The settlements of La Yaguana, and Bayaja, on the west and north coasts respectively of modern day Haiti were burned, as were the settlements of Monte Cristi and Puerto Plata on the north coast and San Juan de la Maguana in the south western area of the modern day Dominican Republic.

Rice is grown around Monte Cristi & San Francisco de Macoris.

Puccini completed the score of La rondine, to a libretto by Giuseppe Adami in 1916 after two years of work, and it was premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917.

Although generally not as high as the mountains near the Guatemalan border, the eastern ranges possess some high peaks, such as the Montaña de la Flor at 2, 300 meters, El Boquerón ( Monte El Boquerón ) at 2, 485 meters, and Pico Bonito at 2, 435 meters.

* 1603 – Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer ( b. 1521 )

The famous Casino of Monte Carlo opened in 1863, organized by the Societé des Bains de Mer (" Sea-bathing Society "), which also ran the " Hotel de Paris "; taxes paid by the S. B. M.

The Montoneros ' leadership was keen to learn from the ERP's Compañía de Monte Ramón Rosa Jiménez operating in the Andean province of Tucumán and in 1975 sent " observers " to spend a few months with the ERP platoons operating against the 5th Infantry Brigade, then consisting of the 19th, 20th and 29th Mountain Infantry Regiments.

During February 1976, the Montoneros sent assistance to the hard-pressed Compañía de Monte Ramón Rosa Jiménez fighting in Tucumán province, in the form of a company of their elite " Jungle Troops ", while the ERP backed them up with a company of their own guerrillas from Cordoba.

The first Monte de Piedad organization in Spain was founded in Madrid, and from there the idea was transferred to New Spain by Pedro Romero de Terreros, the Count of Santa Maria de Regla and Knight of Calatrava.

The Nacional Monte de Piedad is a charitable institution and pawn shop whose main office is located just off the Zocalo, or main plaza of Mexico City.

The first possible historical reference to the vase is in a 1601 letter from the French scholar Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc to the painter Peter Paul Rubens, where it is recorded as in the collection of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte in Italy.

Some of Byrd's most popular motets were actually written as a type of correspondence to a friend and fellow composer, Philippe de Monte.

His writings were published under the toponym Joannes de Monte Regio.

The history of the manuscript begins 1587 when the censor Andrea de Monte ( d. 1587 ) bequeathed it to Ugo Boncompagni — which presents an oddity, since Boncompagni, better known as Pope Gregory XIII, died in 1585.

" Before this de Monte had censored it by deleting most references to idolatry.

de: Schlacht um Monte Cassino

gl: Batalla de Monte Cassino

pt: Batalha de Monte Cassino

ro: Bătălia de la Monte Cassino

* January 26 – Pierre de Monte, 50th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller ( b. 1499 )

* June 25 – June 27 – Third Carlist War: Battle of Monte Muro: Carlist forces entrenched around Abárzuza, on the approach to Estella in Navarre, repel an attack by Isabelino / Liberal ( supporters of Queen Isabella II ) troops led by General Manuel Gutiérrez de la Concha, Marqués del Duero, who is killed on the third day of fighting.

* July 4 – Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer ( b. 1521 )

* He married 1908, Cleope Teresa Magliano ( 1888 – 1926 ), a dancer with the Ballet Opera of Monte Carlo.

Their one monastery was on the top of Monte Varese, near Lago Maggiore, on the spot where their foundress, the Blessed Catarina Morigia ( or Catherine of Palanza ), had first led a solitary life.

* Monte Hacho ( Abila Mons ), the southern of the Pillars of Hercules on the African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta

Benedict founded twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, Italy ( about to the east of Rome ), before moving to Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy.

Cão then coasted down along the present Angola ( Portuguese West Africa ), and erected a second pillar, probably marking the termination of this voyage, at Cape Santa Maria ( the Monte Negro of these first visitors ).

In Italy dolmens can be found in Apulia, Sardinia and in Sicily where they are located in Mura Pregne ( Palermo ), Sciacca ( Agrigento ), Monte Bubbonia ( Caltanissetta ), Butera ( Caltanissetta ), Cava Lazzaro ( Siracusa ), Cava dei Servi ( Ragusa ), Avola ( Siracusa ).

The Gambler's fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy ( because its most famous example happened in a Monte Carlo Casino in 1913 ), and also referred to as the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the belief that if deviations from expected behaviour are observed in repeated independent trials of some random process, future deviations in the opposite direction are then more likely.

The most famous example happened in a Monte Carlo Casino in the summer of 1913, when the ball fell in black 26 times in a row, an extremely uncommon occurrence ( but not more nor less common than any of the other 67, 108, 863 sequences of 26 red or black, neglecting the 0 slot on the wheel ), and gamblers lost millions of francs betting against black after the black streak happened.

Worldwide-known mountains in Italy are Matterhorn ( Cervino ), Monte Rosa, Gran Paradiso in the West Alps, and Bernina, Stelvio and Dolomites along the eastern side of the Alps.

* MM ( album ), an album by Marisa Monte

35 million euros between 1997 and 2011 ), despite stiff competition from other film locations in Eastern Europe and North Africa, with the Malta Film Commission providing support services to foreign film companies for the production of feature cinema ( Gladiator, Troy, Munich and Count of Monte Cristo ' World War Z, amongst others, were shot in Malta over the last few years ), commercials and television series.

The precise dating of the Rule of the Master is problematic ; but it has been argued on internal grounds that it antedates the so-called Rule of Saint Benedict created by Benedict of Nursia for his monastery in Monte Cassino, Italy ( c. 529 ), and the other Benedictine monasteries he himself had founded ( cf.

This area is characterised by the many picturesque hilltop villages ( Pitigliano, Roccastrada, Roccatederighi, Sassofortino, Monte Massi, Massa Marittima, Cinigiano, Campagnatico, Pari ), which remind of the hilltop towns of the Siena area.

Paul the Deacon ( c. 720s – 13 April probably 799 ), also known as Paulus Diaconus, Warnefred, Barnefridus and Cassinensis, ( i. e. " of Monte Cassino "), was a Benedictine monk and historian of the Lombards.

His family worked as sharecroppers as did most of the people of Sotto il Monte – a striking contrast to that of his predecessor, Eugenio Pacelli ( Pope Pius XII ), who came from an ancient aristocratic family, long connected to the Papacy.

Blessed Pope Victor III ( c. 1026 – 16 September 1087 ), born Daufer ( Dauphar ), Latinised Dauferius, was Pope as the successor of Pope Gregory VII from 24 May 1086, yet his pontificate is far less impressive in history than his time as Desiderius, the great Abbot of Monte Cassino.

Pope Julius III ( 10 September 1487 – 23 March 1555 ), born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, was Pope from 7 February 1550 to 1555.

Monte Córdova is a civil parish in Portuguese municipality of Santo Tirso, located 4 kilometres east of the municipal seat.

The civil parish of Monte Córdova is situated 30 kilometres from Porto, and accessible through the EN105 motorway to many of the local communities, including Braga, Famalicão and Guimarães.

* Monte ( Fafe ), a civil parish in the municipality of Fafe

* Monte ( Funchal ), a civil parish in the municipality of Funchal

* Monte ( Murtosa ), a civil parish in the municipality of Murtosa

It counts 7 little civil parishes ( frazioni ): Canale, Colli, Ferrarisi, Monte, Piana, Puglia and Staglio.

The civil parish's name was a consequence of the older parish of Santa Luzia, but created from the dissection of lands in Sé and Nossa Senhora do Monte.

Monte () is a civil parish in the municipality and a suburb of Funchal in the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira.

The Castro of Monte Valinhas, alternately the Castro of São João de Valinhas, is an archaeological site in Portugal, in the civil parish of Santa Eulália, in the municipality of Arouca, notable for the discovery of important traces of human remains from the last 2000 years.

Woodlands cover the planar civil parishes of Vila Real de Santo António and Monte Gordo, while in Vila Nova de Cacela, barren lands and schist hills are more predominant.