Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Dominic de Guzmán, recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church, founded the Dominican Order which was approved by Pope Innocent III in 1215. This list of saints and beati of the Dominican Order is alphabetical. It includes Dominican saints from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.
The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally.Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current naming trends, or else be composed of the personal names occurring most often within the total population.
The naming customs of Hispanic America are similar to the Spanish naming customs practiced in Spain, with some modifications to the surname rules.Many Hispanophones in the countries of Spanish-speaking America have two given names, plus like in Spain, a paternal surname (primer apellido or apellido paterno) and a maternal surname (segundo apellido or apellido materno).
Orders, decorations, and medals of the Dominican Republic (1 C, 9 P) Pages in category "National symbols of the Dominican Republic" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Their names are in ascending alphabetical order and the table may be re-sorted by clicking on the arrows in the column header cells. The Taíno were the Indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas , Greater Antilles , and some of the Lesser Antilles – especially in Guadeloupe , Dominica and Martinique .
Some of the Dominican Republic's important symbols are the flag, the coat of arms, and the national anthem, titled Himno Nacional. The flag has a large white cross that divides it into four quarters. Two quarters are red and two are blue. Red represents the blood shed by the liberators. Blue expresses God's protection over the nation.
Out of the 676 possible pairs of regional indicator symbols (26 × 26), only 270 are considered valid Unicode region codes. These are a subset of the region sequences in the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR): [6] [7] [8] All 256 regular region sequences in the CLDR 249 officially assigned ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes
To a section: This is a redirect from a topic that does not have its own page to a section of a page on the subject. For redirects to embedded anchors on a page, use {{R to anchor}} instead.