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The Spanish Government, within the framework of the European Union, has supported from the beginning efforts to reach a peaceful solution to the Sri Lankan ethnic problem, and has encouraged Sri Lankan political forces to reach a national consensus on the basis of a peace plan with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). It has also ...
Moctezuma repeatedly protected the Spaniards against potential threats using the little power he had left, either under the threat of the Spanish or by his own will, such as during the succession crisis in Texcoco mentioned above, when he ordered for the ruler of Texcoco, Cacamatzin, to be arrested as he was planning to form an army to attack ...
Moctezuma was killed, although the sources do not agree on who killed him. [12] According to one account, when Moctezuma, now seen by the population as a mere puppet of the invading Spaniards, attempted to calm the outraged populace, he was killed by a projectile. [13] According to an indigenous account, the Spanish killed Moctezuma. [14]
In 1965, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo finished a 205-page draft of a screenplay entitled Montezuma, with a story centered around the complicated relationship between Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and Aztec leader Moctezuma II. The film was written with intent of having Martin Ritt direct and Kirk Douglas play the role of Cortés. The ...
Pages in category "Sri Lankan people of Spanish descent" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. K. Oliver Kelaart
Moctezuma II's headdress, Vienna Replica of the Imperial Crown of Mexico, Second Empire Iturbide Emperador by Josephus Arias Huerta. Prior to the Spanish conquest (1519–1522) most of present-day Mexico formed the Aztec Empire, a Native American empire ruled from Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City) by a tlatoani or "emperor".
Sri Lanka is one of over one-hundred countries which have submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. [nb 1] The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.
Most of the information about Don Gonzalo comes from a probanza de mérito sent by his grandson, Don Joachim de San Francisco y Moctezuma, to the king of Spain. This was a formal request of new privileges, such as total and permanent tax exemption for his entire city, as a reward for his grandfather's help during the conquest.