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- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
7: Coronado was governor of [[New Galicia]] (contemporary [[Sinaloa]] and [[Nayarit]], Mexi...
9: He followed the coast of the [[Sea of Cortez]] northward to the [[Sono...
12: ...rand Canyon]]. [[Hernando de Alvarado]] was sent east, and found villages around the [[Rio Grande]]. Co...
14: ...the Turk was found lying about the route, or at least Coronado thought he did so, and was executed. Oth...
16: ...s a complete failure, he remained governor of New Galicia until [[1544]], then retired to [[Mexico City]], ... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...]], and argued that a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
7: ...) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]]), as well as the coasts of [[Central America|Central]] and [[South Ameri...
9: ...s voyages led to a relatively quick, general and lasting recognition of the existence of the [[New Worl...
33: ...e post [[São Jorge da Mina]] at the [[Guinea]] coast.
39: ...[Indies]] (then roughly meaning all of south and east [[Asia]]) by sailing west across the Ocean Sea (t... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
16: ...ers, particularly Highland pipers. In the Middle east, and the Balkans, a whole goatskin is used, cured...
40: ...e [[Biniou Brahz]], meaning Great Biniou, in contrast to the [[biniou]], the small traditional Breton b...
47: ... slow airs, and more. It dates largely from the last two centuries, being either Scottish or Irish fol...
72: ...he bagpipe used in [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]], [[Asturias]] and northern region of [[Portugal]]. It h...
76: ...few have a 'screamer' (ronquito or ronc This last is in unison with the fifth of the chanter scale,... - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
1: ...stern [[Europe]] which borders [[Russia]] to the east, [[Belarus]] to the north, [[Poland]], [[Slovakia...
3: ...itory of present-day Ukraine was a key centre of East Slavic culture in the [[Middle Ages]] before bein...
42: ...T]] ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+2)<br/>[[Eastern European Summer Time|EEST]] ([[Coordinated Uni...
60: ...-Iranian language moved from Ukraine to the southeast but many also remained.
64: ...e Rus' its first powerful dynasty, the [[Rurik Dynasty]]. - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...al]], [[Gibraltar]] and [[Andorra]]. To the northeast, along the [[Pyrenees]] mountain range, it border...
48: ...Basque language|Basque]], and [[Galician language|Galician]] are co-official; in the [[Val d'Aran]], the [[...
60: ...]] successively settled along the Mediterranean coast and founded trading colonies there over a period ...
62: ...iterranean coast on the East, leaving the south coast to the Phoenicians. The Greeks are responsible fo...
66: ... Empire]], [[Hispania Taraconensis]] in the northeast, [[Hispania Baetica]] in the south and [[Lusitani... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
13: ... successes were putting strong pressure on the [[Eastern Orthodox]] [[Byzantine Empire]].
15: A turning point in western attitudes towards the east came in the year [[1009]], when the [[Fatimids|Fa...
21: ...olic]] Western church and the [[Greek Orthodox]] Eastern church, [[Alexius I]] expected some help from ...
23: ...onquista'' as the molding force in the [[Castile|Castilian]] character, with its sense that the highest...
25: ...ds in [[Majorca]] and [[Sardinia]], freeing the coasts of Italy and Catalonia from Muslim raids. Much e... - World War I (62979 bytes)
2: ...genocide|civilian massacres]] took place. Four dynasties, the [[Habsburg]]s, the [[Romanov]]s, the [[Ot...
6: ...o-Turkish conflict, which ended in 1924, was the last direct major conflict of the war. The defeat of ...
16: ... The Archduke himself was not terribly popular, least of all in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. While ther...
19: ...ewer options and little room to maneuver, as the last weeks of July 1914 slipped away. Frantic diplomat...
24: ...[Russia]]. Many in the Austrian leadership, not least [[Habsburg]] Emperor [[Franz Joseph of Austria|Fr... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...te military defeat, resulting in the [[Bourbon Dynasty, Restored|restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in...
22: ...essons of the 18th century's wars on trade and dynastic disputes, it is often falsely assumed that such...
26: ...w armies ever numbered more than 200,000. By contrast, the French army peaked in size in the 1790s when...
28: ...ons now had armies rivalling the Great Powers of past wars in size. However it is necessary to bear in ...
70: ... naval superiority to mount his invasion, or at least to pull the British fleet away from the [[English... - Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
5: Coronado was governor of [[New Galicia]] (contemporary [[Sinaloa]] and [[Nayarit]], Mexi...
8: He followed the coast of the [[Sea of Cortez]] northward to the [[Sono...
10: ...rand Canyon]]. [[Hernando de Alvarado]] was sent east, and found villages around the [[Rio Grande]]. Co...
12: ...the Turk was found lying about the route, or at least Coronado thought he did so, and was executed. Oth...
14: ...s a complete failure, he remained governor of New Galicia until [[1544]], then retired to [[Mexico City]], ... - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
14: ... in extent than [[Libya]] and the [[Ancient Near East|then known Asia]]. This supposedly was sunk by an...
21: A fragmentary work of [[Theophrastus]] of [[Lesbos]] tells about the colonies of Atl...
23: ...lood]]." The [[Garden of Eden]] is placed in the eastern end of this continent.
26: ...self, simply repeated common [[folklore]] of the eastern end of the Mediterranean when he said
27: ...yet since they are joined to the extremity of the Galician country, they belong rather to the great land of... - Culture of Spain (17671 bytes)
1: ...ish [[Islam]], tension between the centralized [[Castilian]] state and its regions, and its minority pe...
4: ...egions or nationalities — even those that least identify themselves as Spanish — have contr...
8: ...gional identity: [[Andalusia]], [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]] and [[Navarre]] each have their own version of ...
10: ...have strong regional identities: [[Cantabria]], [[Asturies]], [[Rioja]], [[Valencia]], [[Aragon]] and [...
12: ...], and the autonomous community of [[Murcia]]. [[Castile]] was the core kingdom under which Spain event... - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
8: ...[[Madrid]]), [[Dame]] of the Queen [[Isabel I of Castile]]. He was an uncle of [[Juan Vázquez de Coron...
11: ...ather was a bastard son of King [[Ferdinand V of Castile]], the Catholic, but there is no documentary p...
14: ...Marcos de Niza returned, he told about a city of vast wealth, a golden city called [[Quivira and Cíbol...
21: ...long with "seventy or eighty of the weakest and least reliable men in Coronado's army remained at the t...
23: ...the [[Mogollón Rim]] which generally runs in an east west direction as opposed to the general north-so...
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