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2 days ago · It was created in 1983 by the merging of the provinces of the historic region of León: León, Zamora and Salamanca with those of Old Castile ( Castilla la Vieja ): Ávila, Burgos, Palencia, Segovia, Soria and Valladolid.
18 hours ago · The city is thought to have been established around 100 BCE and continued to be built until about 250 CE. The city may have lasted until sometime between the 7th and 8th centuries CE. At its zenith, perhaps in the first half of the 1st millennium CE, Teotihuacan was the largest city in the pre-Columbian Americas. At this time, it may have had ...
1 day ago · Vatican City, designated a World Heritage site in 1984. Vatican City, landlocked ecclesiastical state, seat of the Roman Catholic Church, and an enclave in Rome, situated on the west bank of the Tiber River. Vatican City is the world’s smallest fully independent nation-state.
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6 hours ago · Reporting from Mexico City. June 3, 2024, 5:04 a.m. ET. Mexico elected its first Jewish president over the weekend, a remarkable step in a country with one of the world’s largest Catholic ...
1 day ago · It became independent from Italy in 1929 with the Lateran Treaty, and it is a distinct territory under "full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction" of the Holy See, itself a sovereign entity under international law, which maintains the city-state's temporal power and governance, diplomatic, and spiritual ...
1 day ago · As of 9 p.m. local time in Mexico City, the PREP website had published the results for 808,000 votes. That’s a small fraction of the millions of votes cast in this election.
3 days ago · The movie recreates footage of the ticker-tape parade in Ederle’s honor on August 27, 1926, in New York City. Once the parade was over, she generally avoided the spotlight.
