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La Provincia - Diario de Las Palmas is a daily newspaper of the province of Las Palmas ( Canary Islands, Spain ). It is the result of the merger of the last Spanish evening paper, Diario de Las Palmas (1893), founded by Fernando de León y Castillo, and the morning paper La Provincia (1911) in January 2000. At that time both newspapers belonged ...
The Canary Islands (/ kəˈnɛəri /, Spanish: Canarias, Spanish: [kaˈnaɾjas]), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Morocco and the Western Sahara.
Isleños, other Spaniards, Madeirans, Portuguese, Berbers (Guanches) Canary Islanders, or Canarians (Spanish: canarios), are the people of the Canary Islands, an autonomous community of Spain near the coast of Northwest Africa. The distinctive variety of the Spanish language spoken in the region is known as habla canaria (Canary speech) or the ...
The news agencies of the time were places called mentideros [note 7] [10] in the Court: Gradas de San Felipe [note 8] —the stairs of the now-defunct Convento de San Felipe el Real next to the Puerta del Sol—which specialized in military affairs and weapons expertise, and was very close to the Calle del Correo street, where couriers arrived ...
Nivaria Tejera, the daughter of a Cuban mother and a Spanish father from the Canary Islands, [3] was born in Cuba in 1929. Before she was two, she moved with her parents to Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, where her father was taken prisoner at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He was not freed until 1944.
Elections. The Movement for the Self-Determination and Independence of the Canary Islands (Spanish: Movimiento por la Autodeterminación e Independencia del Archipiélago Canario, MPAIAC), was an independentist organization and socialist nature, founded in 1964 by Antonio Cubillo, whose objective was the secession of the Canary Islands from Spain.
Bethencourt Alfonso, J: Historia del Pueblo Guanche II Lemus editor, La Laguna, 1997. Berthelot, Sabino. Etnografía y Anales de la Conquista de Las Islas Canarias. Ed. Goya. Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 1978. ISBN 84-85437-00-4. Blanco, Joaquín. Breve Noticia Histórica de las Islas Canarias. Ed. Rueda. Madrid 1983. ISBN 84-7207-029-8.
An eruption at the Cumbre Vieja volcanic ridge, comprising the southern half of the Spanish island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, took place between 19 September and 13 December 2021. [7] It was the first volcanic eruption on the island since the eruption of Teneguía in 1971. [8] At 85 days, it is the longest known and the most damaging ...