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22 hours ago · Franschhoek (meaning French Corner in Dutch) is a large town in the Western Cape, so named for the French Huguenots, who traveled and settled there. There is a striking French influence in the town, which can be found firstly in street names which include La Rochelle Street, Bordeaux Street, Huguenot Street, Roux Malherbe Street, and Cabriere Street.
22 hours ago · Afro–Latin Americans. Afro–Latin Americans or Black Latin Americans[30] (sometimes Afro-Latinos [a][34]) are Latin Americans of sub-Saharan African heritage. African heritage is common throughout Latin America. [35][36][37] The term Afro–Latin American is not widely used in Latin America outside academic circles.
22 hours ago · Judaeo-Spanish, also called Ladino, is a Romance language derived from Old Spanish that was spoken by the eastern Sephardic Jews who settled in the Eastern Mediterranean after their expulsion from Spain in 1492; Haketia (also known as "Tetuani Ladino" in Algeria), an Arabic-influenced variety of Judaeo-Spanish, was spoken by North African Sephardic Jews who settled in the region after the 1492 ...
22 hours ago · Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...
22 hours ago · Ángel Di María. Ángel Fabián Di María (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈaŋxel faˈβjan di maˈɾia]; born 14 February 1988) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a right winger or attacking midfielder for Primeira Liga club Benfica. Di María began his career with Rosario Central but came into prominence at Benfica after signing ...
22 hours ago · Spanish Inquisition records reveal two prosecutions in Spain and only a few more throughout the Spanish Empire. [106] In 1815, Francisco Javier de Mier y Campillo , the Inquisitor General of the Spanish Inquisition and the Bishop of Almería , suppressed Freemasonry and denounced the lodges as "societies which lead to atheism, to sedition and to all errors and crimes."
22 hours ago · Kiribati. Kiribati (/ ˈkɪrɪbæs / ⓘ KIRR-i-bass, [10] Gilbertese: [kiɾibas]), officially the Republic of Kiribati (Gilbertese: Ribaberiki Kiribati), [11][12][13] is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. Its permanent population is over 119,000 as of the 2020 census, with more than half ...
