Accordingly, the Guaraní accepted the arrival of the Spaniards and looked to them for protection against fiercer neighboring tribes.

News of the apparition on Tepayac Hill spread quickly through Mexico ; and in the seven years that followed, 1532 through 1538, the Indian people accepted the Spaniards and 8 million people were converted to the Catholic faith.

There were clubs for each ethnic division in the community – the Deutscher-Americaner Club ( for German and eastern Europeans ), L ’ Unione Italiana ( for Italians ), El Circulo Cubano ( for light-skinned Cubans ), La Union Marti-Maceo ( for darker-skinned Cubans ), El Centro Español ( for Spaniards ), and the largest, El Centro Asturiano, which accepted members from any ethnic group

Immediately after this allusion to the promise of Indians, Bernal writes, " And as three years had already passed [...] and we haven't done a single thing worth the telling, the 110 Spaniards who came from Darién and those who in the island of Cuba do not have Indians " — again an allusion to the lack of Indians — they decided to join up with " an hidalgo title of nobility or gentry, derived from hijo de algo, " son of someone " known as Francisco Hernández de Córdoba [...] and that he was a rich man who had a village of Indians on this island ", who had accepted to be their captain " to go on our venture to discover new lands and in them to employ ourselves ".

The most accepted version is the Ibanag reply to Spaniards, " Tuggui gari yaw.

Because many highly-placed Spaniards of the time thought Paterno held great sway over the natives, Primo de Rivera accepted Paterno's offer.

The first settlement in Mindoro to have been visited by the Spaniards was the village of Mamburao, which according to accepted history made this village the Moro stronghold in the island.

In fact, accounts of Spaniards ' response to the story of the apparitions show that it was the native Mexicans who insisted on using the name " Guadalupe " for Mary ; in fact, various Spaniards encouraged that " Guadalupe " be abandoned for a Nahuatl name, like " Tepeaquilla " or " Tepeaca ".

During the 17th century, the Spaniards carried out four Great Massacres and Expulsions against the unconverted sangleys in response to real or imagined fears of an imminent invasion from China.

British Honduras for the English and Belice for the Spaniards and Guatemalans gained its independence from Great Britain in 1981 and adopted the name " Belize ", although Guatemala still holds territorial claims over this territory.

The Spaniards gave the name " California " to the peninsula and to the lands north, including both Baja California and Alta California, the region that became parts of the present-day U. S. states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.

The Taino developed the hammock ( the name derives from the Taíno term hamaca ) which was first encountered by the Spaniards on the island they subsequently named Hispaniola.

Three reasons in favor of the original name " Guadalupe " include the fact that Juan Diego and Juan Bernardino would have had to be familiar with the " g " and " d " sounds to pronounce their baptismal names, there is no evidence to show that the Virgin was called anything else before Becerra Tanco's proposal, and the number of documents written by contemporary Spaniards and Franciscan Friars arguing for the name of the Virgin to be changed to " Tepeaca " or " Tepeaquilla ," which indicate that indeed the original name was " Guadalupe " and not a native name otherwise there would have been no controversy.

Spelt as Fátima, the name is also common amongst Spaniards and especially Portuguese due to historical Arabic cultural influence, as well as their cultural descendants in the Americas.

The Spaniards that traveled the southern coast of Belize gave Placencia its name.

In past times, it has been called Ma-i or Mait by Chinese traders and, by Spaniards, as Mina de Oro ( meaning " gold mine ") from where the island got its current name.

The Spaniards, thinking he meant it as the name of the island, adopted the name Sikihod which was later changed to Siquijor because the Spaniards found it too difficult to pronounce.

All these were sustained by a great flowing river, one whose earliest name was spoken in a now lost tongue, and which was called the Rio Grande de Pampanga by the Spaniards later on.

The second was when the Spaniards established a settlement around the region and found an abundance of a mollusk called pios or kapid, the old native name which has also come to known as Capiz.

Twin is " Kapid " in the local dialect, so the Spaniards adopted the name Capiz ( Kapid ) as inadvertently miscommunicated to them by the natives.

The Spaniards meanwhile say the name came from the term " mamalakaya ", referring to the fishermen who once laid out their catch on the river bend where the Palace now stands.

The latter was the name given to the Mapuche by the Spaniards but nowadays both the Mapuche and others avoid this usage as the exonym is a remnant of Spanish colonialism, and has therefore become an offensive term.

The name may be in reference to the large shoals of pigeons that can be seen during the spring and autumn months atop Palomar Mountain, or reminiscent of an old pigeon-raising facility built there by the Spaniards.

The Spaniards mispronounced the name and repeated it as " Malaybalay ".

Many Spaniards immigrated to Cuba, calling it a place of refuge.

Dusty in the dry season, a bog in the rains, the place was inhabited by the fierce Querandí tribe that resented having the Spaniards as neighbors.

The Philippine archipelago lies in Southeast Asia in a position that has led to its becoming a cultural crossroads, a place where Malays, Arabs, Chinese, Spaniards, Americans, Japanese and others have interacted to forge a unique cultural and racial blend.

The independence uprising was the first of a dozen similar incidents that took place in Alta California during the Mission Period ; however, most rebellions tended to be localized and short-lived due to the Spaniards ' superior weaponry ( native resistance more often took the form of non-cooperation ( in forced labor ), return to their homelands ( desertion of forced relocation ), and raids on mission livestock ).

In 1564, after a failed attempt in 1563, the Spaniards under command of García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca took the place from a garrison of 150 Ottoman soldiers, that were all killed.

Those whose father or mother were born original Spaniards ( regardless of their place of birth, whether they are still living, or whether they currently hold Spanish nationality ) and those whose grandparents emigrated due to political or economic reasons will have the right to de origen Spanish nationality.

Regardless of their place of birth, the adult children and grandchildren of original Spaniards ( original Spaniards are those who, at the moment of their birth, were born to people who possessed Spanish citizenship ) can also access Spanish nationality on softer terms than other foreigners: they require just 1 year of legal residence, and they are exempted from work restrictions.

Upon its discovery by Spaniards, it was rapidly disseminated to other adequate climate areas of the world, to the point that 18th-century taxonomists mistook China for its place of origin and called it " Capsicum chinense "— the Chinese pepper.

When Spaniards came to the place during the Spanish era, some of them said that the place remind them of Alcoi, Spain, having a green and lushes environment and the simplicity of the place and the inhabitants.

The first Spaniards who came to this place were the friars who established the first Spanish settlement in the area and began to Christianize the local population.

The Spaniards, having difficulty in pronouncing the " G " consonant, called this place " Mabitac " whenever they mentioned this place.

In 1614, the Spaniards fortified the place with Muralla ( high thick walls ) and surrounded it with moats, the place was called Puerto de Cavite ( port of Cavite ).

Cavite la Punta was christened Cavite el Puerto also known as Cavite Nuevo, when the Spaniards discovered that Cavite la Punta was a suitable place for the repair and construction of their ships and galleons.

: Here it is told how the Spaniards killed, they murdered the Mexicas who were celebrating the Fiesta of Huitzilopochtli in the place they called The Patio of the Gods

The name " Pikit " was given to the place by the Spaniards.

The name ( Ylog ) Ilog was recommended by a Tagalog guide of the Spaniards because the place was entirely surrounded by the longset river in the whole island of Negros ; the Ilog Hilabangan River.

It was not hard for the Spaniards to impose the reduccion in Aclán ; there was, no need for the Spaniards to gather the residents of Aclán in one place.

Aclán was, in the very first place, already a large settlement prior to the coming of the Spaniards.

The moment Aclán became an encomienda to the Spaniards, it fostered the development of the place to gradually become a town as people conceive of it now.