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A brief account of Magellan's 1519-1522 voyage around the world, which proved beyond all doubt that the world was round. ... Read more

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The myths of settlement of the Great Plains usually conjure up images of Anglo-American pioneers moving into a sea of grass, opposed by Native peoples. Such myths leave out the considerable influence of Spain. Spain and the Plains corrects this error, revealing the Plains as a northern frontier of New Spain, a frontier antedating the northern European presence in North America, and a frontier where Spanish and Native peoples met, clashed, and blended.

Spain and the Plains introduces and documents Spanish exploration of and migration to the Plains, examines the myths that shaped Spanish exploration and the pragmatic realities of exploration and settlement, and documents racism and misrepresentation that Hispanic groups encountered in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors show how early explorers, shaped by the intellectual context of the Renaissance, sought mythical locales: the fountain of youth, the straits of Anian, and the city of Quivira. They describe how exploration shifted to emphasize military and economic gains in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Essays portray the diaspora of Spanish settlers and reconstruct daily life in their settlements on the Plains.

This unique collection paints a clear picture of a crucial but often misrepresented and neglected era in American and Spanish history.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sagres is a town located in the municipality of Vila do Bispo, Algarve, Portugal. It has a surface of 34,28 km² and a population of 1 939 (in 2001). The Sagres Point, historically connected to the Portuguese Age of Discovery, is located there. Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) lived and died in Sagres. The population in 2004 was 2,329 and the area is 149.37 km². The elevation is 419 m. ... Read more

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Chapters: Iberian Peninsula. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Iberian Peninsula is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day states Portugal, Spain, Andorra, the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar and a very small area of France. It is the westernmost of the three major southern European peninsulasthe Iberian, Italian, and Balkan peninsulas. It is bordered on the southeast and east by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the north, west and southwest by the Atlantic Ocean. The Pyrenees form the northeast edge of the peninsula, separating it from the rest of Europe. In the south, it approaches the northern coast of Africa. It is the second-largest peninsula in Europe, with an area of 582,860 square kilometres (225,040 sq mi). The English word Iberia was adapted from the use of the Ancient Greek word (Ibría) by the Greek geographers under the Roman Empire to refer to what is known today in English as the Iberian Peninsula. The name was not then used to mean a single political country or a population speaking a single language. Strabo's Iberia was delineated from Keltik by the Pyrenees and included the entire land mass south (he mistakenly said west) of there. The Ancient Greeks discovered Iberia by voyaging westward. Hecataeus of Miletus was the first known to use the term around 500 BC. Herodotus of Halicarnassus says of the Phocaeans that "it was they who made the Greeks acquainted with ... Iberia." According to Strabo prior historians used Iberia to mean the country "this side of the (Ibros)" as far north as the Rhone river in France but currently they set the Pyrenees as the limit. Polybius respects that limit but identifies Iberia as the Mediterranean side as far south as Gibraltar, with the Atlantic side having no n...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14883 ... Read more

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Introduces through text and photographs the land, history, government, people, and economy of this Iberian country. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fátima is a town in Portugal famous for the religious visions that reportedly took place there in 1917. The town itself has a population of 7,756 and is located in the municipality of Ourém, in the Centro Region and sub region of Médio Tejo. It is in the district of Santarém and is included in the urban agglomeration of Leiria, in central Portugal, 187 km (116 mi) south of Porto and 123 km (76 mi) north of Lisbon. The name of the town (formerly a small village) comes from the Arabic name Fatima. Fátima is famous for the shrine called the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, built to commemorate the events of 1917 when three peasant children claimed to have seen the "Virgin of the Rosary", Our Lady of Fátima. When the children asked for her name, she said "I am The Lady of The Rosary". The children experienced the purported Marian apparitions in a pasture called the Cova da Iria. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abul ist neben Ilha do Pessegueiro die einzige phönizische Handelsniederlassung, die bisher an der portugiesischen Küste entdeckt wurde. Sie liegt im Trichter des Rio Sado, in der Nähe von Alcácer do Sal südöstlich von Setubal. Die seit den 1990er Jahren laufenden Grabungen erbrachten Grundrisse eines zweiphasigen Gebäudekomplexes. Der Mauerverlauf der ältesten Anlage konnte nicht festgestellt werden. In der zweiten Phase war eine Fläche von etwa 500 m² von einer 1,0 m bis 1,5 m starken Mauer umgeben, an die kleinere Räume angrenzten. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Kingdomof Portugal was Portugal's generaldesignation under the monarchy. The kingdom was locatedin the west of the Iberian Peninsula, Europe and existed from1139 to 1910. It was replaced by the Portuguese First Republic after the Lisbon Regicide (1908) andultimately, the 5 October 1910 revolution. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Biography ... Read more

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Describes the fifteenth century voyages taken by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama who furthered his nation's power by expanding trade routes to India. ... Read more

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With the combined information from GIS and satelliteremote sensing with gound data, this research hasdeveloped a water balance model of the Roxocatchment (Portugal) by using Thornthwaite-Mathermethod based on the recent climatological data (2001- 2003) in order to assess available water for theirrigation. The study shows that depleted fractionduring May-September, which is the core irrigationseason, is around or higher than 1. This indicatesthe short supply of irrigation to the crops. Variousirrigation performance indicators also describesthat none of the major crops in the Roxo irrigationcommand area has a sufficient supply of water. TheSurface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL) isapplied to calculate acutual evapotranspiration byusing four Landsat and eleven Modis images.Estimation of actual evapotranspiration from theSEBAL algorithm is the most crucial part in thestudy of irrigation performance and water balance asit can map the spatial and temporal structure ofevapotranspiration for every landcover type. ... Read more

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Each of the "Frommer" guides are packed with reliable, money-saving advice that travellers will find invaluable - whether they're travelling on a shoestring or staying at the Ritz. The detailed pre-trip planning information includes transportation advice, suggested itineraries and a calendar of special events. Exact prices, not vague price ranges, let readers carefully plan their daily budgets. This book on Spain contains advice on getting there - by plane, train, bus or car - as well as information on British customs allowances, UK embassy locations and a currency chart that compares the British pound to the local currency is included. ... Read more

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For many, the image of Spain is the Costa del Sol with its huge hotels, crowded beaches, "English food served" signs, evening entertainments of "typical" flamenco shows, sangria and tasteless paella. Most visitors know little more of Spain than this, but beyond the Meditteranean coast there is a very different country - a country with a variety of scenery ranging from mountains and lakes to semi-desert, a country with a rich and complex history and culture which have left their monuments, a country which is also perhaps the most dynamic in Western Europe. "Coping with Spain" is designed for those who want to venture beyond the coast and into a land which is a blend of the traditional and the ultra-modern. The delight of travelling around Spain is that there are still relatively few who do so and in a day one can travel from the high-tech life of a modern city to regions so distant from the mainstream of modern life that the visitor genuinely has the experience of exploring."Coping with Spain" aims to give a general orientation to the country, travel, accommodation, cuisine, wines, traditional festivities, the natural world, how to make the most of even brief contacts with Spaniards and how to solve practical problems while there. ... Read more