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Simón Bolívar was born in Caracas in the Captaincy General of Venezuela into a wealthy family of American-born Spaniards but lost both parents as a child. Bolívar was educated abroad and lived in Spain, as was common for men of upper-class families in his day.
Portrait of Simón Bolívar in the house. The house on San Jacinto Street was completed in the 1640s. [4] Bolivar was born to Doña María de la Concepción Palacios y Blanco and Coronel Don Juan Vicente Bolívar y Ponte in the bedroom here on 24 July 1783, and was the fourth child of the aristocratic couple of the Creole family who had migrated from Spain 200 years earlier.
In Hispanic America, criollo (Spanish pronunciation:) is a term used originally to describe people of full Spanish descent born in the viceroyalties.In different Latin American countries, the word has come to have different meanings, mostly referring to the local-born majority.
Simón Bolívar was an important leader in the development of Creole Nationalism in Venezuela. The term Creole nationalism or Criollo nationalism refers to the ideology that emerged in independence movements among the Criollos (descendants of the European colonizers), especially in Latin America in the early 19th century. Creole nationalists ...
The English word creole derives from the French créole, which in turn came from Portuguese crioulo, a diminutive of cria meaning a person raised in one's house.Cria is derived from criar, meaning "to raise or bring up", itself derived from the Latin creare, meaning "to make, bring forth, produce, beget"; which is also the source of the English word "create".
Spaniards born in the colonies of the New World that today comprises the Hispanic America are called criollos (individuals of full Spanish descent born in the New World). Higher offices in Spanish America and the Spanish Philippines were held by peninsulares.
A notable Creole family was that of Andrea Dimitry. Dimitry was a Greek immigrant who married Marianne Céleste Dragon, a woman of African and Greek ancestry, around 1799. Their son, Creole author and educator Alexander Dimitry, was the first person of color to represent the United States as Ambassador to Costa Rica and Nicaragua. He was also ...
Mantuano is a denomination assigned, first in Caracas and later in the rest of Venezuela, to the blancos criollos (white creole) belonging to the local aristocracy. [1] [2] The term was in use from the 18th century until well into the 19th century. [1] The mantuanos hardly surpassed a hundred heads of family by the end of the 18th century. [1]