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Bernardo de Vargas Machuca was born in Simancas, a town in the present-day Province of Valladolid, in 1555 (some sources say 1557), to Juan Vargas, warden of the castle in that town, and Angela de Soto. [1] He completed his studies in the city of Valladolid, enlisting at a very early age in the Spanish Army.
Machu Picchu [a] is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). [9] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", [10] it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire.
Machuca is a 2004 internationally co-produced coming-of-age drama film co-written and directed by Andrés Wood. [2] It stars Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna , Manuela Martelli , and Aline Küppenheim alongside Federico Luppi .
Pedro Machuca (c. 1490 in Toledo, Spain – 1550 in Granada) is mainly remembered as the Spanish architect responsible for the design of the Palace of Charles V (begun 1528) adjacent to the Alcazar in Granada.
The Agency for Language Development and Cultivation (Indonesian: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa), formerly the Language and Book Development Agency (Badan Pengembangan Bahasa dan Perbukuan) and the Language Centre (Pusat Bahasa), is the institution responsible for standardising and regulating the Indonesian language as well as maintaining the indigenous languages of Indonesia.
Larantuka Malay (bahasa Nagi, Melayu Larantuka), also known as Nagi, [3] is a Malay-based creole language spoken in the eastern part of Flores in Indonesia, especially in Larantuka. It is a derivative of Malay which is thought to originate from Malacca. [1] It is a language with unspecified linguistic affiliation.
In the 1990s, tourism was a directorate general within the Department of Tourism, Posts and Telecommunications (Indonesian: Departemen Pariwisata, Pos dan Telekomunikasi) which concerned with administration of postal and telecommunication as well., [1] not a standalone department/ministry yet.
Some languages, like Buginese (five million speakers) and Makassarese (two million speakers), are widely distributed and vigorously used. Many of the languages with much smaller numbers of speakers are also still vigorously spoken, but some languages are almost extinct, because language use of the ethnic population has shifted to the dominant regional language, e.g. in the case of Ponosakan ...