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Port Royal (Jamaican Patois: Puat Rayal) is a town located at the end of the Palisadoes, at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica.Founded in 1494 by the Spanish, it was once the largest and most prosperous city in the Caribbean, functioning as the centre of shipping and commerce in the Caribbean Sea by the latter half of the 17th century. [1]
Port-Royal National Historic Site is a National Historic Site [1] [2] located on the north bank of the Annapolis Basin in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia, Canada.The site is the location of the Habitation at Port-Royal, [3] which was the centre of activity for the New France colony of Port Royal in Acadia from 1605 to 1613, when it was destroyed by English forces from the Colony of Virginia.
Operated as Musée de Port-Royal, the 30-hectare estate includes the ruins of the abbey and its outbuildings. A 17th-century building houses the Musée national de Port-Royal des Champs, which exhibits 17th- and 18th-century paintings and engravings.
The Cartesian Semantics of the Port-Royal Logic is a scholarly work by John N. Martin, first published in 2019 by Routledge. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the semantics of the Port-Royal Logic (La Logique ou l’Art de penser), a key 17th-century text written by Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole, which significantly influenced the development of logic and philosophy in the ...
The maison des Solitaires, at Les Granges de Port-Royal-des-Champs. During the 17th century, the Solitaires were Frenchmen who chose to live a humble and ascetic life in retreat at Port-Royal-des-Champs. One of the most typical movements of 17th century France, it was closely linked to Jansenism.
Port Royal was devastated by a fire in 1703 and a hurricane in 1722. Most of the sea trade moved to Kingston. ... In the mid-17th century, sugarcane had been brought ...
During the 17th-century formulary controversy and the persecution of Port-Royal (1648–1652), [4] she was forced to sign a document condemning the five propositions of Jansenism. She stepped down as abbess in 1630.
Port Royal is an incorporated town in Caroline County, Virginia, United States.The population was 126 at the 2010 census. [5]Port Royal was established in the mid-17th century in the Colony of Virginia primarily as a port at the head of the navigable reach of the Rappahannock River for export of tobacco, Virginia's cash crop.