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  2. Culture of Cuba - Wikipedia

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    Cuba is a primarily Catholic country. Another large religion in Cuba is Santería. Santería is a blend of Catholicism and traditional Yoruba religions. When African slaves first arrived in Cuba during the 16th century, they were taught a few simple prayers and were baptised by the Spanish. The slaves combined this limited form of Catholicism ...

  3. History of Cuba - Wikipedia

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    Although still a developing country itself, Cuba supported African, Latin American and Asian countries in the fields of military development, health and education. [179] These "overseas adventures" not only irritated the United States but were also quite often a source of dispute with Cuba's ostensible allies in the Kremlin. [180]

  4. Fernando Ortiz Fernández - Wikipedia

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    Fernando Ortiz Fernández (16 July 1881 – 10 April 1969) was a Cuban essayist, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist and scholar of Afro-Cuban culture. Ortiz was a prolific polymath dedicated to exploring, recording, and understanding all aspects of indigenous Cuban culture.Ortiz has been called the "third discoverer of Cuba", after Christopher Columbus and Alexander von Humboldt.

  5. Category:Culture of Cuba - Wikipedia

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  6. Columbus's letter on the first voyage - Wikipedia

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    The Copiador letter notes Juana is called "Cuba" by the natives ("aquéllos llaman de Cuba"). He also gives more details about the gold island, saying it is "larger than Juana", and lying on the other side of it, "which they call Jamaica ", where "all the people have no hair and there is gold without measure" ("que llaman Jamaica; adonde toda ...

  7. Cubans - Wikipedia

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    Officially called amarilla (yellow in English) in the Cuban census, [30] Cubans of East Asian origins made up 1.02% of the population in the 2002 Census of Cuba. They are primarily made up of ethnic Chinese who are descendants of indentured laborers who came in the 19th century to build railroads and work in mines. Historically, Chinese ...

  8. Cuba - Wikipedia

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    Cuba, [c] officially the Republic of Cuba, [d] is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet.

  9. Timeline of Cuban history - Wikipedia

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    The first African slaves arrive in Cuba. 1532: The first slave rebellion is crushed. 1537: A French fleet briefly occupies Havana. French corsairs blockade Santiago de Cuba. 1542: The Spanish crown abandons the encomienda colonial land settlement system. 1553: The Governor of Cuba relocates to Havana. 1555: French campaign against the Sudan ...