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Hispanicized and pluralized form of vatan, the indigenous name for the province's main island, of obscure origin, similar to the etymology of Bataan above. The term batang has cognates across various Austronesian languages, mostly being a word that means "the main part of something," such as "trunk" or "body" [16] (see Batangas below). On a ...
The town and its region (Γραϊκή, Graïkē) have been derived from the word γραῖα graia "old woman" which in its turn comes from the Proto-Indo-European language root *ǵerh 2-/*ǵreh 2-, "to grow old" via Proto-Greek *gera-/grau-iu; [224] the same root later gave γέρας geras (/keras/), "gift of honour" in Mycenean Greek. [225]
Cruz is a surname of Iberian origin, first found in Castile, [citation needed] Spain, but later spread throughout the territories of the former Spanish and Portuguese Empires. In Spanish and Portuguese, the word means "cross", either the Christian cross or the figure of transecting lines or ways.
Binondo, Santa Cruz and Quiapo, Manila: Marcelo de Azcárraga Palmero (1832–1915) 13th prime minister of Spain (1897–1900) and the only Spanish prime minister of Filipino descent. The street was later renamed to Recto Avenue in 1961, after Filipino senator and nationalist Claro Mayo Recto (1890–1960). [5] Paseo de Benavides Binondo and ...
Although several travelers who visited the Holy Land during the 12–14th centuries (e.g. Riccoldo da Monte di Croce, Burchard of Mount Sion, and James of Verona), mention a "Via Sacra", i.e. a settled route that pilgrims followed, there is nothing in their accounts to identify this with the Way of the Cross, as we understand it. [15]
Achadas da Cruz, parish in the district of Porto Moniz, Madeira; Cruz, Vila Nova de Famalicão, parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão; Porto da Cruz, parish in the district of Machico, Madeira; Puerto Rico Cruz, Moca, Puerto Rico, barrio in the municipality of Moca, in Puerto Rico; Spain: Puerto de la Cruz, a city on the island ...
De la Cruz, Aldo Alván (2008), "Geología de Ocucaje: aportes en la sedimentología y paleontología de Lomas de Ullujaya (Ica, Perú)" (PDF), Revista del Instituto de Investigaciones FIGMMG, 11: 51–59
Andrés de Santa Cruz (1792-1865), president of Peru and Bolivia; José Santacruz Londoño (1943–1996), a Colombian drug lord; Lorenzo Carbonell Santacruz (1883–1968), mayor of Alicante, 1931–1936; Manuel Santa Cruz Loidi (1842-1926), Spanish Carlist guerilla leader and missionary