, the thirty-letter alphabet of Spanish treats ñ as a basic letter ... does not define a particular single language or alphabet, the Unicode ...17 KB (2,611 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- Cusco (also spelled Cuzco, and in the Quechua language as Qusqu ... in the foundations and lower stories of Spanish colonial structures. ...22 KB (3,238 words) - 06:49, 12 January 2024
- by steeping dried leaves of yerba mate (Spanish) / erva-mate (Portuguese ... is called a bombilla in Latin American Spanish, a bomba in Portuguese, ...18 KB (3,004 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- This city that was founded by Spanish explorers on the feast day of ... of the Assumption on August 15, 1537, by Spanish explorers Juan de Salazar ...19 KB (2,690 words) - 18:39, 19 August 2023
- quot; in Guarani and "reddish fox" in Spanish) * Dusicyon (Falkland Island fox) * Lycalopex (Hoary fox) * Otocyon (Bat-eared fox) ...10 KB (1,577 words) - 06:39, 1 April 2024
- staff in Britain and in Spain. He spoke fluent Spanish, which served him well in his writings on that country, and he could read several other languages ...11 KB (1,727 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- word is uncertain, the term Marranos in Spanish and Portuguese meant "pigs ... against them, in which thousands died. The Spanish Inquisition was instituted ...22 KB (3,432 words) - 16:11, 6 November 2022
- |poptime=4,800 [https://www.ethnologue.com/language/UTE Ute-Southern ... and their war parties attacked the Spanish explorers. They also were ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 13:48, 3 May 2023
- Prior to Spanish colonization, the area was a center of Mayan and ... Before the arrival of the Spanish in the area, Yucatán was the home ...27 KB (4,045 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- by the complexity of the colloquial language found in his works. Many ... #039;s sentence length compares to other Spanish literature authors. Rulfo ...12 KB (1,960 words) - 06:06, 10 May 2024
- agriculture. When first encountered by the Spanish in the 1500s, they were ... The Pueblo people have retained their pre-Spanish way of life to a ...29 KB (4,495 words) - 18:09, 14 April 2023
- are smaller in terms of area. Formerly the Spanish colony of Spanish Guinea ... 1959 the area was united as the colony of Spanish Guinea. Spanish rule of ...26 KB (3,689 words) - 19:14, 13 February 2024
- * Cúrcuma or Palillo (South America) in Spanish * മഞ്ഞള് (manjal) in Malayalam * Куркума (Kurkuma) in Russian ...16 KB (2,344 words) - 19:02, 6 November 2022
- of Romanticism, Grillparzer's poetic language owes far more to the period ... tragedy in the trochaic measure of the Spanish drama, already made popular ...15 KB (2,376 words) - 05:19, 9 April 2024
- are related to the Choctaws, who speak a language very similar to the Chickasaw ... The Chickasaw first had contact with Europeans in 1540, when Spanish ...14 KB (2,099 words) - 15:20, 10 December 2023
- Montivideans have very strong European origins, with Italian and Spanish ... The first European to explore Uruguay was the Spanish navigator Juan ...15 KB (2,073 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
- Ages. It was introduced to the Americas by Spanish colonists. ... Arabic "Kammon كمون" through Spanish "comino" during ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- of teaching children in their native language. Instruction occurs in the ... Given that a common language is essential for good communication and ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 03:50, 1 October 2023
- The word "cowboy" first appeared in the English language ... It appears to be a direct English translation of vaquero, the Spanish ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:14, 11 January 2024
- come from Latin (namely Portuguese, Spanish, and French). Conversely ... is no evidence that they utilized written language, although they did use the ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- and files its news stories in English, Spanish and Arabic. UPI has offices ... With investment from News World in its Arabic and Spanish-language ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 11:51, 3 May 2023
- dogs, similar to the Canary Mastiff (in Spanish, el Presa Canario), may ... feet (3,718 meters), the highest point on Spanish soil. ...28 KB (4,064 words) - 19:14, 25 November 2023
- standard in the speaker's dialect or language. Slang is often highly regional ... a "register" is a subset of a language used for a particular purpose ...15 KB (2,298 words) - 22:49, 29 January 2023
- defend and contribute to the growth of the Spanish language. ... From the Spanish they maintained the Spanish language, the Catholic religion ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
- of his Iberian roots and fluency in Spanish, a few commentators consider ... of his Iberian roots and fluency in Spanish, a few commentators consider ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- *Preuniversitario or Preu, Pre, or Preú (Chilean Spanish, Chile) *Escuela propedéutica (Mexican Spanish, Mexico) *Finishing school, (India) ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 01:09, 7 April 2022
- (March 10, 1549 – July 14, 1610), was a Spanish missionary in South America ... tribes of different tongues in one language and yet be understood by ...8 KB (1,278 words) - 13:07, 5 September 2022
- the Gila River since before the arrival of Spanish explorers. Their traditional ... US-Mexico border. The park is named after Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de ...22 KB (3,316 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- the Atlantic and first discovered by the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de ... ===The Spanish search of the Spice Islands=== The aim of Columbus& ...20 KB (3,084 words) - 17:19, 26 March 2024
- In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural ... to the grammar of all the speakers of the language), in which case the term ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- other members. Clifford studied Greek, German, Spanish, French, Arabic and Sanskrit, as well as Morse code and shorthand. He was responsible for the ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 11:09, 10 May 2023
- The Altiplano (Spanish for high plain), where the Andes are at their ... them and eventually abandoning the Uro language for that of the Aymara. ...14 KB (2,293 words) - 05:37, 4 March 2023
- are based on Catalonian law, its language is Catalan, as is a large ... the bishop of Urgell. He was arrested by Spanish authorities on July 20 and ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- |languages=Miskito, Spanish, Miskito Creole English |religions=Christianity ... Mosquito Coast. There is a native Miskito language, but large groups speak ...25 KB (3,718 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- 12, 1926) – sometimes referred to by the Spanish translation of his name ... htm] Biography at ArteHistoria, ( in Spanish) access date 2005-11-09 ...15 KB (2,338 words) - 07:00, 31 July 2023
- Before the Spanish colonization and missionaries, the Zuni lived peacefully ... The Hawikuh Pueblo was the first pueblo seen by the Spanish explorers ...22 KB (3,332 words) - 06:15, 13 June 2023
- contested by the United Kingdom and the Spanish Empire and, later, Guatemala ... After the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century, most of the inhabitants ...32 KB (4,189 words) - 17:46, 11 May 2023
- Francisco Pizarro (c. 1475 – June 26, 1541) was a Spanish conquistador ... treason. The Incas were also surprised by Spanish tactics, which employed ...25 KB (4,083 words) - 04:54, 9 April 2024
- Islands, were governed as part of the Spanish East Indies from the Philippines ... and all human life began in Guam. While Spanish Catholic missionaries abolished ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- He administered English tests to Spanish-speakers and non-schooled ... deficiency … is very, very common among Spanish-Indian and Mexican families ...14 KB (2,037 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- changes in point of view, the florid language, and the atmosphere of the ... German, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Finnish, and Spanish. ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 18:21, 12 February 2024
- refer to various types of crustaceans and insects. Spanish has mostly preserved the original Latin usage, since the cognate term langosta can be used ...14 KB (2,045 words) - 07:50, 9 March 2023
- Saint Francis Xavier (Basque: San Frantzisko Xabierkoa; Spanish: San ... Spain), where Basque was the native language. He was the third and youngest ...15 KB (2,402 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- plant arrived in Ireland through trade with the Spanish. ... port in case they were needed to fight the Spanish Armada. It was not until ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 22:28, 3 May 2023
- closest to Argentina. It shares a common language and many social customs ... quot; comes from Guaraní the language, meaning "river of ...30 KB (4,199 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- liturgical prayers of both Babylonian and Spanish origin were also uncovered ... Many of the geniza documents were written in the Arabic language using ...14 KB (2,072 words) - 18:19, 25 November 2023
- word has a history of ethnocentrism, the Spanish, Portuguese, and French ... The word miscegenation quickly entered the common language of the ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- | language = Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish | registration = Optional ...18 KB (2,536 words) - 16:33, 8 March 2023
- Day. However, though he claimed it as a Spanish territory, Columbus never ... their control of the salt trade, the Spanish now found St. Martin more ...23 KB (3,300 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- The Paraná River (Río Paraná in Spanish, Rio Paraná in Portuguese ... of the Waters" (from the Guaraní language) was Sebastian Cabot in 1526. ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 11:25, 11 March 2023
- Luisa oversaw military victories over the Spanish at Ameixial (June 8, 1663 ... war against Spain, which led, in 1668, to Spanish recognition of Portugal ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 22:00, 23 November 2020
- Islands, Spain, residing there with his Spanish wife, journalist Pilar del ... wrote in El Pais, the international Spanish-language paper of record, that ...13 KB (1,795 words) - 07:37, 27 February 2023
- The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for "rogue ... It would see a revival in Spain during the Spanish Golden Age in 1554. Early ...30 KB (4,326 words) - 20:12, 13 April 2024
- Casablanca (Spanish for "whitehouse"; Amazigh: Anfa; Standard ... Between 1580 and 1640, the city was under Spanish rule, to be later transferred ...20 KB (2,766 words) - 14:16, 29 November 2023
- The islands were named by the Spanish Francisco Eliza who explored ... was given to the San Juan Islands by the Spanish explorer Francisco de Eliza ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 03:09, 23 December 2022
- Catacomba in Italian, catacumba in Spanish, and catacombe in French ... * Allegedly Velasquez, Spanish painter, although his grave is officially ...16 KB (2,439 words) - 14:27, 29 November 2023
- The Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos may have passed by one ... The Spanish claimed Palau as part of the Spanish East Indies, and ...19 KB (2,897 words) - 10:59, 11 March 2023
- city. Official languages are Catalan, Spanish, and Aranese. Franco's loyalist forces during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) ...38 KB (5,664 words) - 19:12, 29 November 2023
- of the trees" in the Maya-Toltec language. Guatemala City is located ... region for nearly 2,000 years before the Spanish arrived in the early sixteenth ...18 KB (2,600 words) - 03:27, 5 March 2023
- Santeria (Santería in Spanish, meaning "Way of the Saints" ... In the early eighteenth century the Spanish Catholic church allowed ...19 KB (3,085 words) - 03:21, 23 December 2022
- Armadillo is Spanish for "little armored one," referring to their outer skin that looks like armor. ==Description== Armadillos are short ...11 KB (1,442 words) - 03:47, 15 August 2023
- Pedro de Heredia, it was a center of early Spanish settlement in the Americas ... The city's history includes its role as a center for the Spanish ...27 KB (3,998 words) - 00:39, 29 November 2023
- a cycle of religious ceremonies. When the Spanish tried to force Christianity ... In the year 1540, the Spanish inquisitor Coronado mounted an expedition ...33 KB (5,396 words) - 13:43, 2 February 2024
- The Spanish Viceroy of Peru had La Paz founded in 1548, in an area ... part of their huge empire until the Spanish conquest in 1538. The Incas ...25 KB (3,650 words) - 05:31, 4 March 2023
- the study of the ancient Hebrew language in which the Tanakh is written ... to develop the study of the Hebrew language. He also launched a vigorous ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- tribes are classified into the Yuman language family, which may form part ... and warlike in character. When the Spanish explorers and missionaries ...21 KB (3,010 words) - 10:25, 7 June 2023
- and named it La Isla Española, "The Spanish Island," which was ... After 25 years of Spanish occupation, the Taino population had shrunk ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 21:45, 31 January 2024
- she had mastered French, Latin, Greek, Spanish and Italian in addition ... on the throne, possibly with French or Spanish help. The major plot for ...19 KB (3,103 words) - 16:03, 7 November 2022
- The Republic of Bolivia (or Bulibiya in the Quechua language; Wuliwya ... Bolivia's mines. It is said that the Spanish extracted enough silver ...29 KB (4,244 words) - 23:38, 20 March 2024
- Commedia dell'arte appeal to the masses, without regard for language ... to all social classes, removing language as a barrier through the ...16 KB (2,341 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- its fantastic imagery and surreal use of language, forming a critical link ... for the first time. His experiences of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath ...16 KB (2,513 words) - 06:10, 18 November 2022
- lead the Canadian Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. In 1938, Bethune ... When the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, a spokesman from the Committee ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 02:42, 16 November 2022
- Politically, the Spanish Pyrenees are part of the following provinces ... portion of the mountain range between the Spanish Pyrenees and French Pyrenees. ...23 KB (3,535 words) - 14:45, 2 July 2022
- River. Despite this period in which their language and culture was suppressed ... First contact was with Spanish explorers in the sixteenth century ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 10:30, 7 June 2023
- A dictionary is basically a list words in a specific language, with ... a valuable source of information about a language, allowing members of the ...22 KB (3,268 words) - 14:12, 29 January 2024
- were later replaced or absorbed by Berber-language speaking populations that ... the Western Sahara and declared it to be a Spanish protectorate. It conducted ...31 KB (4,505 words) - 17:20, 4 May 2023
- , Kampupot, Melati (Malay and Indonesian Language), Sampaguita (Tagalog), ... *Jasminum grandiflorum – Spanish jasmine *Jasminum guangxiense ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 10:00, 1 April 2024
- Anthony Cary, Fifth Viscount Falkland. The Spanish name for the islands, "Islas ... Islanders often consider the use of Spanish names is considered offensive ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- Mountains is one of rapid change. The Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez ... Mountain men, primarily French, Spanish, and British, roamed the Rocky ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- Isaac Laquedem, Juan Espera a Dios (Spanish: "John [who] waits ... the French, has followed the Romance. The Spanish name is Juan [el que] Espera ...18 KB (2,872 words) - 22:50, 3 May 2023
- | language = English | series = The Federalist ... in proximity with the British Empire, the Spanish Empire, and the Indigenous ...17 KB (2,445 words) - 01:54, 26 March 2024
- became the southernmost province in the Spanish territory of New Spain. ... the population (the vast majority being of Spanish decent). Another one percent ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- heritage, born of a mixture of traditional Spanish culture with the native ... silver as did many of its neighbors, the Spanish passed through it on their ...27 KB (3,892 words) - 11:24, 11 March 2023
- tin-glazed earthenwares replaced the Spanish ware, beginning in the fourteenth ... This type of Spanish pottery owed much to its Moorish inheritance. ...10 KB (1,425 words) - 00:28, 25 March 2024
- Quito, City of Light: Art and Culture Spanish language tourism site. ... Retrieved November 10, 2007. Spanish language. * Encyclopædia Britannica ...31 KB (4,586 words) - 00:07, 15 April 2023
- other institutions are named for him. The Spanish rendering of his name, San ... The Spanish form, San Jose, is the most common place name in the world ...18 KB (2,901 words) - 07:38, 27 February 2023
- themselves attracted the hostility of the Spanish authorities. He also worked ... (historically, any Mexican of unmixed Spanish ancestry). Growing up in ...16 KB (2,562 words) - 17:46, 9 November 2022
- in Haitian Voodoo, derived from the language of the African slaves who ... country dance, French contredanse, and Spanish contradanza, but it used ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- concepts and expressing them with language. Theories of concepts are ... of symbolic thought (in particular, language) is a prerequisite for conceptual ...20 KB (3,052 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (May 1, 1852 – October 17, 1934) was a Spanish ... he graduated in 1873. Drafted into the Spanish army, he became a military ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 03:22, 23 December 2022
- Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded the city in 1535, as ... through the city. Some speculate that the Spanish created the word Lima in ...28 KB (4,030 words) - 08:43, 8 March 2023
- Easter Island, known in the native language as "Rapa Nui" ("Big Rapa") or "Isla de Pascua" in Spanish, is an island ...24 KB (3,502 words) - 17:39, 12 February 2024
- and Central America (Herbst 2001). The Spanish conquistadors found them ... The Aztecs relied on the turkey (Mexican Spanish guajolote, from Nahuatl ...15 KB (2,323 words) - 18:52, 6 November 2022
- It is in principle the representation of language, rather than images of thought ... beyond those carried out by spoken language. First invented by the early ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- daily in Italian, and weekly in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and ... The Vatican has no set official language, it can be changed at any ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- Altamira (Spanish for “high view”) is a cave in Spain famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock ...10 KB (1,634 words) - 08:36, 23 July 2023
- flour, a staple of the race. Their language is a member of the Maipurean ... by European diseases and overwork by their Spanish overlords who treated them ...23 KB (3,719 words) - 18:05, 20 January 2024
- The word salsa means sauce in the Spanish language and carries connotations ... Cuban province of Oriente, combining both Spanish and African themes. Like ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 01:54, 23 December 2022
- The first Europeans to arrive on the islands were the Spanish under ... The first Europeans to arrive at the islands were the Spanish under ...25 KB (3,664 words) - 00:45, 23 December 2022
- Marcos de Niza, a Spanish Franciscan, explored the area in 1539. The ... The majority of Arizona residents speak only English at home. Spanish ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- Bogota is a flavorful mix of its Spanish, English and the indigenous ... Before the arrival of the Spanish, the area near present day Bogotá ...33 KB (4,818 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the twentieth ... to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War against Francisco ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 10:53, 13 December 2023
- === Spanish exploration and settlement === The first Europeans to see Big Sur were Spanish mariners led by Juan ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 03:49, 1 October 2023
- control of the island, though by 1640 the Spanish began settling there. Spain ... It was not settled until 1527, when Spanish settlers began to raise ...29 KB (4,221 words) - 04:34, 11 March 2023
- church party, in the same manner as the Spanish Habsburg standard. ... poised to court Catholic (specifically, Spanish and Imperial) powers, a ...11 KB (1,689 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- disrupted trade between Antwerp and the Spanish port of Bilbao. On November ... Provinces in the Low Countries against the Spanish (Habsburg) Empire. In 1585 ...22 KB (3,301 words) - 05:47, 11 August 2023
- Guam's native plants and animals. The Spanish introduced pigs, dogs, chickens ... de Legazpi claimed Guam for Spain in 1565. Spanish colonization commenced in ...22 KB (3,229 words) - 03:09, 26 February 2023
- Empire, the French, Austrians, and Spanish, and others. The city was ... ===French, Austrian and Spanish domination=== The French king Louis ...27 KB (3,967 words) - 10:58, 10 March 2023
- an admixture of eighteenth-century French, Spanish, and African cultures. Before ... to visit Louisiana came in 1528, when a Spanish expedition located the mouth ...32 KB (4,608 words) - 04:12, 4 November 2022
- The name alligator is an anglicized form of the Spanish el lagarto ("the lizard"), the name by which early Spanish explorers and settlers ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 18:37, 21 July 2023
- examples of essay-writing in the English language. The work begins innocuously ... I translated him into seventeenth century Spanish and it worked very well ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate ... The Spanish language is predominant, while (pidgin) English is spoken ...34 KB (4,896 words) - 12:36, 2 February 2024
- had been among the original recipients of Spanish land grants in the eighteenth ... act they developed with the help of Spanish clown, Pepito Pérez, and ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 09:56, 29 January 2024
- than 7,000 years ago. In the modern era, Spanish settlement began in 1515 ... Shortly thereafter, in 1510, the first Spanish colonists arrived from Hispaniola ...29 KB (4,178 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- making Valens the father of the Spanish language rock and roll movement. ... Valens was a pioneer of Chicano rock and Spanish language rock and ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 01:42, 15 December 2022
- sea otters for valuable pelts caused the Spanish to send a ship, the Santiago ... sound near Yuquot. This was to be the only Spanish settlement in what would ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 14:19, 3 May 2023
- Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire"), is an archipelago ... a Portuguese sailor in service to the Spanish King, became the first European ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 23:33, 30 April 2023
- with the stone. The English word azure, the Spanish and Portuguese azul, and the Italian azzurro are cognates. == Occurrence == Lapis lazuli usually ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 October 2022
- Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition [http://dictionary ... can be exchanged for another foreign language (such as Spanish, Italian ...14 KB (2,013 words) - 07:46, 10 January 2024
- A word is a basic element of language that carries an objective or ... a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of language that has a meaning, even ...33 KB (4,842 words) - 20:11, 25 February 2023
- Scalieri to Mozart. Metastasio's language is beautiful and effortless; ... into virtually every major European language—and his influence on 18th ...15 KB (2,423 words) - 05:29, 24 November 2022
- | language = English | series = The Federalist ... war, the British Empire and the Spanish Empire still held colonial ...15 KB (2,183 words) - 01:54, 26 March 2024
- novel, the greatest novel in the Spanish language, and one of the most ... working as a purchasing agent for the Spanish Armada, and as a tax collector ...33 KB (5,296 words) - 17:47, 9 November 2022
- the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas ... period until the arrival of the Spanish in the 1520s. At its peak ...31 KB (4,849 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- world's most widely read Spanish-language author." ... literature. Fluent in English as a second language, Allende was granted United ...17 KB (2,523 words) - 19:41, 7 February 2023
- the Carrao. Curún in indigenous Pemón language means "thunder." ... merú. In the indigenous Pemón language Kerepakupai-merú means ...8 KB (1,292 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- speak a Southern Athabaskan (Apachean) language, and are related linguistically ... involved in trade relationships with the Spanish and European settlers and ...37 KB (5,440 words) - 05:56, 11 August 2023
- In April 1996, the BBC World Service Saudi-based Arabic language TV ... In 2003, it hired its first English-language journalist, Afshin Rattansi ...22 KB (3,270 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- in 1566, by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. A Spanish mission was constructed ... Bahamas, and Cuba; many of whom spoke Spanish or Haitian Creole. ...30 KB (4,379 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- system. The conquest changed the English language and culture, and set the ... and added features from their own Norse language, transforming it into the ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- and in 1868 began working for the German language newspaper the Westliche ... in the United States' entry into the Spanish-American War after both ...20 KB (2,932 words) - 04:55, 7 May 2024
- the New World, while markets in the former Spanish colonies that had recently ... to argue for forcefully removing the Spanish from Cuba. In 1898, following ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- for foreign citizens in Beijing. The Spanish, Belgian, and German legations ... U.S. conquest of the islands during the Spanish American War (1898) and ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
- Romance word casta (seen in Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian), which (in ... include colonial Latin America under Spanish and Portuguese rule, Japan ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 14:24, 29 November 2023
- Antoinette de Louppes, came from a wealthy Spanish Jewish family, but was herself ... there was for Latin to become his first language. His intellectual education ...14 KB (2,276 words) - 17:11, 9 November 2022
- of Provence, and Provence was ruled by the Spanish from Catalonia for more ... area was at its height. The Provençal language, (see langue d'oc and ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 08:21, 2 December 2022
- Latin, instead focusing on English, French, Spanish, chemistry, economics, and so forth. The parallel course did not take hold, however, until the ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 06:57, 25 July 2023
- range of experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War ... perfectly the new pace of life with his language. He catalogued America& ...19 KB (2,931 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- years earlier when war broke out in the Spanish peninsula, and had moved ... who translated the Arabic orally into Spanish, and Dominicus Gundissalinus ...24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- Navajo and began a lifelong love of their language and culture. He wrote two ... when he lived among them, learning their language and customs. From the summer ...10 KB (1,350 words) - 22:13, 7 January 2024
- and subjugation. It was discovered by Spanish explorers in the fifteenth ... wiped out by disease or removed by the Spanish. Later, members of other ...40 KB (5,623 words) - 17:42, 28 March 2024
- on." The word came into the English language as epigraph, which was used ... same passage of writing in two Egyptian language scripts and in classical ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- seaways. He and his brothers often raided Spanish ships and so are commonly ... A series of smaller victories followed over French and Spanish adversaries ...38 KB (6,070 words) - 17:40, 30 January 2022
- After discovering the New World, the Spanish mounted several peaceful ... Hernándo Cortés, who had led the Spanish conquest of Mexico, granted ...37 KB (5,339 words) - 23:54, 8 March 2024
- . Santa Fe (literally "holy faith" in Spanish) had a population ... Fe is a unique blend of Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-Saxon ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 01:21, 21 April 2023
- He presided over the government of the Spanish State as the "the Leader ... Franco's rule arguably retarded not only Spanish democracy but ...40 KB (6,158 words) - 04:53, 9 April 2024
- partner in the Iberian Union. Although the Spanish and Portuguese empires were ... empire. The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) is the ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- (or the Malay Archipelago) (Indonesian language: Nusantara). ... with the arrival of the Portuguese and Spanish in Moluccas and the Philippines ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- José Ortega y Gasset (May 9, 1883 - October 18, 1955) was a Spanish ... and going into voluntary exile during the Spanish Civil War rather than align ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 01:34, 8 September 2022
- . They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic ... a syllable, according to what is termed a language's phonotactics. ...43 KB (6,361 words) - 16:51, 25 February 2023
- Science, Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Chinese Language, Classics, Computer Science, Economics, English, French, German, History, Mathematics, Mathematics ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- Rhapsodie espagnole, contain significant Spanish musical properties. This ... or minor for his predominant harmonic language, he preferred modes with ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 00:46, 9 November 2022
- studying philosophy and the psychology of language. Following his entrance ... the Oppressed, which was also published in Spanish and English in 1970. Because ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 01:43, 23 November 2022
- south. Panama was the home to the first Spanish colony on the Pacific Ocean ... The culture, customs, and language of Panamanians are predominantly ...42 KB (6,441 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana) is a Latin ... After 25 years of Spanish occupation, the Taino population had shrunk ...37 KB (5,424 words) - 09:27, 15 January 2023
- The third voyage of Vespucci was led by Spanish explorer Gonoçalo Coelho in 1501–1502 in the service of Portugal, with Vespucci second in ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- that the Aztecs had this misapprehension about Spanish cavalrymen.Stuart Chase, “The Six Hundred,” in Mexico: A Study of Two Americas, chap. 4 ...9 KB (1,330 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- (1848), based on Russian folk tunes, and two Spanish works, A Night in Madrid (1848, 1851) and Jota Aragonesa (1845). Glinka also composed many ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 17:51, 9 November 2022
- In 1808, after joining the Spanish forces to fight against the French ... Mendoza to Chile, and prevailed over the Spanish forces after the Battle ...40 KB (6,434 words) - 05:43, 10 May 2024
- beauty. Translated into Italian, French, Spanish, and English, it became ... had been translated into Italian, French, Spanish, and English. It covered ...24 KB (3,831 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- known as araras in Portuguese and guacamayos in Spanish. ... ==Speech and language learning== As with many species of parrots, macaws ...13 KB (1,794 words) - 10:43, 9 March 2023
- The English word jade is derived from the Spanish term piedra de ijada ... Nephrite jade in New Zealand, known as pounamu in the Māori language ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 08:35, 18 March 2024
- contributed to the rise of the Spanish Empire. The rise and fall ... The Rio de la Plata was named after silver, after the Spanish word ...20 KB (2,849 words) - 22:08, 29 January 2023
- good" or "noble" in their language. A system of cacicazgos ... the next quarter-century. In response, the Spanish began to import African ...32 KB (4,700 words) - 19:05, 27 April 2024
- Early Spanish or French explorers gave the state its name, which is ... The first European to reach Arkansas was the Spanish explorer Hernando ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- His prose works, written in the Hebrew language, made accessible to the ... and some were later translated into Latin, Spanish, French, English and German ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- century representing a little bird (pajarita in Spanish or cocotte in French) was one of the only models developed outside of Japan. ...17 KB (2,643 words) - 01:24, 18 November 2022
- by the European colonists. Variously under Spanish and British rule, it gained ... During its first 200 years under British rule, post Spanish rule, ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 01:31, 8 February 2023
- twice on British television. In January, Spanish actress Yolanda Vasquez ... as having possessed the stereotypical Spanish traits of having dark hair ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 16:17, 3 December 2023
- ** The "Spanish flu," 1918–1919. First identified early ... Spaniards and the Muslims in Granada, the Spanish lost 3,000 to war casualties ...22 KB (3,244 words) - 14:30, 11 February 2022
- says that the name Andes derived from the Spanish word "anden" which ... Chilean and Peruvian cordilleras (from the Spanish word meaning "rope ...15 KB (2,126 words) - 19:59, 26 July 2023
- viewed and a new focus on the nature of language."Sharon Keefe Ugalde ... novel revolves around a central theme of language and the power inherent in ...35 KB (5,274 words) - 15:31, 5 July 2023
- on one's resume and for foreign language improvement. Different kinds ... experience and learn an additional language. The meaning of such internships ...23 KB (3,363 words) - 15:55, 11 August 2023
- arrived in 1565 and formed the first Spanish settlements, paving the ... In the next 333 years, the Spanish military fought off local indigenous ...42 KB (6,083 words) - 15:26, 27 March 2024
- When the Spanish landed in 1531, the Inca empire extended over a vast ... initially had jurisdiction over all of the Spanish colonies in South America ...46 KB (6,833 words) - 23:21, 26 August 2023
- "Citadel" was given to it by the Spanish, who mistakenly believed ... was created. Teotihuacán astonished the Spanish conquistadores during the ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 03:47, 30 April 2023
- Flamenco is a Spanish musical genre. Flamenco embodies a complex musical ... extended to other areas, other local Spanish musical traditions (i.e ...47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
- Pablo Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter ... quot;piz," a shortening of lapiz, the Spanish word for pencil. ...22 KB (3,461 words) - 10:56, 11 March 2023
- " derived from the name the Spanish gave them, Caribal. ... John. He gave the islands their original Spanish names (Santa Cruz, San Tomas ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 01:22, 3 May 2023
- was made in 1552 by Saint Francis Xavier, Spanish priest and missionary and ... Portuguese holding Goa and Malacca and the Spanish holding Manila. The seas ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- Islamic, Hohenstaufen, Catalan, Spanish—but also experiencing periods ... accounts report that the Greek language was widely spoken on the ...33 KB (4,988 words) - 11:46, 1 February 2024
- would be carried on by latter generations of Spanish-language poets such as Pablo Neruda and Victor Domingo Silva. In the aftermath of World War II, many ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 14:59, 8 October 2022
- poetic movement that dominated Spanish language poetry from the 1880s until the First World War. Such was the dominance of Modernismo in Spanish ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 00:35, 27 February 2023
- to another tradition, sixteenth century Spanish sailors named the port for ... Fair Winds") on February 2, 1536 by a Spanish expedition under Pedro de ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- as "Cuban oregano" (as well as "Spanish thyme," "Mexican thyme," or "Mexican mint"). It is a tender, fleshy ...11 KB (1,590 words) - 01:11, 18 November 2022
