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  2. Conquest (1937 film) - Wikipedia

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    Conquest (also called Marie Walewska) is a 1937 American historical-drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen. It was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .

  3. Spanish literature - Wikipedia

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    The Roman conquest and occupation of the Iberian Peninsula beginning in the 3rd century BC brought a Latin culture to Spanish territories. The Muslim conquest in 711 CE brought the cultures of West Asia and the North Africa to the peninsula, creating Andalusi literary traditions. [1]

  4. List of English words of Spanish origin - Wikipedia

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    via American English from Spanish lazo meaning "tie; or rope" ultimately from Latin laqueum, "noose, snare." [16] Latino English short for the Spanish word latinoamericano, formed by latino "related to the Latin empire and language" and americano "from the Americas" llama via Spanish llama, from Quechua llama Llanos

  5. How Aztec Mexico was lost in translation: a wild novel ... - AOL

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    In Spanish, the book is called “Tu sueño imperios han sido” — a line borrowed from a baroquely beautiful poem that means “your dreams empires have been.”

  6. La Araucana - Wikipedia

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    La Araucana (also known in English as The Araucaniad) is a 16th-century epic poem [1] in Spanish by Alonso de Ercilla, about the Spanish Conquest of Chile. [2] It was considered the national epic of the Captaincy General of Chile and one of the most important works of the Spanish Golden Age ( Siglo de Oro ). [ 3 ]

  7. List of Spanish words of various origins - Wikipedia

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    sah = shah شاه shāh, from Old Persian 𐏋 χšāyaþiya (="king"), from an Old Persian verb meaning "to rule" Teherán = Tehran (تهران Tehrân, Iranian capital), from Persian words "Tah" meaning "end or bottom" and "Rân" meaning "[mountain] slope"—literally, bottom of the mountain slope.

  8. Spanish-language literature - Wikipedia

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    Spanish-language literature or Hispanic literature is the sum of the literary works written in the Spanish language across the Hispanic world. The principal elements are the Spanish literature of Spain, and Latin American literature .

  9. Conquistador - Wikipedia

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    Spanish conquistador in the Pavilion of Navigation in Seville, Spain. Spanish conquistadors in the Americas made extensive use of swords, pikes, and crossbows, with arquebuses becoming widespread only from the 1570s. [115] A scarcity of firearms did not prevent conquistadors to pioneer the use of mounted arquebusiers, an early form of dragoon ...