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Mérida (Spanish: ⓘ) is a city and municipality of Spain, part of the Province of Badajoz, and capital of the autonomous community of Extremadura. Located in the western-central part of the Iberian Peninsula at 217 metres above sea level, the city is crossed by the Guadiana and Albarregas rivers. The population was 60,119 in 2017.
The city's rich cultural heritage is a product of the syncretism of the Maya and Spanish cultures during the colonial era. The Cathedral of Mérida, Yucatán was built in the late 16th century with stones from nearby Maya ruins and is the oldest cathedral in the mainland Americas. [6] The city has the third largest old town district on the ...
Following is a list of placenames of Scottish origin which have subsequently been applied to parts of the United States by Scottish emigrants or explorers. There are some common suffixes. Brae in Scottish means "hillside" or "river-bank". Burgh, alternatively spelled Burg, means "city" or "town".
Map of Mexico with Yucatán highlighted. Yucatán is a state in southeastern Mexico that is divided into 106 municipalities, organized into 7 administrative regions.According to the 2020 Mexican census, it is the twenty-second most populated state with 2,320,898 inhabitants and the 20th largest by land area spanning 39,524.4 square kilometres (15,260.5 sq mi).
Mérida, Mérida, the capital city of the state of Mérida, Venezuela; Merida, Leyte, Philippines, a municipality in the province of Leyte; Mérida, Spain, the capital city of the autonomous community of Extremadura; Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, the capital city of the state of Yucatán; Merida or Marida, an ancient name for Mardin, Turkey
[38] [39] [40] Furthermore, a 2016 study also found that Bronze Age remains from Rathlin Island in Ireland dating to over 4,000 years ago were most genetically similar to modern Irish, Scottish and Welsh, and that the core of the genome of insular Celtic populations was established by this time.
The southern South Island of New Zealand was settled by the Free Church of Scotland, and many of its placenames are of Scottish Gaelic origin (including some directly named for places in Scotland). The placename Strath Taieri combines the Gaelic Srath with the Māori river name Taieri and similarly, the mountain range Ben Ohau combines the ...
Mérida Municipality is one of the 106 municipalities in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing (858.41 km 2) of land with the head or seat being the city of Mérida. Because the archaeological remains of the Maya reminded the Spaniards of the ancient city of Mérida, Spain , which was marked by Roman archaeological sites , they renamed the ...