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father. The Díez de la Cortina [2] family originated from Cantabria, related to the town of Liébana; the first representative is noted in the 16th century. [3] Modest members of the hidalguia, none of the family grew into a public figure until in the mid-18th century one of its branches moved to the Andalusian Marchena; [4] they settled as arrendatarios in estates of Duque de Osuna.
Portrait of Gaspar de Bracamonte, 3rd Count of Peñaranda by Gerard ter Borch (ca. 1645–48). Gaspar de Bracamonte at the Peace of Westphalia , engraving after Anselm van Hulle . Gaspar de Bracamonte y Guzmán, 3rd Count of Peñaranda ( Spanish : Gaspar de Bracamonte y Guzmán, tercer Conde de Peñaranda ) (c. 1595 – 14 December 1676) was a ...
Tierra de Peñaranda is a comarca in the province of Salamanca, Castile and León.It contains 19 municipalities: Alaraz, Alconada, Aldeaseca de la Frontera, Bóveda del Río Almar, Cantaracillo, El Campo de Peñaranda, Macotera, Malpartida, Mancera de Abajo, Nava de Sotrobal, Paradinas de San Juan, Peñaranda de Bracamonte, Rágama, Salmoral, Santiago de la Puebla, Tordillos, Ventosa del Río ...
The line of longitude running through El Hierro (Ferro), the westernmost of the Canary Islands, was known in European history as the prime meridian in common use outside of the future British Empire. Already in the 2nd century A.D., Ptolemy considered a definition of the zero meridian based on the westernmost position of the known world, [ 1 ...
Una miliciana en la Columna de Hierro: María "la Jabalina" (in Spanish). Universitat de València. ISBN 978-8437066561. Mainar Cabanes, Eladi (1998). De milicians a soldats: les columnes valencianes en la Guerra Civil espanyola, 1936-1937 (in Catalan). Universitat de València. ISBN 8437033497. Manzanera, Elías (2006).
Peñaranda de Bracamonte is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, Western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon.It is located 40 kilometres (25 mi) from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 6320 people.
The Cortina Troubles is the generic name for the First Cortina War, from 1859 to 1860, and the Second Cortina War, in 1861, in which paramilitary forces led by the Mexican rancher and local leader Juan Cortina, confronted elements of the United States Army, the Confederate States Army, the Texas Rangers, and the local militias of Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas.