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Mendes is a common Portuguese and Galician surname. Origin: Germanic patronym, (Son of Menendus, later Son of Mem). People.
Francisco Mendes (Tzemah Benveniste in Hebrew) was one of the wealthiest traders and bankers in Europe in the first half of the 16th century. He was the great-grandson of Abraham Benveniste. His family was forcibly converted Sephardic Jews known as Conversos (also called crypto-Jews, Marranos and secret Jews).
Méndez is a common Spanish surname to all of Germanic origin, [1] originally a patronymic, meaning Son of Mendo, Menendo, or Mem. A longer form sharing the same root is Menéndez, while the Portuguese form is Mendes. Méndez may refer to:
Mendes (Ancient Greek: Μένδης, gen.: Μένδητος ), the Greek name of the ancient Egyptian city of Djedet , also known in ancient Egypt as Per - Banebdjedet ("The Domain of the Ram Lord of Djedet ") and Anpet , is known today as Tell El-Ruba ( Arabic : تل الربع ).
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez (1879–1962), President of El Salvador twice, in 1934–1935 and 1944; Emilio Menéndez (born 1945), Spanish politician and member of the European Parliament
Shawn Peter Raul Mendes was born in Pickering, Ontario, on August 8, 1998, the son of English mother Karen (née Rayment) and Portuguese father Manuel Mendes.His mother is a real estate agent, while his father is a businessman from the Algarve who sells bar and restaurant supplies in Toronto. [5]
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
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