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  2. List of place names of Spanish origin in the United States

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    Post-colonial: Spanish place names that have no history of being used during the colonial period for the place in question or for nearby related places. (Ex: Lake Buena Vista, Florida, named in 1969 after a street in Burbank, California) Non-Spanish: Place names originating from non-Spaniards or in non-historically Spanish areas.

  3. Fort San Juan (Joara) - Wikipedia

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    Fort San Juan was the first European settlement in North Carolina and the interior of present-day United States, predating the earliest English settlement at Roanoke Island, North Carolina by 18 years. [3] In 1568, natives from Joara and the region surrounding the fort razed this and the five other Spanish forts, killing all but one of the ...

  4. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A river in North Carolina that is full of laughs. It is also the name of a town in Alamance County, North Carolina. Haßloch: A municipality in Germany that means "hate-hole". Hazard: The county seat of Perry County, Kentucky. Hazardville: A section of the town of Enfield in Hartford County in Connecticut. It must be known for its hazards all ...

  5. List of municipalities of Spain - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of lists of the municipalities of Spain. The municipalities list links are listed below, by autonomous community and province . In 2022, there were a total of 8,131 municipalities in Spain, including the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla *. [ 1 ]

  6. List of Spanish cities - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 19 December 2007, at 15:02 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  7. List of U.S. places named after non-U.S. places - Wikipedia

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    For the purposes of this list, place means any named location that is smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts. Also included are country homes, castles, palaces, and similar institutions.

  8. Alpujarras - Wikipedia

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    Starting in 1571, settlers were brought in from all over Spain; many came from as far away as Galicia. Though they were given various financial incentives, the re-settlement proved difficult. The population of the Alpujarra, estimated at 40,000 before the final revolt, was only about 7,000 by the end of the century.

  9. List of metropolitan areas in Spain - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the largest metropolitan areas in Spain by population. Infographic based on Corinne Land Cover 2018. IGN. Estimates are from the following sources: the "Functional Urban Areas" (FUAs) of the Study on Urban Functions of the European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON, 2007) [1]