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Before 1768: An enlargeable territorial map of California tribal groups and languages prior to European contact within the modern day borders. Before 1768: An enlargeable map of the world showing the dividing lines for; Pope Alexander VI's Inter caetera papal bull (1493), the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), and the Treaty of Saragossa (1529).
Before Europeans landed in North America, about one-third of all natives in what is now the United States were living in the area that is now California. [2] California indigenous language diversity numbered 80 to 90 languages and dialects, some surviving to the present although endangered. [3] Native American shell fish hook from California.
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
The Tajik Government ceded 1,158 km 2 to the PRC, while PRC relinquished its 73,000 km 2 claim over the remaining territory with final ratification of a treaty in January 2011. [89] [note 2] However, the settlement is not recognized by the Republic of China, which would claim its westernmost point to be at 71°E along the Panj. [note 2] Paracel ...
The oceans of Europa may be habitable, according to a new model developed by NASA. This moon — 3,100 km (1,900 miles) in diameter — is the fourth-largest moon orbiting Jupiter.
Northern California usually refers to the state's northernmost 48 counties. The main population centers of Northern California include San Francisco Bay Area (which includes the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and the largest city of the region, San Jose), and Sacramento (the state capital) as well as its metropolitan area.
It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California to the south. With over 39 million residents across an area of 163,696 square miles (423,970 km 2), it is the most populous U.S. state, the third-largest by area, and most populated subnational entity in ...
A declaration by the Polish Underground State in that period called for the creation of a Central and Eastern European federal union undominated by any one state. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] On 12 May 2011, the Visegrád Group countries ( The Republic of Poland , the Czech Republic , the Slovak Republic , and Hungary ) announced the formation of a Visegrád ...