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Burgos
Burgos , city (1990 pop. 163,507), capital of Burgos prov., N Spain, in Castile-Leon, on a mountainous plateau c.2,800 ft (850 m) above sea level, overlooking the Arlanzón River. Normally it has among the coldest winters of any Spanish city. It is an important trade and tourist center with so... Read more
Castile
Castile , Span. Castilla , historic region and former kingdom, central and N Spain, traditionally divided into Old Castile and New Castile, and now divided into Castile-La Mancha and Castile-Leon. Castile is generally a vast, sparsely populated region surrounding the highly industrialized Madrid ar... Read more
cathedral
cathedral church in which a bishop presides. The designation is not dependent on the size or magnificence of a church edifice, but is entirely a matter of its assignment as the church in which the bishop shall officiate. Romanesque cathedrals (see Romanesque architecture and art ) were massiv... Read more
Gothic architecture and art
Gothic architecture and art structures (largely cathedrals and churches) and works of art first created in France in the 12th cent. that spread throughout Western Europe through the 15th cent., and in some locations into the 16th cent. The Nature of the Gothic The essential character of t... Read more
Spain
Spain Span. España , officially Kingdom of Spain, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 40,341,000), 194,884 sq mi (504,750 sq km), including the Balearic and Canary islands, SW Europe. It consists of the Spanish mainland (190,190 sq mi/492,592 sq km), which occupies the major part of the... Read more

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Burgos
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Burgos , city (1990 pop. 163,507), capital of Burgos prov., N Spain, in Castile-Leon, on a mountainous...The royal residence was moved (1087) to Toledo, and Burgos lost some of its cultural importance. In the civil war...
Pasiegos
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...straddle the provincial boundaries of Burgos and Cantabria (formerly Santander) at...Cantabrian municipalities and, on the Burgos slope, into the montane regions of Espinosa...sources of the Rivers Pas and Miera and the Burgos side by the sources of the Trueba. The...
Spanish art and architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...decorative features. Outstanding examples include the cathedrals of Burgos, Toledo, and León, the last remarkable also for...retable and royal monuments in the church of Miraflores (near Burgos), representative of a late Gothic realism. In painting of...
Native Americans, Treatment of (Spain Vs. England) (Issue)
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...a result of his demands, the Crown promulgated the Laws of Burgos in 1512. These required that Indians were to be put into villages...Indians was Bartolome de Las Casas. He believed the Laws of Burgos were too weak and the Requerimiento was a travesty. He persuaded...
Castile-León
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Castile-León Region in n Spain; includes the provinces of Ávila, Burgos, León, Palencia, Salamanca, Segovia, Soria, Valladolid and Zamora; the capital is Valladolid. Formerly part of...
Francisco de Paula Joséde Goya y Lucientes
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...academic competition calling for a painting of the following subject: Empress Martha presents herself to King Alphonse the Wise in Burgos to petition a third of the ransom required by the sultan of Egypt for the rescue of her husband, Emperor Valduin; the Spanish...
Rigoberta Menchú
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1983, during a trip to Paris to promote her cause, she dictated her autobiography to a Venezuelan anthropologist, Elizabeth Burgos. The result of their collaboration was the widely read book, I, Rigoberta Mench ú : An Indian Woman in Guatemala...
Conversos
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...distinguish them from the more numerous Old Christians. Some Jews converted voluntarily. Two of the best known are Abner of Burgos and Pablo de Santa Mar í a, both of whom were baptized in the fourteenth century and inspired others to follow their...
Francisco de Vitoria
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...justification for Spain's conquests in the New World. Little is known of the early life of Francisco de Vitoria. He studied at Burgos and taught at the universities of Valladolid (1523-1526) and of Salamanca. At the latter institution, in 1539, he delivered...
1st Duke of Wellington
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...heavy casualties storming Ciudad Rodrigo and in the capture of Badajoz; he entered Madrid on August 12. His efforts to take Burgos were bloodily repulsed, and he then beat a hasty retreat to Ciudad Rodrigo. He was created Marquess of Wellington. Late in...

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De Burgos, Rafael Frühbeck
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music De Burgos, Rafael Frühbeck. See Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafael .
Ricardo of Burgos
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Ricardo of Burgos ( fl. c. 1180–1226). Probably an English master-mason. He designed and built the Monastery of Las Huelgas, near Burgos, Spain, and may have settled in Castile through his connections with...
Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafael
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafael ( b Burgos, 1933). Sp. conductor. Prin. cond. Bilbao orch. 1958–62; Madrid Nat. Orch. 1962–79; Düsseldorf SO 1966–70; Montreal SO 1974–6...
Acosta, Cristóbal
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...of Good Hope. He practiced medicine in Burgos and was that city ’ s physician...y medicinas de las Indias orientales (Burgos, 1578), trans. into Italian by F...documents on Acosta ’ s practice in Burgos. Unfortunately, the information that...
Colonia Family
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...known as Hans of Cologne): he settled in Burgos in Spain, where his family was associated...and La Cartuja de Miraflores, near Burgos (from 1441). Juan's sculptor-architect...c. 1511), succeeded his father at Burgos Cathedral in 1481, and designed the spectacular...
Siloé, Diego de
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Siloé, Diego de ( b Burgos, c. 1495; d Granada, 22 Oct. 1563...as his native city) but who settled in Burgos and is regarded as the outstanding Spanish...alabaster, in the monastery of Miraflores, Burgos: the first is of John II of Castile and...
Hontañon Family
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...chapels in the hall-church of San Antolin, Medina del Campo, Valladolid, and the Church of Santa Clara, Briviesca, Burgos (both c. 1503– c. 1523). He worked on the cloister and chapter-house of Palencia Cathedral (1505–...
Vigarny, Felipe
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...10 Nov. 1542). Burgundian-born sculptor who spent all his known career in Spain. He is first documented in 1498, in Burgos, when he contracted to carve three large stone reliefs of Christ's Passion for the retrochoir of the cathedral. They show...
Ruiz, Hipólito
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography RUIZ, HIP ó LITO ( b . Belorado, Burgos province, Spain, 8 August 1754; d . Madrid, Spain, 1816) botany . As a youth Ruiz was apprenticed to the pharmacy of an uncle...
Babieca
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Babieca the name of El Cid's horse, said to have carried his master's dead body on its last journey from Valencia to Burgos. The name means informally ‘stupid’, and reflects the story that El Cid as a boy chose what appeared...

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Burgos, staunch journalist, buried in Bulacan today.(Main News)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 11/21/2003; 700+ words ; ...Byline: JUDE GALFORD III Jose "Joe" G. Burgos Jr., acknowledged by peers as a fearless...chapel which he himself built at 2 p.m. Burgos, described by local and international...unanimously passed Resolution 52 honoring Burgos for his "heroic deeds and struggles as...
Plenty of pop: Burgos' fastball turning heads, could earn him spot in pen.
Newspaper article from: Newsday (Melville, NY); 3/2/2007; 700+ words ; ...At no time yesterday did Ambiorix Burgos reach 100 mph on the radar gun. But at...and it's looking more and more as if Burgos could be a part of the Mets' bullpen...his live batting-practice sessions, Burgos entered yesterday's game in a save situation...
'ISAFP NOT INVOLVED IN BURGOS ABDUCTION'
Newspaper article from: The Manila Times; 7/7/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...disappearance of farmer-activist Jonas Burgos and two of his colleagues last April...finding out] what had really happened to Burgos. They have been hit on this, that...planned and carried out the abduction of Burgos and his fellow activists. Bacarro said...
Julia de Burgos Elementary is '125,000 square feet of pure splendor!'
Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Tribune, The; 6/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Tribune, The 06-01-2004 Julia de Burgos Elementary School cut the ribbon on their...new building in October 2003. The de Burgos building, located at 401 W. Lehigh Avenue...proud to be educated in this building. de Burgos Principal Julia Rios-McManus calls the...
ARMY PINS BURGOS KIDNAP ON DEAD COMMIE
Newspaper article from: The Manila Times; 7/4/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...the culprits in the abduction of Jonas Burgos and two other peasant activists two months...official said Tuesday. But Mrs. Edith Burgos, the mother the missing agriculturist...in the disappearance of her son. Mrs. Burgos said her suspicions were bolstered after...
Burgos' mother files habeas corpus petition at SC.(Main News)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 7/12/2007; 700+ words ; Byline: REY G. PANALIGAN Edita Burgos, mother of missing activist Jonas Burgos, yesterday asked the Supreme Court (SC) to compel...In a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, Mrs. Burgos also asked the High Court that if Jonas is not in...
Burgos named managing editor
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 7/7/2006; ; 540 words ; ...Bergen County, NJ) 07-07-2006 Burgos named managing editor By KEVIN G. DeMARRAIS...BUSINESS Edtion: All Editions Frank Burgos, a veteran journalist and a Pulitzer...report to Editor Frank Scandale, who said Burgos was selected after a national search that...
PALACE WANTS BURGOS CASE RESOLVED SOONEST
Newspaper article from: The Manila Times; 5/3/2007; ; 610 words ; ...resolving the mysterious disappearance of Jonas Burgos and two others believed to have been abducted...announced that President Arroyo wants the case of Burgos, son of the late newspaper publisher Jose Burgos, resolved immediately. Ermita admitted that...
BURGOS QUITS LOBBYING FOR COMPANY SEEKING STATE PACT.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 6/16/1992; 700+ words ; ...bureau Citing "adverse publicity," Tonio Burgos, a longtime political associate of Gov...s Temporary Commission on Lobbying, Burgos withdrew the registration of his firm...papers filed earlier with the commission. Burgos' NYPROCOA Inc., in turn, had retained...
GIRLS SWIMMING PREVIEW; New coach starts at top; Burgos takes over proud Grafton tradition
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 9/7/2006; ; 700+ words ; Adan Burgos admits he didn't know what he was getting...Having just moved to the Grafton area, Burgos saw that the Blackhawks were hiring a head...year and I was like, Oh, all right,' " Burgos said. "I just remember a time saying...