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The English word nation from Middle English c. 1300, nacioun "a race of people, large group of people with common ancestry and language," from Old French nacion "birth (naissance), rank; descendants, relatives; country, homeland" (12c.) and directly from Latin nationem (nominative natio (nātĭō), supine of verb nascar « to birth » (supine ...
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo: 2002-2006: Santuchista Liberation Army es: 1973-1974: ERP-22 de Agosto: 1973-1974: Popular Liberation Commands es: 1973-1975: Workers Power Communist Organization es: 1970–1981: Montoneros: 1970–1976: People's Revolutionary Army: National colours of Argentina (Light blue and white) defaced by the Red star. 1968 ...
The national flag of Uruguay (bandera nacional de Uruguay), officially known as the National Pavilion (Pabellón Nacional), is one of the three official flags of Uruguay along with the flag of Artigas and the flag of the Treinta y Tres. It has a field of nine equal horizontal stripes alternating white and blue.
(Pintura de castas, c. 1780), Unknown author, Mexico Very generally speaking ethno-racial relations can be arranged on an axis between the two extremes of European and Indigenous American cultural and biological heritage, this is a remnant of the colonial Spanish caste system which categorized individuals according to their perceived level of ...
[9] [10] It arose in response to what indigenist movements describe as "repression" and the perceived disregard of land deeds (Títulos de Merced). [11] This was accompanied by a wave of Mapuche migration from the south-central region to major Chilean cities during the Chilean military dictatorship and before. [ 12 ]
From a statistical point of view, in Spain, a singular population entity (in Spanish: entidad singular de población) [1] is defined as "any inhabited area within a municipality, inhabited or exceptionally uninhabited, clearly differentiated within that municipality and that is known by a specific name that identifies it without the possibility of confusion", according to the definition of the ...
In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe.
The Message to the Nation (Spanish: Mensaje a la nación) is a political tradition in Hispanic American countries that consists of a speech delivered by the head of state [1] before a representation of the Nation in which the government is rendered accountable at the beginning of the new ordinary legislative period or extraordinary measures are announced.