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Coastal mission chain, planning and overview. Prior to 1754, grants of mission lands were made directly by the Spanish Crown. But, given the remote locations and the inherent difficulties in communicating with the territorial governments, he delegated authority to make grants to the viceroys of New Spain.
This article contains tables of U.S. cities and metropolitan areas with information about the population aged 5 and over that speaks Spanish at home. The tables do not reflect the total number or percentage of people who know Spanish.
On 1 October 1936, General Francisco Franco was proclaimed "Leader of Spain" (Spanish: Caudillo de España) in the parts of Spain controlled by the Nationalists (nacionales) after the Spanish Civil War broke out. At the end of the war, on 1 April 1939, Franco took control of the whole of Spain, ending the Second Republic.
Origin. According to Chicano artist and writer José Antonio Burciaga: . Caló originally defined the Spanish gypsy dialect. But Chicano Caló is the combination of a few basic influences: Hispanicized English; Anglicized Spanish; and the use of archaic 15th-century Spanish words such as truje for traje (brought, past tense of verb 'to bring'), or haiga, for haya (from haber, to have).
The Norfolk Cares hotline, a single point of contact to request city services or find out information about the city, handles 10 to 15 calls per day from Spanish speaking customers.
The Franco-Spanish border runs for 656.3 kilometres (407.8 mi) between southwestern France and northeastern Spain. It begins in the west on the Bay of Biscay at the French city of Hendaye and the Spanish city of Irun ( 43°22′32″N 01°47′31″W ). The border continues eastward along the Pyrenees to the sovereign nation of Andorra ( 42°36 ...
The Hispanic population is the largest non-traditional minority group in Metro Atlanta. Hispanics grew from 30,000 in 1982, to over 110,000 in 1992 [1] —260% in ten years. Between 1992 and 1996, the Hispanic population of the Atlanta metro area grew to over 231,619 [3] —an increase of 110% in just six years. Of these, 9,571, or 4%, are ...
The Mexico City Metro has the highest passenger ridership from a single operator in Latin America, and second in the Americas, after the New York City Subway. São Paulo is the city with the largest number of passengers carried by trains. *Corresponds to the ridership source provided for each transit system, except for the Santiago Metro ...