Cartagena

During the 16th and 17th centuries, Cartagena was part of the Spanish Main, one of the chief ports of the Spanish treasure fleet and so a prime target by English pirates and French buccaneers (such as Sir Francis Drake, who sacked the city in 1586). Many of Cartagena's fortifications still stand: the Castle of San Felipe de Barajas, built between 1536 and 1657; the walls around the Old City (las Murallas); the undersea wall across Bocagrande built between 1771 and 1778; and the forts of San Jose and San Fern ...

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Cartagena, Colombia, Cartagena, Colombia - Geography, Cartagena, Colombia - History, Cartagena, Colombia - Climate

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Cartagena can refer to: a location: Cartagena, Colombia Cartagena, Spain Cartagena Canton, Spain (historic) Cartagena, a German-style board game about the 1672 escape from the fortress of Cartagena. Other related archives1672, Cartagena, Colombia, Cartagena, Spain, German-style board game

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Abdera was an ancient seaport town on the south coast of Spain, between Malaca (now Málaga) and Carthago Nova (now Cartagena), in the district inhabited by the Bastuli. It was founded by the Carthaginians as a trading station, and after a period of decline became under the Romans one of the more important towns in the province of Hispania Baetica. It was situated on a hill above the modern Adra. Of its coins the most ancient bear the Phoenician inscription abdrt with the head of Heracles (Melkarth) and a tunny-fi ...

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For other places of the same name, see Cartagena. Cartagena is a seaport in southeast Spain on the Mediterranean Sea, in the autonomous community of Murcia. The coordinates of Cartagena are 37°36′N 0°59′W. It is a walled town and has a fine harbor defended by forts. In the time of Philip II of Spain, it was a major naval seaport of Spain. It's still an imp ...

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In several forms of Christianity, but especially in Roman Catholicism, a patron saint has special affinity for a trade or group. St. Florian is the patron saint of firefighters, and St. Christopher is the patron saint of travellers, for example. Eastern Orthodoxy generally doesn't associate saints with occupations and activities, or does so to a much lesser degree. Patron saints can also be associated with geographical areas: St. Joseph is the patron saint of Belgium, and St. Patrick is patron saint of Ireland, fo ...

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A carnival is a public celebration or parade combining some elements of a circus and public street party, generally during the Carnival Season. Carnival is traditionally a Roman Catholic and, to a lesser extent, Christian Orthodox celebration. Most Protestant and non-Christian areas do not celebrate it, with some Fundamentalist Protestant groups condemning the celebration, although the word carnival has passed into the vernacular and taken on secul ...

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Saint Vincent Ferrer, (In Valencian Sant Vicent Ferrer) (23 January 1350 – April 5, 1419) was a Valencian Dominican missionary; born in Valencia, Kingdom of Valencia (modern day Land of Valencia, Spain). Ferrer was professed in the Order of Saint Dominic at the age of 18, and after studying, became Master of Sacred Theology. He was commissioned to deliver lectures on philosophy. He was sent to Barcelona and received his doctorate at Lleid ...

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 - Total (2003)  - Density 44,531,434 36/km²  - Declared  - Recognised July 20, 1810 August 7, 1819 The Republic of Colombia is a country in northwestern South America. It is bordered to the north and north-west by the Caribbean Sea, to the east by Venezuela and Brazil, to the south by Ecuador and Peru, and to the west by Panama and the Pacific Ocean. Colombia - History. Main article: History of ...

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The War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748). Maria Theresa of Austria succeeded her father Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor in his Habsburg dominions in 1740, namely becoming Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, and Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla. For a woman to inherit such vast territories involved many complications, which were perceived long before, and Emperor Charles VI had long anticipated them, getting all the other powers to agree to the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713. The plan was for her to succeed ...

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• War of the Austrian Succession - Operations in Italy 1745-1747
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The potato (plural form: potatoes) (Solanum tuberosum) is a perennial plant of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, grown for its starchy tuber. In recent centuries potatoes have become the world's most important tuber crop and its fourth most important source of food energy (after rice, wheat, and maize): farmers and gardeners grow them world-wide. Growers cultivate thousands of different varieties of potato. The potato originated in the Andes, in the area of present-day Peru. Pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Andean cultures culti ...

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The Nine Years War (also known as the War of the League of Augsburg, the War of the Grand Alliance, the Orleans War, the War of the Palatinian Succession, and the War of the English Succession) was a major war fought in Europe and America from 1688 to 1697, between France and the League of Augsburg — which, by 1689, was known as the "Grand Alliance". The war was fought to resist French expansionism along the Rhine, as well as, on the part of England, to safeguard the results of the Glorious Revolut ...

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Valledupar (bä'-yĕ-dū-pärr): (from the place name Valle de Upar, Valley of Upar named after a legendary Native American cacique). Founded in 1550 by Spanish conqueror Cpt. Hernando de Santana, Valledupar is a city located in northeastern Colombia, between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serrania del Perija to the margin of the Guatapurí River, capital of the department of Cesar. It developed an Important agricultural, cattle raising and agroindustrial center for the region between the departments of ...

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Phoenicia was an ancient civilization in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal plain of what is now Lebanon, between the Lebanon Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. Phoenician civilization was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread right across the Mediterranean during the first millennium BC. Though ancient boundaries of such city-centered cultures fluctuated, the city of Tyre seems to have been the southernmost. Sarepta between Sidon and Tyre, is the most thoroughly excavated city of the Ph ...

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The carnival in Colombia was introduced by the Spaniards. The Colombian carnival has incorporated elements from the European cultures, it has managed to syncretise or to re-interpret traditions that belonged to the African and Amerindian cultures of Colombia. There is documentary evidence that the carnival existed in Colombia in the XVIII century and had already caused concerned to the colonial authorities, who censored the celebrations, especially in the mains centers of power such as Cartagena, Bogotá and Popayan. The carnival, therefore, ...

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The arepa is a Colombian and Venezuelan foodstuff, popular in many other Latin American countries, and increasingly available worldwide. It is composed of a flat (the flatness varies) meal cake of maize flour, split in half and filled with cheese, deli meats, and a great variety of fillings. It may be eaten closed like a sandwich, or dressed with toppings and eaten open-faced. Although similar to a sandwich in its presentation, it can als ...

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Arturo Pérez-Reverte (b. 1951) is a Spanish novelist and journalist. Born in Cartagena, Spain. He worked as war reporter for twenty-one years (1973 - 1994). He started his journalist career writing for the now extinct newspaper Pueblo and then for Televisión Española (the Spanish state-owned television), often as a war correspondent. His first novel was released in 1986. He is now a member of the Real ...

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Abdera was an ancient seaport town on the south coast of Spain, between Malaca (now Málaga) and Carthago Nova (now Cartagena), in the district inhabited by the Bastuli. It was founded by the Carthaginians as a trading station, and after a period of decline became under the Romans one of the more important towns in the province of Hispania Baetica. It was situated on a hill above the modern Adra. Of its coins the most ancient bear the Phoenician inscription abdrt with the head of Heracles (Melkarth) and a tunny-fi ...

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A canton is a territorial subdivision of a country, e.g. region or state. Cantons exist in the following countries: Cantons of Bosnia and Herzegovina: a subdivision of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Canada: cantons of Quebec (see also township (Canada)) Cantons of Costa Rica Cantons of Ecuador: subdivisions below the provinces of Ecuador Cantons of France: a subdivision of arrondissements and departments of France, grouping several municipalities (communes ...

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Cartagena, Colombia, also known as Cartagena de Indias or La Heroica (The Heroic), is a large seaport on the north coast of Colombia. It has a population of 1,120,000, with 2.6 million living in its metropolitan area. Founded in 1533 by don Pedro de Heredia, and named after Cartagena, Spain, it was a major center of early Spanish settlement in the Americas, and continues to be an economic hub as well as a popular tourist destination. Cartagena Colombia - Geography. Cartagena faces the Caribbea ...

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Abraham Zacuto (אברהם זכות) (portuguese: Abraão ben Samuel Zacuto) was a Jewish astronomer, mathematician and historian who served as Royal Astronomer in the 15th Century to King John II of Portugal. Abraham Zacuto - Life. Zacuto was born in Salamanca, Spain circa 1450. He studied astronomy at the University of Salamanca and taught there as well. He later was for a time teacher of astronomy at the universities of Zaragoza and then Cartagena. He was versed in Jewish Law, and was rabb ...

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