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  • disagreement. One theory holds that the Portuguese, who arrived in the area ... many Indian cities. Madras derives from Portuguese name. ...
    44 KB (6,123 words) - 14:52, 5 December 2023
  • one third of Toronto residents speak a language other than English at home ... While English is the predominant language spoken by Torontonians, ...
    43 KB (6,252 words) - 23:37, 15 January 2024
  • to Spain, whereas Madeira to the north is Portuguese. The coastal area ... Successful Portuguese efforts to control the Atlantic coast in the ...
    40 KB (5,727 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
  • European explorers—first the Portuguese in search of the Spice Islands ... English has become the common language. It is taught in schools and ...
    23 KB (3,329 words) - 01:56, 26 March 2024
  • 2000 carts entered the city each week. Portuguese ships brought pepper and ... Dutch is an official language of Belgium, spoken by 60 percent of ...
    22 KB (3,301 words) - 05:47, 11 August 2023
  • , the first web-based newspaper in the Russian language, with versions in English, Italian, and Portuguese also available. The new Pravda newspaper ...
    17 KB (2,565 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
  • "snail," escargot on an English-language menu is generally reserved ... they are called "caracóis" (Portuguese for "snails" ...
    16 KB (2,467 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
  • Portuguese Conquistadors seized many Caribs on Barbados and used them ... The country's official language is British English, the local ...
    20 KB (2,790 words) - 23:06, 20 November 2023
  • from Jewish Conversos (Spanish or Portuguese Jews who converted to Christianity) of the Monzón area. In 1524, his father Antonio Serveto (alias ...
    19 KB (2,991 words) - 17:09, 9 November 2022
  • A Portuguese trading post was established in 1487, but the town declined from the sixteenth century. The old town, though in ruins, is still ...
    17 KB (2,565 words) - 03:59, 10 June 2024
  • name Sierra Leone was adapted from the Portuguese name for the country: Serra ... by successive waves of invaders; but the language pattern suggests that the ...
    38 KB (5,601 words) - 20:08, 21 April 2023
  • Africa, FRELIMO when it sought to overthrow Portuguese rule in Mozambique, and ZANLA (and Robert Mugabe) in its struggle to unseat the white regime ...
    16 KB (2,366 words) - 09:54, 12 May 2024
  • origin, but some are of Afrikaaner, Portuguese, or Dutch origin. The white ... English is the official language, though only two percent consider ...
    26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
  • Portuguese seaman Juan Díaz de Solís, navigating in the name of ... Other European origins include German, Portuguese, Polish, Irish, ...
    30 KB (4,453 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
  • (born João Rodrigues da Silva), a lawyer of Portuguese Jewish descent (son of Diogo da Silva and wife Maria Rodrigues, Portuguese Jews), and Jerónima ...
    37 KB (5,925 words) - 14:27, 29 January 2024
  • a matchlock gun introduced by the Portuguese in 1543 was quickly assimilated ... The arquebus, a matchlock gun, was introduced by the Portuguese via ...
    49 KB (7,556 words) - 03:06, 23 December 2022
  • The Portuguese term Praxe (from the Greek praxis) describes the whole of student traditions in universities or, more often, to the initiation ...
    40 KB (5,725 words) - 16:55, 30 June 2022
  • such as makizushi) in the Japanese language refers to the rice, not ... , namanari was invented. A 1603 Japanese-Portuguese dictionary has an entry ...
    23 KB (3,535 words) - 00:29, 27 February 2023
  • Louvain, 1516). The book is narrated by a Portuguese traveler named Raphael Hythlodaeus, who criticizes the laws and customs of European states while ...
    19 KB (2,908 words) - 14:05, 3 May 2023
  • Andorrans are a minority in their own country; Spaniards, Portuguese ... to a minor extent, are the Occitan language (the Gascon and Languedocien ...
    23 KB (3,535 words) - 14:45, 2 July 2022

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