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Chalco de Díaz Covarrubias (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈt͡ʃaːɬko]) is a city that is municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of Chalco.It lies in the eastern part of the State of Mexico just east of the Federal District of Mexico and is considered part of the Mexico City metropolitan area.
Page 71 of the Codex Borgia, depicting the sun god, Tonatiuh. The Codex Borgia (The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Borg.mess.1), also known as Codex Borgianus, Manuscrit de Veletri [1] and Codex Yohualli Ehecatl, [2] is a pre-Columbian Middle American pictorial manuscript from Central Mexico featuring calendrical and ritual content, dating from the 16th century.
The Monastery of El Escorial, where the library is located. The main reasons for Philip II's idea of establishing a grand library in Spain were the following: . the humanist character of the king himself, a person with a strong intellectual formation, as well as a great bibliophile, who saw the impulse to build a library as natural.
[24] The conquest of the Muisca was the heaviest of all four Spanish expeditions to the great civilisations of the Americas. [25] More than 80 percent of the soldiers and horses that started the journey of a year to the northern Muisca Confederation didn't make it. [26] [27] [28] Various settlements were founded by the Spanish between 1537 and ...
In the county 18.90% of the population was under the age of 18, 5.40% was between the ages of 18 and 24, 20.40% between 25 and 44, 24.40% between 45 and 64, and 30.90% were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 50 years. For every 100 females there were 90.50 males. For every 100 females, age 18 and over, there were 87.50 males.
A Study of History is a 12-volume universal history by the British historian Arnold J. Toynbee, published from 1934 to 1961.It received enormous popular attention but according to historian Richard J. Evans, "enjoyed only a brief vogue before disappearing into the obscurity in which it has languished."
At this time this island was the center of piracy in the archipelago, and the visit of the Spanish vessel was to ascertain its means of defense. In 1848 the British-built steam gunboats El Cano, Magallanes , and Reina de Castilla , with three barkentines, carrying three companies of troops, went to Balanguingui , which was still a center of piracy.