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Tortuga Island [1] [2] (French: Île de la Tortue, IPA: [il də la tɔʁty]; Haitian Creole: Latòti; Spanish: Isla Tortuga, IPA: [ˈisla toɾˈtuɣa], Turtle Island) is a Caribbean island that forms part of Haiti, off the northwest coast of Hispaniola.
Dry Tortugas National Park is a national park of the United States located about 68 miles (109 km) west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, in the United States.The park preserves Fort Jefferson and the several Dry Tortugas islands, the westernmost and most isolated of the Florida Keys.
Tortuga, Tortuga Isle, or Tortuga Island may refer to: . Tortuga (Haiti), a Caribbean island that forms part of Haiti La Tortuga Island, Venezuela, an uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea
The first massacre occurred on February 4, 2009, when a FARC guerrilla group entered the village Tortugal. FARC accused the Awás of collaborating with the Armed Forces of Colombia. [2] These accusations led to the torture [3] and killing of seventeen Awás, eight of whom were killed with knives, according to a witness who managed to escape. [2]
Administrative center of the district is the town of Las Juntas. Other villages are Blanco, Concepción, Coyolito (partly), Chiqueros, Desjarretado, Huacas (partly ...
Islands in the Algarve Region include: . Ilha da Barreta; Ilha da Culatra; Ilha de Armona; Ilha de Cabanas; Ilha de Cacela; Ilha de Tavira; Ilhéu da Geada; Ilhéu da Margalha; Ilhéu das Alturas
At the start of World War II in 1939, the Portuguese Government announced on 1 September that the 550-year-old Anglo-Portuguese Alliance remained intact, but since the British did not seek Portuguese assistance, Portugal was free to remain neutral in the war and would do so.
Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson.Over the course of its first two decades, starting from the release of its first recordings in January 1948, [3] Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most important American labels, specializing in jazz, R&B, and soul by Aretha Franklin ...