The first European settlers to the area of Daphne came in 1540 during the period of Spanish Exploration.

Similar Spanish fortifications of the 17th-18th centuries can be seen in Cuba, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Veracruz and Acapulco, Mexico, Portobelo and Panama City, Panamá, and many other Latin American locations which were governed as part of the Spanish Empire during the Age of Exploration.

Vizcaíno and Spanish Exploration in the Pacific Ocean, 1580-1630.

Repsol brings together the companies in which the Spanish government had a majority ownership in the areas of Exploration and Production ( formerly Hispanoil ) and Production, Refining ( formerly ENPETROL ), Chemical and Liquefied Natural Gas ( LNG ), Butane ( former Butano SA ), CAMPSA and Petronor.

After the arrest of a Spanish fishing vessel by the Royal Gibraltar Police in 1998, the problem largely subsided, although the operation of Odyssey Marine Exploration in the area is currently being contested in the Florida Court.

* Spanish Exploration: Hezeta ( Heceta ) and Bodega y Quadra Expedition of 1775 to Formally Claim the Pacific Northwest for Spain

* HistoryLink: Spanish Exploration ( 1775 ), with maps and references.

* HistoryLink: Spanish Exploration ( 1779 )

It was named Kahlúa, meaning " House of the Acolhua people " in the Veracruz Nahuatl language spoken before the Spanish Conquest.

It was abandoned just over 100 years later, in 1572, as a belated result of the Spanish Conquest.

* Spanish Conquest of Mexico

Since the Spanish Conquest, Mexico has fused its long-established native civilizations with European culture.

Roaming armies killed a tenth of the nation's population, but the Revolution freed the peons from the system of large haciendas that had originated with the Spanish Conquest.

Accounts written by the Spanish at time of their conquest ( the conquistadores ) and by indigenous chroniclers of the post-conquest period constitute the principal source of information regarding Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest.

In English the phrase first appeared in the 17th century in John Dryden's heroic play, The Conquest of Granada ( 1672 ), where it was used by a Christian prince disguised as a Spanish Muslim to refer to himself, but it later became identified with the idealized picture of " nature's gentleman ", which was an aspect of 18th-century sentimentalism.

Spanish Conquest of Mexico

The Valley of Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico | Spanish Conquest.

Accounts by the Tlaxcaltecas, the primary enemy of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish Conquest, show that at least some of them considered it an honor to be sacrificed.

* Pedro de Candia, ( 1485 – 1542 ) author and travel writer, recorded the Spanish Conquest of the Americas

Following the Spanish Conquest in 1519 – 21 a temple of the mother-goddess Tonantzin at Tepeyac outside Mexico City was destroyed and a chapel dedicated to the Virgin built on the site.

On the other hand, the contest between Charles and Suleiman for the mastery of the Mediterranean was decided in favour of the Sultan, in spite of Spanish victories such as the Conquest of Tunis in 1535.

* Spanish Conquest

It is unclear whether distilled drinks were produced in Mexico before the Spanish Conquest.

For this reason, the liquid is called the “ elixir of the gods .” However, it is not certain whether the native peoples of Mexico had any distilled liquors prior to the Spanish Conquest.

The various Feathered Serpent deities remained popular in Mesoamerican folk traditions after the Spanish Conquest but by the 20th century Q ' uq ' umatz appeared only rarely among the K ' iche '.

The temple of Q ' uq ' umatz must have been completely dismantled very soon after the Spanish Conquest since it is not mentioned by any of the Colonial era visitors, and early drawings of the site show only vegetation where the temple once stood.

Nonetheless, the only version of this document which has survived was transcribed well after the Spanish Conquest and may contain concepts introduced by European missionaries.

Xipe Totec was widely worshipped in central Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest, and was known throughout most of Mesoamerica.

The Spanish term norteamericano ( North American ), is frequently used to refer things and persons from the United States, but this term can also denote people and things from Canada, and the rest of North America.

With the 1994 passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the following words were used to label the United States Section of that organization: in French, étatsunien ; in Spanish, estadounidense.

They expanded under Spanish regency to encompass half of North America and half of South America.

The Spanish in Florida originally introduced sheep to the New World, but this development never quite reached the North, and there they were introduced by the Dutch and English.

John C. Cavadini has challenged this notion by attempting to take the Spanish Christology in its own Spanish / North African context in his important study, The Last Christology of the West: Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul, 785 – 820.

The majority of the population is French, but there are sizable groups of Italians, Spaniards ( Up to 20 % of the Bordeaux population claim some degree of Spanish heritage ), Portuguese, Turks, Germans and North Africans ..

These principles derive ultimately from Roman law, transmitted through Spanish and French law, as the state's current territory intersects the area of North America colonized by Spain and by France.

This suppression and the success of independence movements in the former Spanish colonies on the North American mainland led to a rise of Cuban nationalism, and a number of independence conspiracies took place during the 1820s and 1830s, but all failed.

The Government of Cuba maintains close relationships with Iran and North Korea, and has provided safe haven to members of ETA after an agreement with the Spanish government ( under Felipe González ), FARC, and the ELN.

By far, the best known representation is the animated Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius, whose popularity has spread the three-syllable Spanish pronunciation of the word coyote throughout English-speaking North America.

These works also left Europe and were imported to those parts of Latin America controlled by the Spanish and Portuguese empires and the parts of North America controlled by the British and French empires.

This occurred also along long stretches of the Spanish and Italian coasts, a relatively short distance across a calm sea from the pirates in their North African lairs.

Mistreatment of the indigenous population in Spanish Morocco led to an uprising and the loss of this North African possession except for the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in 1921.

Most of the expelled Spanish Jews moved to North Africa, Poland, to the Ottoman Empire and to Israel.

P. Erickson, MasterClasses in Spanish Piano Music, Hinshaw Music, Chapel Hill North Carolina, 1984.

The Monroe Doctrine at the time of its adoption thus pertained more to the Russians in North America than to the former Spanish colonies.

Treating Revelation in his cursory fashion, he made use of an excerpt from the commentary of the North African Tichonius, which is preserved as a sort of argument at the beginning of the more extended work of the Spanish presbyter Beatus of Liébana.

Jews, who had lived in Melilla for centuries, have been leaving the Spanish North African city in more recent years ( from 20 % of the population before World War II to less than 5 % today ).

As successful English settlement of North America began to take place in 1607 in the face of the hostile intentions of the powerful Spanish, and of the native populations, it became immediately necessary to raise militia amongst the settlers.

The Spanish reintroduction of the horse to North America in the 17th century and Native Americans ' learning to use them greatly altered the natives ' culture, including changing the way in which they hunted large game.

Pigs were brought to southeastern North America from Europe by Hernando de Soto and other early Spanish explorers.

On the northern side of the Strait are Spain and Gibraltar ( a British overseas territory in the Iberian Peninsula ), while on the southern side are Morocco and Ceuta ( a Spanish exclave in North Africa ).

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