:" According to one explanation, the pre-Columbian tribes in Mexico called themselves Meshicas, and the Spaniards, employing the letter x ( which at that time represented a " sh " and " ch " sound ), spelled it Mexicas.

What the Spaniards then called " chocolatl " was said to be a beverage consisting of a chocolate base flavored with vanilla and other spices that was served cold.

Jean-David Nau, better known as François l ' Ollonais, and Daniel Montbars, who destroyed so many Spanish ships and killed so many Spaniards that he was called " the Exterminator ".

It may have been the first European expedition to explore parts of the Chesapeake Bay, which the Spaniards called " Bahía de Santa María " or " Bahía de Madre de Dios.

This is allegedly how the Haarlem war cry " Sint Bavo voor Haarlem " originated, which was used during the siege against the Spaniards in 1572 that eventually resulted in an underground cathedra called the Sint Josephstatie, on the Goudsmitsplein.

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.

The Spaniards were never secure in Jolo, so by 1878, they had fortified Jolo with a perimeter wall and tower gates ; built inner forts called Puerta Blockaus, Puerta España, and Puerta Alfonso XII ; and two outer fortifications named Princesa de Asturias and Torre de la Reina.

Despite Alvarado's initial success in the Battle of Acajutla, the indigenous people of Cuzcatlan, who according to tradition were led by a warlord called Atlacatl, defeated the Spaniards and their auxiliaries, and forced them to withdraw to Guatemala.

At the time, the area was ruled by a female chief the Spaniards called Guatari Mico.

The Spaniards called the village Salamanca in honor of the city of Salamanca in western Spain, and established a mission, headed by a secular priest named Sebastián Montero.

Saint Johns, the site of a useful crossing of the Little Colorado River, was originally called El Vadito, ( Spanish for " the little crossing ") by Spaniards as they first explored the area.

This can be explained by the presence of a dike called the Spanjaardsdijk or Spaniards Dike which was built before or during the Eighty Years ' War.

The first pueblos in the area appeared between 1 and 600 A. D., established by the Tiwas ( called Tigua by the Spaniards ), and by 1, 200 AD there were already 14 major sites along the Rio Grande River from Algodones to Isleta, the Chamisal Site in present-day Los Ranchos being among the largest of these communities.

By 1200 AD, the local Indians had adopted agriculture and lived in small, closely knit settlements, which the Spaniards later called pueblos.

The first Spaniards came to Presidio in 1535, when Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions stopped at the Indian pueblo, placed a cross on the mountainside, and called the village La Junta de las Cruces.

Certainly, the physical characteristics of Kanosh and others of the " Bearded Utes ," as Silvestre Vélez de Escalante had called the Pahvants in the 1770s, suggest generations of contact with the Spaniards.

Arnis comes from arnes, old Spanish for harness or armor ( harness is also an archaic English term for armor with the same roots ), which is what the costumes worn during Moro-moro ( MorosSIS y Cristianos ) stage plays were called when practitioners disguised their art as merely stage fight choreography for public entertainment under the Spaniards ' noses.

On the morning of the 16th, Hidalgo called Mass, which was attended by about 300, including hacienda owners, local politicians and Spaniards.

When the first Spaniards arrived in the 16th century, they found the Filipinos having a civilization of their own and some living in well-organized independent villages called barangays.

In his pamphlet from February 11, 1873, called " The Spanish Republic and the Cuban Revolution ", he argued that " Cubans do not live as Spaniards live (...).

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.

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.

He called the river Arroyo de los Mártires (" river of the martyrs ") on March 9, 1776 but later Spaniards called it Río de las Ánimas (" spirit river or river of the ( lost ) souls ").

During the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines, the Spaniards called the island as Island of Fire ().

Upon the Spaniards ' arrival to the Philippines, they were dismayed to find such a strong Muslim presence on the island, having just expelled the Moors from Spain after centuries of fighting.

There are on this island thousands of goats, which the Spaniards call cabritos, which are very wild: you shall sometimes see one or two hundred of them together, and sometimes you may behold them going in a flock almost a mile long .”

The first island in the Vanuatu group discovered by Spaniards was Espiritu Santo when, in 1606, the Portuguese explorer, Pedro Fernández de Quirós, spied what he thought was a southern continent.

Before the Spaniards return, an English ship appears ; mutineers have commandeered the vessel and intend to maroon their captain on the island.

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.

The Spaniards and their native allies left the island for the nearby islands of Mazaua and Leyte, guided by Datu Bankaw.

Once the Cavite shipyard was subdued by means of a Stipulated Pact, two American ships went ashore at Corregidor Island on the 3rd of May forcing the Spaniards on the island to surrender.

Researchers M. Falchi and M. Zucca found a manuscript dating the first tournament to 1543, whereas Pau, a late local historian, believed it originated in Oristano before the Spaniards set foot on the island.

However, the Spaniards ignored the island as other parts of the New World were of greater interest to them.

The island was first sighted by the Spaniards in 1565 during Miguel López de Legaspi's expedition.

Esteban Rodriguez of the Legazpi Expedition in 1565 led the first Spaniards to “ discover ” the island.

The Spaniards were drawn by the vision of the firefly illumination and as one version of the legend recounts, they met the island ’ s ruler – the legendary King Kihod while they were docking their ship at one of Siquijor ’ s bays.

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.

Thus, the Spaniards called the land Negros after the black natives they saw on their arrival on the island in April 1565.

Revenge sank with her mixed prize-crew of 70 Spaniards and English prisoners near the island of Terceira, at the approximate position.

The city of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec predecessor of Mexico City that was home to 500, 000 people when the Spaniards arrived, stood on a small natural island in Lake Texcoco that was surrounded by countless artificial chinamitl islands.

Despite suspicion of treachery, they allowed the Spaniards to take shelter under truce, between San Juan de Ulúa island, on an otherwise open coastline.

The song is titled " El Asunto: Salcedo Sigue Siendo Mortal " ( The Issue: Salcedo is still a Mortal ) and it makes a comparison between the Spaniards ' rule in the island and the United States ' invasion of 1898.

In 1529, Hızır drove the Spaniards from the rocky, fortified island in front of Algiers, and founded the Ottoman power in the region.