Don Luis Enríquez de Guzmán, Marquis of Villaflor and 9th Count of Alba de Liste (Spanish: Don Luis Enríquez de Guzmán, marqués de Villaflor y noveno conde de Alba de Liste; also sometimes, Luis Henríquez de Guzmán, conde de Alba de Aliste) (born c. 1605) was viceroy of New Spain
New Spain from June 28, 1650 to August 14, 1653 and thereafter viceroy of Peru, from February 24, 1655 to December 31, 1661).Contents1 In Spain 2 In New Spain 3 In Peru 4 References 5 External linksIn Spain[edit] Don Luis Enríquez de Guzmán was the ninth conde de Alba de Liste. He was a lieutenant and police officer in Zamora and mayor of Sacas. He also held other posts in government service, and was made a Knight Commander in the Order of Calatrava. In New Spain[edit] He was named viceroy of New Spain
New Spain on May 28, 1648, under King Philip IV of Spain
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The Spanish language
Spanish language (/ˈspænɪʃ/ ( listen); Español (help·info)), also called the Castilian language[4] (/kæˈstɪliən/ ( listen), castellano (help·info)), is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain
Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin
Latin America and Spain. It is usually considered the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese.[5][6][7][8][9] Spanish is a part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin
Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire
Western Roman Empire in the 5th century
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Yucatán
Yucatán (Spanish pronunciation: [ɟ͡ʝukaˈtan] ( listen)), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán
Yucatán (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Yucatán), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 106 municipalities, and its capital city is Mérida. It is located on the north part of the Yucatán
Yucatán Peninsula. It is bordered by the states of Campeche
Campeche to the southwest and Quintana Roo to the southeast, with the Gulf of Mexico
Mexico off its north coast. Before the arrival of Spaniards
Spaniards to the Yucatán
Yucatán Peninsula, the name of this region was Mayab.[12] In the Mayan language, "ma' ya'ab" is translated as "a few"
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Charles II of Spain
Charles II of Spain (Spanish: Carlos II; 6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700) was the last Habsburg
Habsburg ruler of the Spanish Empire. Known as "the Bewitched" (Spanish: el Hechizado),[1] he is now best remembered for his extensive physical, intellectual, and emotional disabilities and the war that followed his death. He died childless in 1700, all potential Habsburg
Habsburg successors having predeceased him
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Montesclaros is a municipality located in the province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
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Philip III (Spanish: Felipe; 14 April 1578 – 31 March 1621) was King of Spain. He was also, as Philip II, King of Portugal, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia and Duke of Milan
Duke of Milan from 1598 until his death. A member of the House of Habsburg, Philip III was born in Madrid
Madrid to King Philip II of Spain
Philip II of Spain and his fourth wife and niece Anna, the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II and Maria of Spain. Philip III later married his cousin Margaret of Austria, sister of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor. Although also known in Spain
Spain as Philip the Pious,[1] Philip's political reputation abroad has been largely negative – an 'undistinguished and insignificant man,' a 'miserable monarch,' whose 'only virtue appeared to reside in a total absence of vice,' to quote historians C. V. Wedgwood, R. Stradling and J. H
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A Coruña
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A Coruña (Galician: [a koˈɾuɲa], Spanish: La Coruña [la koˈɾuɲa], English: Corunna, archaically The Groyne) is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. It is the second most populated city in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country. The city is the provincial capital of the province of the same name, having also served as political capital of the Kingdom of Galicia[1][2] from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and as a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982, before being replaced by Santiago de Compostela. A Coruña
A Coruña is a busy port located on a promontory in the Golfo Ártabro, a large gulf on the Atlantic Ocean
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Martin
Martin may refer to:Contents1 People1.1 In fiction2 Places2.1 Europe2.1.1 Croatia 2.1.2 England 2.1.3 Slovakia 2.1.4 Spain 2.1.5 Switzerland2.2 North America2.2.1 Canada 2.2.2 Haiti 2.2.3 United States2.3 Southern hemisphere2.3.1 Antarctica 2.3.2 Australia2.4 Other places3 Media 4 Music4.1 People 4.2 Songs5 Other uses 6 Other forms and similar namesPeople[edit]
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Charles V (Spanish: Carlos; German: Karl; Italian: Carlo; Latin: Carolus; Dutch: Karel; French: Charles, [a] 24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was ruler of both the Spanish Empire
Spanish Empire as Charles I from 1516 and the Holy Roman Empire
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Holy Roman Empire as Charles V from 1519, as well as of the lands of the former Duchy of Burgundy
Duchy of Burgundy from 1506. He voluntarily stepped down from these and other positions by a series of abdications between 1554 and 1556. Through inheritance, he brought together under his rule extensive territories in western, central, and southern Europe, and the Spanish viceroyalties in the Americas and Asia
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Don Diego de Benavides de La Cueva y Bazán, 1st Marquis of Solera and 8th Count of Santisteban del Puerto (sometimes Don Diego Benavides y de la Cueva, conde de Santisteban del Puerto) (1607, Santisteban del Puerto, Jaén, Spain
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Jaén, Spain – ca
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Special
Special or specials may refer to:Contents1 Music 2 Film and television 3 Other uses 4 See alsoMusic[edit] Special
Special (album), a 1992
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"ISBN" redirects here. For other uses, see ISBN (other).International Standard Book
Book NumberA 13-digit ISBN, 978-3-16-148410-0, as represented by an EAN-13 bar codeAcronym ISBNIntroduced 1970; 48 years ago (1970)Managing organisation International ISBN AgencyNo. of digits 13 (formerly 10)Check digit Weighted sumExample 978-3-16-148410-0Website www.isbn-international.orgThe International Standard Book
Book Number (ISBN) is a unique[a][b] numeric commercial book identifier. Publishers purchase ISBNs from an affiliate of the International ISBN Agency.[1] An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation (except reprintings) of a book. For example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, and 10 digits long if assigned before 2007
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Philip II (Spanish: Felipe II; 21 May 1527 – 13 September 1598), called "the Prudent" (el Prudente), was King of Spain[a] (1556–98), King of Portugal
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King of Portugal (1581–98, as Philip I, Filipe I),[1] King of Naples and Sicily (both from 1554), and jure uxoris King of England
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King of England and Ireland (during his marriage to Queen Mary I
Queen Mary I from 1554–58).[2] He was also Duke of Milan.[3] From 1555 he was lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands. Known in Spain as "Felipe el Prudente" ('"Philip the Prudent'"), his empire included territories on every continent then known to Europeans, including his namesake the Philippines. During his reign, Spain reached the height of its influence and power. This is sometimes called the Golden Age
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Chihuahua (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃiˈwawa] ( listen)), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua), is one of the 32 states of Mexico. Its capital city is Chihuahua City. It is located in Northwestern Mexico
Mexico and is bordered by the states of Sonora
Sonora to the west, Sinaloa
Sinaloa to the southwest, Durango
Durango to the south, and Coahuila
Coahuila to the east. To the north and northeast, it has a long border with the U.S. adjacent to the U.S. states of New Mexico
Mexico and Texas. Chihuahua is the largest state in Mexico
Mexico by area, with an area of 247,455 square kilometres (95,543 sq mi),[9] it is slightly larger than the United Kingdom
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Puebla
Puebla (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpweβla] ( listen)), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Puebla
Puebla (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla) is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 217 municipalities and its capital city is Puebla. It is located in East-Central Mexico
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The Rarámuri
Rarámuri or Tarahumara are a group of Indigenous people of the Americas living in the state of Chihuahua in Mexico. They are renowned for their long-distance running ability. Originally inhabitants of much of Chihuahua, the Rarámuri
Rarámuri retreated to the high sierras and canyons such as the Copper Canyon
Copper Canyon in the Sierra Madre Occidental
Sierra Madre Occidental on the arrival of Spanish invaders in the 16th century.[1] The area of the Sierra Madre Occidental
Sierra Madre Occidental which they now inhabit is often called the Sierra Tarahumara because of their presence. Estimates put the population of the Rarámuri
Rarámuri in 2006 at between 50,000 and 70,000 people. Most still practice a traditional lifestyle, inhabiting natural shelters such as caves or cliff overhangs, as well as small cabins of wood or stone
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