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Cervera
Cervera is the capital of the comarca of Segarra, in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. The title Comte de Cervera is a courtesy title, formerly part of the Crown of Aragon, that has been revived for Leonor, Princess of Asturias.
Pascual Cervera y Topete
Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete was a prominent Spanish naval officer with the rank of Almirante (admiral) who served in a number of high positions within the Spanish Navy and had fought in several wars during the 19th century. Having served in Morocco, the Philippines, and Cuba, he went on to be Spain's naval minister, chief of naval staff, naval attachΓ© in London, the captain of several warships, and most notably, commander of the Cuba Squadron during the SpanishβAmerican War.
Cervera de los Montes
Cervera de los Montes is a municipality located in the province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2006 census, the municipality has a population of 329 inhabitants.
Cervera de Pisuerga
Cervera de Pisuerga is a municipality located in the province of Palencia, Castile and LeΓ³n, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality had a population of 2,679 inhabitants.
Cervera de la CaΓ±ada
Cervera de la CaΓ±ada is a municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2011 census , the municipality has a population of 319 inhabitants.
Cervera (disambiguation)
Cervera may refer to:
Cervera de Buitrago
Cervera de Buitrago is a municipality of the autonomous community of Madrid in central Spain. It belongs to the comarca of Sierra Norte.
Cervera Mountains
The Cervera Mountains is an 18.8 km (12 mi) long mountain range in the Baix Maestrat comarca, Valencian Community, Spain. In some ancient texts these mountains are known as Serra d'en Menor.
Cervera del Maestre
Cervera del Maestre is a municipality in the comarca of Baix Maestrat in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is located at the southern end of the Cervera Mountains, above the Rambla de Cervera seasonal river.
Cervera del RΓo Alhama
Cervera del RΓo Alhama is a town in the province and autonomous community of La Rioja, Spain. The municipality covers an area of 152.56 square kilometres and as of 2011 had a population of 2704 people.
Maria de Fonseca
Maria de Fonseca was the great wife of Msiri, the powerful warrior-king of Katanga, at the time when the Stairs Expedition arrived in 1891 to take possession of the territory for the Belgian King Leopold II, with or without Msiri's consent.Msiri typically cemented alliances with trading partners by marriage. Maria was the daughter of mixed Portuguese-African parents from Angola, and was also the sister of Coimbra, the first trader to supply him with gunpowder from the west coast, the key to Msiri's power.In 1891, Maria was about forty-five years old and Msiri, about sixty, and had been ruler of Katanga for thirty years.
Revolution of Maria da Fonte
The Revolution of Maria da Fonte, or Revolution of the Minho, is the name given to a popular revolt in the spring of 1846 against the Cartista government of Portugal . The revolt resulted from social tensions remaining from the Liberal Wars, exacerbated by great popular discontent generated by new military recruitment laws, fiscal alterations and the prohibition on burials inside churches.
Maria da Fonte anthem
The "Maria da Fonte anthem" , also known as the "Anthem of Minho" (Portuguese: Hino do Minho) is a Portuguese patriotic anthem, written in 1846 by Angelo Frondoni with lyrics by Paulo Midosi, following the popularly-called Revolution of Maria da Fonte.