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Corregimiento (Spanish: [korexiˈmjento]; Catalan: Corregiment, IPA: [kurəʒiˈmen]) is a Spanish term used for country subdivisions for royal administrative purposes, ensuring districts were under crown control as opposed to local elites.
Some Spanish exonyms are traditional, and are therefore preferred [by whom?] over newer exonyms or current or native placenames (for example Pekín over Beijing). In other cases newer names and exonyms are preferred for political or social reasons, even when a place has an older Spanish exonym (for example Bangladesh over Bengala). [1]
Barrio (Spanish pronunciation:) is a Spanish word that means "quarter" or "neighborhood".In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city delimited by functional (e.g. residential, commercial, industrial, etc.), social, architectural or morphological features. [1]
Greenhouses in Roquetas in 2004. Roquetas Pidgin Spanish is a Spanish-based pidgin spoken among agricultural workers in Roquetas de Mar in Spain. Immigrants attracted to work in the greenhouses of the area come from many countries in north and west Africa and eastern Europe, and few speak any Spanish before arrival.
Endonym: "Name of a geographical feature in an official or well-established language occurring in that area where the feature is located." Exonym : "Name used in a specific language for a geographical feature situated outside the area where that language is spoken, and differing in its form from the name used in an official or well-established ...
The Distrito Norte (Spanish: North District) occupies an area to the north of the Macarena on the east bank of the Guadalquivir. The Puente del Alamillo was built before Expo 92 to link across the river to the main Expo sites on the far north of the Isla de La Cartuja. Neighbourhoods
The Albaicín (Spanish pronunciation: [alβajˈθin]), also spelled Albayzín (from Arabic: ٱلْبَيّازِينْ, romanized: al-Bayyāzīn), is a neighbourhood of Granada, Spain. It is centered around a hill on the north side of the Darro River which passes through the city.
Because Spanish is a Romance language (which means it evolved from Latin), many of its words are either inherited from Latin or derive from Latin words. Although English is a Germanic language , it, too, incorporates thousands of Latinate words that are related to words in Spanish. [ 3 ]