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    Spanish Town is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica. It was the Spanish and British...
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    "Register of Local Entities". Local Entity Portal (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 June 2022. Spanish autonomous communities and provinces by number of municipalities...
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  • Spanish Town (Spanish: Ciudad Española) may refer to one of the following: Spanish Town, the former Spanish and English capital of Jamaica Spanish Town...
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  • to Spain Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas Spanish cuisine Spanish history Spanish culture Languages of Spain, the...
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    "In a Little Spanish Town ('Twas on a Night Like This)" is a popular song published in 1926. The music was written by Mabel Wayne, and the lyrics by Sam...
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  • Spanish Town Hospital is a hospital in Spanish Town, Jamaica. It is located near the city center. On 24 June 2007, the Danish singer Natasja Saad was...
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  • incorporated in 1802 reflecting its early importance over the then capital Spanish Town, Montego Bay being granted the status in 1980, and Portmore, whose municipal...
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    New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Spanish: Virreinato de Nueva España [birejˈnato ðe ˈnweβa esˈpaɲa] ), originally the Kingdom of New...
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  • Spanish Town on southern Virgin Gorda is the second largest town (after Road Town) on the British Virgin Islands. Also known as Valley, Spanish Town offers...
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    best-known example of the Spanish town meeting system of government was found in the Middle Ages in the Basque Country of northern Spain. Known as the anteiglesia...
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    Spanish colonial architecture represents Spanish colonial influence on New World and East Indies' cities and towns, and it is still seen in the architecture...
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    The Spanish conquest of the Maya was a protracted conflict during the Spanish colonisation of the Americas, in which the Spanish conquistadores and their...
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  • Death of a Spanish Town is a book by Elliot Paul based on his actual experiences of living in the town of Santa Eulària des Riu on the Spanish island of...
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    Central Jamaica portal Spaniard Jamaicans of Spanish descent Charles II of England Above Rocks Linstead Spanish Town The title of largest parish in Jamaica...
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  • Spanish Jamaicans are Jamaican citizens of Spanish origin or descent. In 1508, the first Spanish settlers arrived in Jamaica. The Spaniards first settled...
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  • In Great Britain and Ireland, a county town is the most important town or city in a county.[dubious – discuss] It is usually the location of administrative...
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    Spanish Town railway station opened in 1845 and closed in 1992 when all passenger services in Jamaica abruptly ceased. It provided rail services to Kingston...
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    Charles Knowles, had decided to transfer the government offices from Spanish Town to Kingston. It was thought by some to be an unsuitable location for...
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    Llívia (redirect from Llivia, Spain)
    pronunciation: [ˈʎiβiə]; Spanish: Llivia [ˈʎiβja]) is a town in the comarca of Cerdanya, province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. It is a Spanish exclave surrounded...
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    for Jamaica, the only Spanish West Indies island that did not have new defensive works. Spanish Jamaica had been a colony of Spain for over a hundred years...
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    022) have opted to change their status from "town" to "city" to encourage investment. In Chile, towns (Spanish: pueblos) are defined by the National Statistics...
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    from Spain to form a Catalan Republic on the day the Spanish Senate was discussing approving direct rule over Catalonia as called for by the Spanish Prime...
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    Port Royal (category 1518 establishments in the Spanish Empire)
    Royal is a town located at the end of the Palisadoes, at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica. Founded in 1494 by the Spanish, it was once...
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    Caribbean States, African Union, among others. In Spain and some other parts of the Spanish-speaking world, Spanish is called not only español but also castellano...
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  • The Spanish Town to Ewarton railway was a railway in Jamaica, built to serve the citrus growing regions in the interior of Saint Catherine, particularly...
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    conquistadores (Spanish: [koŋkistaˈðoɾes], Portuguese: [kõkiʃtɐˈðoɾɨʃ, kõkistɐˈdoɾis]; lit 'conquerors') were the explorer-soldiers of the Spanish and Portuguese...
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  • The Spanish conquest of Yucatán was the campaign undertaken by the Spanish conquistadores against the Late Postclassic Maya states and polities in the...
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    Jamaica (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    both from introduced diseases and from enslavement by the Spanish. As a result, the Spanish began importing slaves from Africa to the island. Many slaves...
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    Spanish Town (Spanish: Ciudad española) is a historic district anchored by Spanish Town Road in Baton Rouge, the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana...
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    The Anglo–Spanish War (Spanish: Guerra Anglo-Española) was a military conflict fought between Britain and Spain as part of the Seven Years' War. It lasted...
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