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May 23, 2024 · Spanish abbreviations are key to helping you communicate fast and effectively! If you want to text and email like a native Spanish speaker, we've got you completely covered here. By the end of this post, you'll know how to abbreviate over 75 commonly used titles, words and phrases in Spanish.
2 days ago · The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile. These overseas territories of the Spanish Empire were under the jurisdiction of Crown of Castile ...
2 days ago · The Spanish Empire, [b] sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy [c] or the Catholic Monarchy, [d] [5] [6] [7] was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. [8] [9] In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery. It achieved a global scale, [10] controlling vast portions of the Americas ...
May 16, 2024 · Region: Pyrenean area. Spoken by fewer than 10,000 speakers in the Aragon valleys of the Pyrenees, Aragonese is a Romance language that is very similar to Spanish, Catalan and Occitan. It also shares many similarities with Basque. Aragonese has four variations—Western Aragonese, Southern Aragonese, Central Aragonese, and Eastern Aragonese.
May 21, 2024 · Spanish language, Romance language (Indo-European family) spoken as a first language by some 360 million people worldwide. In the early 21st century, Mexico had the greatest number of speakers, followed by Colombia, Argentina, the United States, and Spain. It is an official language of more than 20 countries.
4 days ago · Colombia, [b] officially the Republic of Colombia, [c] is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the ...
6 days ago · Simon Bolivar, Venezuelan soldier and statesman who led revolutions against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, and Venezuela). He was president of Gran Colombia (1819–30) and dictator of Peru (1823–26). He is widely regarded as Latin America’s greatest genius.
