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Almirante Brown-class Destroyers
Almirante is the Spanish and Portuguese word for admiral. It may also refer to: Places * Almirante, original name of Laurel Hill, Florida, a city in U.S. * Almirante, Bocas del Toro, a city in Panama * Almirante District, a district of Bocas del Toro Province in Panama * Almirante Ice Fringe, Graham Land, Antarctica Other uses * ''El Almirante'', a slave ship captured by in 1829 * Almirante (board game), a Portuguese strategy board game See also * Amirante (other) * Almirante (surname) Almirante is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ernesto Almirante (1877–1964), Italian actor * Giacomo Almirante (1875–1944), Italian actor * Giorgio Almirante (1914–1988), Italian politician * Luigi Almirante ..., a surname (including a list of people with the name) * Almirante Williams (other) * {{Disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Admiral
Admiral is one of the highest ranks in many navies. In the Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general in the army or the air force. Admiral is ranked above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet, or fleet admiral. Etymology The word in Middle English comes from Anglo-French , "commander", from Medieval Latin , . These evolved from the Arabic () – () (), "king, prince, chief, leader, nobleman, lord, a governor, commander, or person who rules over a number of people" and (), the Arabic definite article meaning "the." In Arabic, admiral is also represented as (), where al-Baḥr (البحر) means the sea. The 1818 edition of Samuel Johnson's '' A Dictionary of the English Language'', edited and revised by the Rev. Henry John Todd, states that the term "has been traced to the Arab. emir or amir, lord or commander, and the Gr. , the sea, q. d. ''prince of the sea''. The word is written both with and without ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Hill, Florida
Laurel Hill is a city in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Crestview– Fort Walton Beach–Destin, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 584 at the 2020 US Census, up from 537 at the 2010 census. History The area which is now Laurel Hill was one of the first post-American annexation, English-speaking settlements in Florida. There had been settlements by English-speaking loyalists in Florida during the American Revolution. Settlers were documented establishing a community, originally known as "''Almirante''", soon after Florida's acquisition by the United States in 1821. In the 1880s, railroad access to north-west Florida opened up a booming lumber industry, with the Yellow River Railroad reaching the Almirante (Laurel Hill) area by 1892. In 1895, Almirante, then just a small logging and farming community, was platted and renamed Laurel Hill, the name purportedly inspired by a large laurel tree which grew in the center of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almirante, Bocas Del Toro
Almirante is the capital of the Almirante District of the Bocas del Toro Province in the Republic of Panama. Its name is Spanish for admiral. History Almirante was built by the United Fruit Company at the beginning of the 20th century as a port for its banana exports. The area consisted of landfills on swamps. Almirante hosted UFCO's head office until 1970. Its first settlers were mostly black Jamaicans and the Lesser Antilles who moved to work on the banana plantations in the early 1900s. Due to the importance of the port of Almirante, it also attracted Chinese, Hindu and Jewish merchants in the early 1950s; Since 2002, a massive migration of Chinese entered the entire province, so it is normal to see them in their businesses. Almirante was hit by a strong earthquake on April 22, 1991, wooden houses were mostly destroyed, so the Government decided to build new houses on the outskirts. Geography Almirante has a land area of and average altitude of 15 meters; and it´s surrounde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almirante District
Almirante is a district (''distrito'') of Bocas del Toro Province in Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and .... It was created by Law 39 on 8 June 2015, in which it was split off from Changuinola District. Administrative divisions Almirante District is divided administratively into the following '' corregimientos'': * Puerto Almirante * Nance de Risco * Valle del Risco * Valle de Aguas Arriba * Barriada Guaymí * Barrio Francés References {{Districts of Panama Districts of Bocas del Toro Province 2015 establishments in Panama States and territories established in 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almirante Ice Fringe
Andvord Bay () is a bay, long and wide, which lies between Beneden Head and Duthiers Point along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Location Andvord Bay is on the Danco Coast on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extands in a northwest direction from Forbidden Plateau. Laussedat Heights on the Arctowski Peninsula and Rongé Island are to the east of the bay, which opens onto the Gerlache Strait opposite Anvers Island. Lemaire Island and Paradise Harbour are to the southwest. Glaciers entering the bay, clockwise from the northeast, include Deville Glacier, Fliess Glacier (which enters Neko Harbour), Arago Glacier, Moser Glacier, Rudolph Glacier, Bagshawe Glacier and Grubb Glacier. Coastal features, clockwise from the northeast, include Beneden Head, Neko Harbour, Henryk Cove, Forbes Point, Lester Cove, Dallmeyer Peak, Almirante Ice Fringe, Steinheil Point, Mount Hoegh and Duthiers Point. Hydrography Andvord Bay is a glacial fjord. The mouth of Andvord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almirante (board Game)
Almirante, the Game of Sea Domination, is a Portuguese strategy board game for up to six players. The object of the game is to dominate the center of the seas and of the board. The game was created and is produced by Jogos Almirante, Lda., a company founded in 2014 by young entrepreneurs. Game Play "Almirante" is Portuguese for "admirals". Each of the 2 to 6 players command both a merchant A merchant is a person who trades in goods produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries. Merchants have been known for as long as humans have engaged in trade and commerce. Merchants and merchant networks operated i ... and a war navy with the objective of controlling the geostrategic center of the ocean. Players use winds and coins to build and operate their fleets, with predetermined values of wind necessary to move a fishing boat or a galleon, for example, and coin to build different types of vessels. Both resources, wind and coin, can be traded by payin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amirante (other)
Amirante may refer to: People * John Amirante (1934–2018), American singer * Salvatore Amirante (born 1984), Italian footballer Places * Amirante Islands The Amirante Islands (''Les Amirantes'') are a group of coral islands and atolls that belong to the Outer Islands of the Seychelles. They stretch about 155 km from the African Banks (African Islands) in the north to Desnœufs (Isle des N ..., Seychelles See also * Almirante (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almirante (surname)
Almirante is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ernesto Almirante (1877–1964), Italian actor * Giacomo Almirante (1875–1944), Italian actor * Giorgio Almirante (1914–1988), Italian politician * Luigi Almirante (1884–1963), Italian actor * Mario Almirante (1890–1964), Italian filmmaker {{surname Italian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
