Spanish Adoptionism was a theological position which was articulated in Umayyad and Christian-held regions of the Iberian peninsula in the 8th and 9th centuries.

In 1507, she also held the position of Ambassador for the Spanish Court in England when her father found himself without one, becoming the first female ambassador in European history.

Classical guitars also known as Spanish guitars are typically strung with nylon strings, plucked with the fingers, played in a seated position and are used to play a diversity of musical styles including classical music.

Macau and its position in Portuguese and Spanish global trade routes

Far from bolstering the cabildos position, this move instantly ignited an uprising and the overthrow of Spanish authority in Paraguay on May 14 and 15, 1811.

In a 2008 survey, 57. 9 % of Spanish citizens were indifferent, 16. 2 % favored a Republic, 15. 7 % were monarchists, and 7 % claimed to be Juancarlistas ( supporters of continued monarchy under King Juan Carlos I, without a common position for the fate of the monarchy after his death ).

However, in Hawaiian music, Hawaiian guitar means slack string guitar, played in the conventional or Spanish position.

This Spanish Waltz was a combination of dancing around the room in closed position, and a " formation " dance of two couples facing each other and performing a sequence of steps.

This position changed in 1689 when Leopold secured William III of England's support to claim the undivided Spanish Empire in return for Leopold's aid against France in the War of the Grand Alliance ( 1688 – 1697 ).

Raising Bermuda was essential to Spanish ships for verifying their position before setting course for the Azores.

At the end of the 1940s Gombrowicz was trying to gain a position among Argentine literary circles by publishing articles, giving lectures in Fray Mocho café, and finally, by publishing in 1947 a Spanish translation of Ferdydurke written with the help of his friends, among them Virgilio Piñera.

* Albert VII ( 1559 – 1621 ), Archduke of Austria and governor ( 1596 – 1598 ) and Co-sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands ( modern-day Belgium and Luxembourg ) with Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain, held position ( as Co-sovereign ) 1598 – 1621

* June 26 – War of Jenkins ' Ear – Siege of Fort Mose: A Spanish column of 300 regular troops, free black militia and Indian auxiliaries storms Britain's strategically crucial position of Fort Mose, Florida.

He knew his troops ' position was tenuous, but again had little intelligence on the hardships of the Spanish inside beleaguered Santiago.

With the victory of the U. S. Navy at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, the fate of the Spanish position at Santiago was sealed.

Now being emperor of the Gauls, Victorinus was soon to be in a precarious position, for the Spanish provinces had deserted the Gallic Empire and declared their loyalty to Claudius, while in southern France, Placidianus had captured Grenoble.

Arms in Enrico Cecchetti | Cecchetti's " Spanish fourth " position

Lezo four of the ships went to the aid of the 500 soldiers defending Desnaux position with the head, but the Spanish eventually had to retire to the city, which was already beginning to be evacuated by civilians.

The Spanish declaration of war on Britain and Portugal in October 1796 made the British position in the Mediterranean untenable.

As dawn broke, Jervis's ships were in position to engage the Spanish.

The Spanish renamed the fort San Mateo, and following the ejection of the French, St. Augustine's position as the most important settlement in Florida was solidified.

Feeling himself in an ignominious position, Joseph then proposed his own abdication from the Spanish throne, hoping that Napoleon would sanction his return to the Neapolitan Throne he had formerly occupied.

The variety of Spanish spoken in this province displays some of the characteristics of Andalusian speech, such as dropping of final-s in plural formation: gafa for gafas ( and consequent final vowel opening ) in the word " glasses ", or dropping of / d / in intervocalic position in regular participles of verbs: e. g. acabao for acabado.

This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.

Since Russian was being spoken instead of Spanish, there is no violation of artistry or logic here.

The Creston is purely a potboiler, with Spanish, English, French and American dances mixed into the stew.

In Spanish, ñ is considered a separate letter, but accented vowels such as á and é are not.

The ll and ch were also considered single letters, but in 1994 the Real Academia Española changed collating order so that ll is between lk and lm in the dictionary and ch is between cg and ci, and in 2010 the tenth congress of the Association of Spanish Language Academies changed it so they were no longer letters at all < ref > Real Academia Española.

However this ideal is not normally achieved in practice ; some languages ( such as Spanish and Finnish ) come close to it, while others ( such as English ) deviate from it to a much larger degree.

In standard Spanish, it is possible to tell the pronunciation of a word from its spelling, but not vice versa ; this is because certain phonemes can be represented in more than one way, but a given letter is consistently pronounced.

However, years of activism, and fighting for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War have left him disillusioned .</ br > When the plague epidemic is virtually over, Tarrou becomes one of its last victims, but puts up a heroic struggle before dying.

* 1557 – Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.

* 1559 – Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.

Bolivian Sign Language, for example, is essentially ASL, apart from changes in initialized signs to make them match the spelling of Spanish.

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.

In personal denotation, " gringo " means estadounidense, in particular, and anglophones in general, and, linguistically, any speech not Spanish, i. e. " She is speaking gringo, not Spanish ".

For referring specifically to a U. S. national and things, the words used are estadunidense ( also spelled estado-unidense ) ( United States person ), from Estados Unidos da América, and ianque ( Yankee ), but the term most often used is norte-americano, even though it could, as with its Spanish equivalent, in theory apply to Canadians, Mexicans, etc., as well.

* 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica ( or Gernika in Basque ), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.

An argot (; French, Spanish, and Catalan for " slang ") is a secret language used by various groups — including, but not limited to, thieves and other criminals — to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.

Abalone ( or ; via Spanish, from the ), is a common name for any of a group of small to very large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Haliotidae.

There is a long history of mining in the Andes, from the Spanish silver mines in Potosí in the 16th century to the vast current porphyry copper deposits of Chuquicamata and Escondida in Chile and Toquepala in Peru.

Another place popular with children is the Parque Papagayo which is a large family park which has life-sized replicas of a Spanish galleon and the space shuttle Columbia, three artificial lakes, aviary, skating rink, rides, go-karts and more.

There is some documentary proof that the Romans named the hot sulfur springs of Aachen Aquis-Granum, and indeed to this day the city is known in Italian as Aquisgrana, in Spanish as Aquisgrán and in Polish as Akwizgran.