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The history of cartography refers to the development and consequences of cartography, or mapmaking technology, throughout human history. Maps have been one of the most important human inventions for millennia, allowing humans to explain and navigate their way through the world. When and how the earliest maps were made is unclear, but maps of ...
1984 (8th Session) Vatican City ( / ˈvætɪkən / ⓘ ), officially the Vatican City State ( Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano; [ f] Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae ), [ g][ h] is a landlocked sovereign country, [ 16][ 17] city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy. [ 18][ 19] It became independent from Italy in 1929 with ...
Monument in Pamplona Runners surround the bulls on Estafeta Street. A running of the bulls (Spanish: encierro, from the verb encerrar, 'to corral, to enclose'; Occitan: abrivado, literally 'haste, momentum'; Catalan: bous al carrer 'bulls in the street', or correbous 'bull-runner') is an event that involves running in front of a small group of bulls, typically six [1] but sometimes ten or more ...
The Instituto Geográfico Nacional ( IGN ), or National Geographic Institute is a Spanish government agency, dependent on the Spanish Ministry of Public Works. Founded in 1870, it is the national mapping agency for Spain, together with the Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica (CNIG). Since 2015, most of its products (including MTN50 and ...
In modern mapping, a topographic map or topographic sheet is a type of map characterized by large- scale detail and quantitative representation of relief features, usually using contour lines (connecting points of equal elevation), but historically using a variety of methods. Traditional definitions require a topographic map to show both ...
Guadalajara, Spain. / 40.6337111°N 3.1673944°W / 40.6337111; -3.1673944. Guadalajara ( / ˌɡwɑːdələˈhɑːrə / GWAH-də-lə-HAR-ə, Spanish: [ɡwaðalaˈxaɾa] ⓘ) [ 2] is a city and municipality in Spain, located in the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha. It is the capital of the Province of Guadalajara .
Lampasas County, Texas. Laredo, Texas ("scree") (Laredo city in Cantabria) Lavaca County, Texas ("La vaca", literally "the cow") Leon County, Florida (named for Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León; it is his surname, which means lion, as well as the name of a Spanish city, León, Spain. Leon County, Texas.
Ávila ( UK: / ˈævɪlə / AV-il-ə, [ 2 ] US: / ˈɑːv -/ AHV-, [ 3 ] [ˈaβila] ⓘ) is a city of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Ávila . It lies on the right bank of the Adaja river. Located more than 1,130 m above sea level, the city is ...