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  2. Ajacan - Wikipedia

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    Ajacán – variants include Xacan, Jacan, Iacan, Axaca and Axacam – was a short-lived Spanish settlement, between 1570 and 1571, near Chesapeake Bay, in what would later become Virginia. The settlement was intended to be the capital of a larger Spanish colony , named the Province of Axacan , straddling the future Mid-Atlantic region of the ...

  3. Ajacán Mission - Wikipedia

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    The Ajacán Mission (Spanish pronunciation:) (also Axaca, Axacam, Iacan, Jacán, Xacan) was a Spanish attempt in 1570 to establish a Jesuit mission in the vicinity of the Virginia Peninsula to bring Christianity to the Virginia Native Americans. [1]

  4. American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language [5] that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing both manual and nonmanual features . [ 6 ]

  5. Varieties of American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    American Peace Corps volunteers created Moroccan Sign Language in 1987 in Tetouan from American Sign Language (ASL) and the existing signs; there is less than a 50% lexical similarity with ASL. It is not clear if the 'existing signs' were home sign or an established village sign language. The language is used in three programs for the deaf, but ...

  6. List of sign languages by number of native signers - Wikipedia

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    Spanish Sign Language: French Sign Language family or Language isolate (disputed) Spain except Catalonia and Valencia: Officially recognized by Spanish Government: 523,000 (2017) Egyptian Sign Language: Arab sign-language family: Egypt: 474,000 (2014) [4] American Sign Language: Old French Sign Language and Martha's Vineyard Sign Language

  7. History of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), by Capt. John Smith, one of the first histories of Virginia. The written history of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 16th century, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples.

  8. Anglo-Powhatan Wars - Wikipedia

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    Red line shows boundary between the Virginia Colony and Tributary Indian tribes, as established by the Treaty of 1646; red dot shows Jamestown, capital of Virginia Colony In October 1646 the General Assembly of Virginia signed a peace treaty with Necotowance which brought the Third Anglo-Powhatan War to an end.

  9. Don Luis - Wikipedia

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    Don Luís did not turn himself over to the Spanish. [13] Before leaving the bay, Menéndez de Avilés had the remaining native hostages baptized and hanged from the ships' yards. During the expedition, 20 natives were killed. [14] [13] The failed attempt at establishing a mission in Virginia was the end of Spanish ventures to colonize the area.