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Santa Isabel islanders suffered attacks from blackbirding in the nineteenth century (the often-brutal recruitment or kidnapping of labourers for the sugar plantations in Queensland and Fiji). In April 1885, a German Protectorate was declared over the North Solomon Islands , including Santa Isabel Island.
Santa Isabel, Espírito Santo, a town in the state of Espírito Santo; Santa Isabel, Goiás, a town in the state of Goiás; Santa Isabel, São Paulo, a town in the state of São Paulo; Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, in the state of Amazonas; Vila Santa Isabel, a neighborhood in Carrão (district of São Paulo)
Santa Isabel belongs to the Guarulhos macro region, thus it is part of the Greater São Paulo region as well. The municipality lies in the basins of the Rio Jaguari and the Rio Paraíba do Sul and 84% of the municipality is protected by environmental laws because of its significance as a potable water source [4] The municipality contains part of the 292,000 hectares (720,000 acres) Mananciais ...
The Santa Isabel massacre took place on January 10, 1916, at Santa Isabel, Chihuahua, Mexico, as part of Mexican Revolution.Mexican bandits led by Pablo Lopez, aligned with revolutionary Pancho Villa and operating in de facto government territory of Villa's rivals, the Constitutionalists—stopped a train in Santa Isabel and removed from it around 17 American citizens who were employees of the ...
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Santa Isabel is one of the larger islands in the chain, but it has a very low population density. Kokota is the main language of three villages: Goveo and Sisigā on the North coast, and Hurepelo on the South coast, though there are a few speakers who reside in the capital, Honiara, and elsewhere.
Zabana is an Oceanic language spoken almost exclusively in the Kia district on the northern part of Santa Isabel Island in the Solomon Islands.Zabana is considered a developing language (Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale – EGIDS – level 5) which means that the language is in vigorous use, with literature in a standardized form being used by some, though this is not yet ...
The family of Northwest Solomonic languages is a branch of the Oceanic languages.It includes the Austronesian languages of Bougainville and Buka in Papua New Guinea, and of Choiseul, New Georgia, and Santa Isabel (excluding Bugotu) in Solomon Islands.