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Mar 9, 2024 · The autonomous community of Galicia finally was established by a second statute of autonomy on April 6, 1981. Galicia has a parliament, headed by a president, and a unicameral assembly. The capital is Santiago de Compostela, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985. Area 11,419 square miles (29,574 square km).
3 days ago · Chile, country situated along the western seaboard of South America. A long, narrow country, it extends approximately 2,700 miles and has an average width of just 110 miles. It is bounded on the north by Peru and Bolivia, on the east by Argentina, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. Its capital is Santiago.
Mar 4, 2024 · Philip II (born May 21, 1527, Valladolid, Spain—died September 13, 1598, El Escorial) king of the Spaniards (1556–98) and king of the Portuguese (as Philip I, 1580–98), champion of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation. During his reign the Spanish empire attained its greatest power, extent, and influence, though he failed to suppress ...
Mar 3, 2024 · Inca, South American Indians who, at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1532, ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands from the northern border of modern Ecuador to the Maule River in central Chile. A brief treatment of the Inca follows; for full treatment, see pre-Columbian civilizations: The Inca.
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6 days ago · The Treaty of Rijswijk (1697) formally ceded the western third of Hispaniola from Spain to France, which renamed it Saint-Domingue. The colony’s population and economic output grew rapidly during the 18th century, and Saint-Domingue became France’s most prosperous New World possession, exporting sugar and smaller amounts of coffee , cacao ...
Mar 10, 2024 · BM-13 Katyusha (1940) 02.03.2024 The BM-13 Katysusha is probably the best known model of the cohort (100,000) of self-propelled rocket launching systems developed by the Soviet Union from the late 1920s to late 1930s experimentally, fielding its first batteries in the July 1941 defense and being decisive on the December 1941 campaign of Moskow.