The Spanish settled along the north coast of today's Colombia in the early 16th century, but their first permanent settlement, at Santa Marta, was not established until 1525.

A 22-foot bronze statue of Valderrama, created by Colombian artist Amilkar Ariza, was erected outside Estadio Eduardo Santos in Valderrama's birthplace of Santa Marta in 2006.

The capital of the Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, covering most of modern Central America, was moved here after a series of earthquakes — the Santa Marta earthquakes that started on July 29, 1773 — destroyed the old capital, Antigua Guatemala.

Beria's mother, Marta Ivanovna, was a deeply religious, church-going woman ( she spent so much time in church that she died there ); she was previously married and widowed before marrying Beria's father, Pavel Khukhaevich Beria, a landowner from Abkhazia, Georgia.

5 April ), she was originally named Marta Helena Skowrońska.

Marta was the daughter of Samuel Skowroński, later spelt Samuil Skavronsky, a Lithuanian peasant of Polish origin, a Roman Catholic, who in 1680 married Dorothea Hahn at Jekabpils in Latvia.

At the age of three Marta was taken by an aunt and sent to Marienburg ( the present-day Alūksne in Latvia, near the border with Estonia and Russia ) where she was raised by Johann Ernst Glück, a Lutheran pastor and educator who was the first to translate the Bible into Latvian.

There are unsubstantiated stories that Marta worked briefly in the laundry of the victorious regiment, and also that she was presented in her undergarments to Brigadier General Rudolph Felix Bauer, later the Governor of Estonia, to be his mistress.

It is clear that Menshikov and Marta formed a lifetime alliance, and it is possible that Menshikov, who was quite jealous of Peter's attentions and knew his tastes, wanted to procure a mistress on whom he could rely.

Despite having no clinical psychiatric experience and, indeed, little interest in psychiatry, in 1935 at the Hospital Santa Marta in Lisbon, he devised the surgery called prefrontal leucotomy which was carried out under his direction by the neurosurgeon Pedro Almeida Lima.

Twelve years later, in 1842, at the request of President José Antonio Páez, they were moved from Santa Marta to Caracas, where a monument was set up for his interment in the National Pantheon of Venezuela.

In the late pre-Columbian era, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta was home to the Tayrona people, whose language was closely related to the Chibcha language family.

Co-creator Marta Kauffman said that the last episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show was the " gold standard " and that it influenced the finale of Friends.

For example, Marta " Martika " Marrero's character was named " Gloria " while Jerry Sharell's character was named " Mickey " and Jennifer Love Hewitt's character was called " Robin.

Others who have seen success in the fields of music and acting include Marta " Martika " Marrero (" Toy Soldiers "), Mario Lopez (" Saved by The Bell " and " Dancing with the Stars "), Eric Balfour ( 24, Haven, Skyline ), Jennifer Love Hewitt, who was credited simply as " Love Hewitt ", ( Party of Five, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Ghost Whisperer ) and Ryan Lambert ( The Monster Squad, Elephone ).

The name of the airport was changed in 1981 by the military government for Omar Torrijos International Airport, in honor to the Panamanian leader who died in July 31, 1981, at the age of 52 in a plane crash in Cerro Marta, Coclesito in very bad conditions.

The name comes from Sacatepéquez, a city from November 21, 1542 until July 29, 1773 when it was destroyed by the Santa Marta earthquake.

He was survived by his wife Maria and daughter Marta.

The stork is considered a harbinger of spring and as evidence that Baba Marta is in a good mood and is about to retire.

Soult's movements became even clearer when his Chasseurs à cheval and hussars engaged Long's cavalry at Santa Marta — once again Long retreated in what Beresford considered to be unreasonable haste.

It is considered the oldest of the four " airs ", with roots in an ancient Indian dance of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

“ Situation outside Santa Marta City unquestionably very serious: outside zone is in revolt ; military who have orders " not to spare ammunition " have already killed and wounded about fifty strikers.

Their language, the Chibcha, was very similar to those peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta ( Kogui, Ijka, Wiwa, and Kankuamo ) and the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy ( U ' wa ).

In Bulgarian folklore the name Baba Marta ( in Bulgarian баба Марта meaning Grandma March ) is related to a grumpy old lady whose mood swings change very rapidly.

Before one of their very long transits, the computers of one of the high-tech project leaders, Marta Korolev, are hacked, and she is excluded from the automated bobbling.

Baba Marta is seen as an old lady who has very contrasting moods.

It appears that as a result, the first contacts with the Tairona were very violent and the Spanish suffered great losses, which resulted in a more diplomatic strategy from the first governor of Santa Marta Rodrigo de Bastidas.

In Marta y Maria ( 1883 ), a portrayal of the struggle between religious vocation and earthly passion, somewhat in the manner of Valera, Palacio Valdés achieved a very popular triumph which placed him in the first rank of contemporary Spanish novelists.

He lives in a beautiful house with an actress wife ( Adelaide ), a teenage stepdaughter ( Marta ), and a " mute " young son ( who is referred to as " Little Man ").

* Siren ( played by Marta DuBois ): She was once a beautiful woman, but her beauty became more important than her family.

Rainbows was established by Suzy Yehl Marta, after she was unable to find any resources to help her three young sons cope with her divorce.

The player takes on the role of Lieutenant Marta Louise Velasquez, a hot-tempered young pilot working for the Traffic Department in the city of Vulthaven, on the planet Seche, in the year 2192.

At Strasbourg in May, she reached another WTA quarter-final, with wins over Tamarine Tanasugarn and brilliant young French talent Tatiana Golovin, before losing in three sets to Marta Domachowska of Poland.

Marta returns home and advises her daughter that Moorhead feels the girl has talent and should write about what she knows best.

One of her more memorable roles came in 1968 when Craig appeared on Star Trek as Marta, a green-skinned Orion slave girl in the third season episode " Whom Gods Destroy " ( 1968 ).

As Orion ( Star Trek ) | Orion slave girl " Marta " in the 1968 Star Trek original series episode " Whom Gods Destroy ( Star Trek ) | Whom Gods Destroy ".

* 1st Division ( Santa Marta ) – Its jurisdiction covers the Northern Region of Colombia in which there are the departments of Cesar, La Guajira, Magdalena, Sucre, Bolívar and Atlántico.

In Bulgaria there is a tradition called Martenitsa, which sometimes involves tying a red and white string around the wrist to please Baba Marta in order for spring to come sooner.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized Hugo Chávez for various statements, including his January 2006 statement that “ he world is for all of us, then, but it so happens that a minority, the descendants of the same ones that crucified Christ, the descendants of the same ones that kicked Bolívar out of here and also crucified him in their own way over there in Santa Marta, in Colombia.

They arrived there, July 1514, and reached Santa Marta in Colombia.

Throughout the town there are sculptures in various styles: the set of sculptures in El Muelle park, specially the Pedro Menendez sculpture and La foca ( the seal ); the Ruta del acero set of sculptures along the Avilés estuary ; Avilés sculpture, and different ones such as: Marta y María, El hombre que escucha la piedra ( the man who listens to the stone ), El eslabón, Entre bambalines, etc.

As folklore often goes there are different versions of the Baba Marta tale.

In the park there is a statue of Marta Abreu, a person much loved by the people of Santa Clara.

* 35px 1st Division ( Santa Marta )-Its jurisdiction covers the Northern Region of Colombia in which there are the departments of Cesar, La Guajira, Magdalena, Sucre, Bolívar and Atlántico.