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Zalesie Górne. Zalesie Górne [zaˈlɛɕɛ ˈɡurnɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Piaseczno, within Piaseczno County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. [1] It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) south-east of Piaseczno and 19 km (12 mi) south of Warsaw. The village was founded in the 1930s, and as of ...
Cuba's provinces, 1879 to 1976 Cuba's provinces on a 1910s map. The provinces were created in 1879 by the Spanish colonial government. From 1879 to 1976, Cuba was divided into six provinces, which maintained with little changes the same boundaries and capital cities, although with modifications in official names.
National newspapers. Granma — published by the Communist Party of Cuba [1] Juventud Rebelde — published by the Union of Young Communists [2] [4] Trabajadores — published by the Centre of Cuban Workers [3] [4] Kwong Wah Po [es] 光华报 (Chinese language; established as La voz de los obreros y campesinos in 1928) [5]
The town is noted for the Battle of Bad Weather (La Batalla de Mal Tiempo), in which Cuban rebels fought Spanish colonialists during the Cuban War of Independence.On December 15, 1895, Cuban rebels engaged Spanish troops near the town of Cruces in the sugar fields of the Mal Tiempo (Bad Weather) sugar mill, setting fire to the sugarcane fields and charging the Spanish with machetes.
The city was founded in 1737 by the Spanish. [1] Prior to the arrival of the Spanish, what is now Güines was part of a region ruled by the Indian chief Habaguanex.. One of the earliest mentions of the word Güines is in 1598, when Don Diego de Rivera or Ribera was awarded a land grant for Los Güines Corral.
Oriente Province is in the most eastern region of Cuba with a population of 1,797,606. [3] It stretches across 14,641 square miles (37,920 km 2) [4] and consists of various mountain ranges with the Sierra Maestra region having Cuba's highest mountain peak and elevation in Pico Turquino. Oriente Province is the cradle of much of Cuba's history ...
El Salto del Hanabanilla. El Salto del Hanabanilla, also known as Hanabanilla, is a Cuban village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Manicaragua, Villa Clara Province. As of 2014 the town has 137 homes making up a total of 436 inhabitants. Is a mountain resort famous for the homonym lake.
The Pact of Zanjón ended the Ten Years' War, the armed struggle of Cubans for independence from the Spanish Empire that lasted from 1868 to 1878. On February 10, 1878, a group of negotiators representing the rebels gathered in Zanjón, a village in Camagüey Province, and signed the document offered them by the Spanish commander in Cuba, General Arsenio Martínez Campos, who had arrived in ...