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Don Juan (Spanish: [doŋ ˈxwan]), also known as Don Giovanni , is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. The original version of the story of Don Juan appears in the 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina.
Trinidad, Washington, D.C., neighborhood located in Ward 5, in the northeast quadrant of Washington, D.C. (the area got its name from 19th century speculator James Barry, who had once lived on the Caribbean island, whose name is of Spanish origin.
Frontispiece illustration of a bust of Lord Byron in the 1824 edition of Don Juan. (Benbow publisher) Byron was a prolific writer, for whom "the composition of his great poem, Don Juan, was coextensive with a major part of his poetical life"; he wrote the first canto while resident in Italy in 1818, and the 17th canto in early 1823. [3]
Ponce (US: / ˈ p ɔː n s eɪ, ˈ p oʊ n-/ PAWN-say, POHN-, UK: / ˈ p ɒ n-/ PON-, Spanish: ⓘ) is a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico. [25] The most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, Ponce was founded on August 12, 1692 [note 1] [26] [20] [27] [17] and is named after Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, [28] the great-grandson of Spanish ...
On 19 November 1493 he landed on the island, naming it San Juan Bautista in honor of Saint John the Baptist. The first Spanish settlement, Caparra , was founded on 8 August 1508 by Juan Ponce de León , a lieutenant under Columbus, who later became the first governor of the island. [ 5 ]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 December 2024. Capital and largest city of Puerto Rico Capital city and Municipality in Puerto Rico, United States San Juan Municipio Autónomo de San Juan Capital city and Municipality Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Santurce, San Juan Bay, and Old San Juan from San Cristóbal Fortress Old San ...
Columbus named the island San Juan Bautista, in honor of Saint John the Baptist, while the capital city was named Ciudad de Puerto Rico ("Rich Port City"). [21] Eventually traders and other maritime visitors came to refer to the entire island as Puerto Rico, while San Juan became the name used for the main trading/shipping port and the capital ...
San Juan Island is the second-largest and most populous of the San Juan Islands in northwestern Washington, United States. It has a land area of 142.59 km 2 (55.053 sq mi) and a population of 8,632 [ 2 ] as of the 2020 census .