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Country: Spain: Autonomous community: Cantabria: Founded: ... Santander notably houses the headquarters of multinational bank Banco Santander, which was founded there.
Banco Santander was founded in 1857 as Banco de Santander. [8] ... In October 2013, Santander acquired 51% of Spain's largest consumer finance business, ...
1929 – Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital founded. 1937 – August: Nationalists in power. [7] 1940 – Population: 101,793. [4] 1941 – Fire. [3] 1946 – Manuel González-Mesones becomes mayor. 1952 – Festival Internacional de Santander active. 1970 – Population: 149,704. [4] 1972 – University of Santander established.
Forty-five years before the founding of Sovereign Bank, its future parent was founded as Banco Santander on 15 May 1857, with the approval of Queen Isabel II of Spain. [9] The bank grew and in the 1920s started to build a network of branches. In 1942 it opened in Madrid.
Cantabria (/ k æ n ˈ t eɪ b r i ə /, [5] also UK: /-ˈ t æ b-/; [6] [7] Spanish: [kanˈtaβɾja] ⓘ) is an autonomous community and province in northern Spain with Santander as its capital city. It is called a comunidad histórica, a historic community, in its current Statute of Autonomy. [8]
Location of Spain. Spain is a sovereign state located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southern Europe. It is a middle power and a major developed country [1] with the world's fourteenth largest economy by nominal GDP and sixteenth largest by purchasing power parity.
Nuevo Santander (New Santander) was a region of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, covering the modern Mexican state of Tamaulipas and extending into modern-day southern Texas in the United States. [ 1 ] Nuevo Santander was named after Santander, Cantabria , Spain , and settled by Spanish American colonists in a concerted settlement campaign peaking ...
Santander, Spain, a port city and capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain; Santander Department, a department of Colombia; Santander State, former state of Colombia; Santander de Quilichao, a municipality in the Cauca Department of Colombia; Santander, Cebu, a municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines