"documented Amerindian settlement dates to between about 350 and 650 AD. The arrivals were a group known as the Saladoid-Barrancoid from mainland South America. A second wave of settlers appeared around the year 800 (the Spanish referred to these as ""Arawaks"") and a third in the mid-13th century (called ""Caribs"" by the Spanish). This last group was politically more organised and came to rule over the others. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to discover the island. Portuguese navigator Pedro a Campos named it ""Los Barbados"" (meaning ""bearded ones""). Frequent slave-raiding missions by the Spanish Empire in the early 16th"
"allegedly bearded Caribs who once inhabited the island, or, more fancifully, to a visual impression of a beard formed by the sea foam that sprays over the outlying reefs. In 1519, a map produced by the Genoese mapmaker Visconte Maggiolo showed and named Barbados in its correct position. Furthermore, the island of Barbuda in the Leewards is very similar in name and was once named """"Las Barbudas"""" by the Spanish. It is uncertain which European nation arrived first in Barbados. One lesser-known source points to earlier revealed works predating contemporary sources indicating it could have been the Spanish. Many if"
"Pintados Pintados was the term used by Spanish colonists to describe the tattooed indigenous Cebuano Visayan people. They were found on the islands of Cebu, Bohol, eastern part of Negros, Samar and Leyte in the Biçayas (Visayas) region of the Philippines. The word itself means ""painted,"" and was first used during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. The men are known for their tattoo art, which often covers most of their bodies. They apply the tattoos by pricking the skin with sharp pieces of iron and then applying black powder to the open wounds which is absorbed into the skin"
"Pellendones The Pellendones (also ""Pelendones Celtiberorum"" or ""Cerindones"") were an ancient pre-Roman people living on the Iberian Peninsula. From the early 4th century BC they inhabited the region near the source of the river Duero in what today is north-central Spain. The area comprises the north of Soria, the southeast of Burgos and the southwest of La Rioja provinces. Possibly of mixed Illyrian and Celtic origin, the Pellendones migrated to the Iberian Peninsula around the 4th Century BC. Their original native name might have been ""*Kellendones"" and it is believed that they were related to the Gallic Belendi or Pelendi"
"parts of the large island.. Pintados was the term used by Spanish colonists to describe the tattooed indigenous Cebuano Visayan people. They were found on the islands of Cebu, Bohol, eastern part of Negros, Samar and Leyte in the Biçayas (Visayas) region of the Philippines. The word itself means ""painted,"" and was first used during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. The 17th century Cebuanos developed a culture through trade with significant influence primarily from Japan. They traded pearls and coral for silk, gold, weapons and spices. The early Cebuanos held animist beliefs and worshipped ""anitos"" (spirits) until the introduction"
"absorbed by the Vascones in around AD 580. Autrigones The Autrigones were a pre-Roman tribe that settled in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, in what today is the western Basque Country (western regions of Biscay and Álava) and northern Burgos, Spain. Their territory limited with the Cantabri territory at west, the Caristii at east, the Berones at the southeast and the Turmodigi at the south. It is discussed whether the Autrigones were Celts, theory supported by the existence of toponyms of Celtic origin, such as ""Uxama Barca"" and other with ""-briga"" endings and that eventually underwent a Basquisation along"
"resting place by the Inca army in their advance to the south, and then by the Spanish conquistadores Diego de Almagro first, and later by Pedro de Valdivia. People of Combarbalá likes to make jokes about the name of the city: they hold that an aborigine of the area, who was named ""La"", left to travel with the Spaniards. ""La"" got used to shaving his face and returned with a dense beard, something unusual because South American aborigines don't grow beards. Because of this, people named the area as the place where """"Con-Barba-La"""" —literally with-beard-La or bearded La—lived. This history"
"the Spanish, were the first inhabitants of the old Province of Pamplona. They were called thus by the Spaniards, because of the general custom that the men had to carry hanging from the waist ""calabazo"" or ""totumo"" with ""chicha"" or maize wine as the Spaniards called it. Asking how the thing they carried was called, the natives responded that it was a ""chitarero"". When the area was occupied by Pedro de Ursúa and Ortún Velasco in 1549, they reduced the primitive settlers to the regime of ""encomiendas"". Around 100 groups or ""capitanejos"" were distributed in 53 ""encomiendas"" through all the"
"Lusones The Lusones (Greek: ""Lousones"") were an ancient Celtiberian (Pre-Roman) people of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania), who lived in the high Tajuña River valley, northeast of Guadalajara. They were eliminated by the Romans as a significant threat in the end of the 2nd century BC. They spoke a variety of the Celtiberian language and were a subdivision of the Celtiberians. There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that the ancestors of the Celtiberian groups were installed in the Meseta area of the Iberian Peninsula from at least 1000 BC and probably much earlier. A mixed people, they included"
"Carpetani The Carpetani (Greek: ""Karpetanoi"") were one of the Celtic pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania, modern Spain and Portugal), akin to the Celtiberians, dwelling in the central part of the ""meseta"" - the high central upland plain of the Iberian Peninsula. Since the 5th century BC the Carpetani inhabited the Toledo and Alcaraz highland ranges along the middle Tagus basin, occupying a territory that stretched from the Guadarrama river at the north to the upper ""Anas"" (Guadiana) in the modern provinces of Guadalajara, Toledo, Madrid and Ciudad Real, an area designated as Carpetania in the ancient"
"Spaniards conquering weapons. It is also known as ""Macizo del Cerro Prieto"", ""Sierra Libre"" or ""Sierra Prieta"". Caves, hollows and rocks from this area were used by ancient natives as dwellings, funerary events and sanctuaries. The site is located within regional areas defined as Aridoamerica and Oasisamerica. Both are defined as independent of Mesoamerica and in turn are apparently differentiated from one another by cultural traits. One group is said to be composed of hunter-gatherers and the other to be in possession of agricultural techniques. No information is available as to what the chronological periods are for each “region” was,"
"crops and other vegetables, and fruits. They lived then — as many still do — in circular thatched huts and slept in hammocks. Villages specialized in producing certain goods, and traders moved among them along the rivers and coastal waters in dugout canoes. The Indians were skillful potters, stonecutters, goldsmiths, and silversmiths. The ornaments they wore, including breastplates and earrings of beaten gold, reinforced the Spanish myth of El Dorado, the city of gold. Rodrigo de Bastidas, a wealthy notary public from Seville, was the first of many Spanish explorers to reach the isthmus. Sailing westward from Venezuela in 1501"
"of the aboriginal occupants of this lands begins with the conquest of the Incas, who never definitively conquered this people. The northernmost outpost of the Inca Empire, according to Spanish chroniclers, was the Rumichaca Bridge, from Tulcan on the present-day border with Colombia. The Spanish, seeking gold, became interested in the Quillasinga (the name given to the land), meaning ""Gold Noses"". Quillasinga was named without distinction of the ethnic occupants including the Pastos. Upon assuming the sovereignty for the Spanish crown, the territory was divided into provinces: Quillasinga road to Quito, Quillasinga road to Popayan, Quillasinga road to Almaguer, and"
"Known as the “Canoadores” (Certadores) to the early Spanish colonizers who came to the place in the early Seventeenth Century (17th), the settlers cut timbers from nearby mountains located upriver or around San Miguel bay area and made this as their form of living. Out of these timbers they hewed out canoes or “bancas” which they stored under small sheds or huts. Later, when these sheds became abundant in the area, as they were made the permanent dwelling places by these canoe makers, the place was called “CAMALIGAN” from the word “KAMALIG” or shed, a place where so many “Kamalig”"
"Indigetes The Indigetes (Latin: ""indigetes"" or ""indigetae"" or ""Indiketes"") were an ancient Iberian (Pre-Roman) people of the eastern side of the Iberian peninsula (the Roman Hispania). They are believed to have spoken the Iberian language. They occupied the far north east area of the Iberian Peninsula known as Hispania Tarraconensis, in the gulf of Empúries and Rhoda, stretching up into the Pyrenees though the regions of Empordà, Selva and perhaps as far as Gironès, where the Ausetani could be found who were related ethnically. They were divided into four tribes, and the main towns they centered on were: ""Indika"" (only"
"west by the Caprock Escarpment stretching south from the Canadian River and east along the Pecos River. The Spanish soldier and explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, the first European to traverse the area in 1541, named the region after seeing these cliffs. From the north, they resemble a stockade (""estacada"") surrounding the high tableland, thus the name, meaning ""stockaded plain"" or ""palisaded plain."" The US territorial settlement of Portales occurred in the late 19th century as cattle herders discovered a water source emanating from a rocky ledge resembling a Spanish porch. The local watering hole took on the name ""Portales"","
"belonged to the chiefs, who received regular tribute and whose rule was absolute."" Punishments administered by chiefs included death and banishment. Tribal wars included looting, destruction of houses and canoes and killing of prisoners. Pre-Spanish population estimates are deemed unreliable. Pohnpei's first European visitor was Álvaro de Saavedra on 14 September 1529 shortly before his death, when trying to find the way back to New Spain. He charted it as ""San Bartolomé"" and called this one and the surrounding islands as ""Los Pintados"" (literally, ""the painted ones"" in Spanish) because the natives were frequently tattooed. It was later visited by"
"Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch adventurers and colonists who came to the Spice Islands. The term referred to certain lands and their inhabitants that were considered ""wild"", ""untamed"" or ""pagan"", particularly in regions that fell under the influence of Tidore and neighboring Ternate. The term was thus especially used of peoples in the Maluku Islands (Halmahera, Seram, and Buru among others) and nearby areas of northern and central Sulawesi. Until the 1900s even Papuans were also often called ""Alfur"". In 1879 Van Musschenbroek, former Resident of Menado, described the use of the term in the following way: As with the so-called"
"Madrid in 1750 and San Ildefonso in 1777. Bandeirantes The Bandeirantes () were 17th-century Portuguese settlers in Brazil and fortune hunters. This group mostly hailed from the São Paulo region, which was known as the Captaincy of São Vicente until 1709 and then as the Captaincy of São Paulo. They led expeditions called ""bandeiras"" (Portuguese, ""flags"") which penetrated the interior of Brazil far south and west of the Tordesillas Line of 1494, which officially divided the Castilian, later Spanish, (west) domain from the Portuguese (east) domain in South America. The São Paulo settlement served as the home base for the"
"Baymen The Baymen were the earliest European settlers along the Bay of Honduras in what eventually became the colony of British Honduras (modern-day Belize). The first Baymen settled in the Belize City area in the 1650s. They were buccaneers and pirates trying to outrun the Spanish rulers in Mexico and Central America. They found that they could make a living cutting and selling logwood to the home country. Many of the first Baymen settled on what is now the Northside of Belize City. They controlled all affairs of municipal and national government through the Public Meeting. The Baymen established the"
"was the first to write of them. Chowigna and Suangna were two Tongva settlements of many in the peninsula area, which was also a departure point for their rancherias on the Channel Islands. Legend has it that the Native Americans blessed the land of Palos Verdes, making it the most beautiful place on Earth. The Tongva called the San Pedro area ""Chaaw"". San Pedro was named for St. Peter of Alexandria, a fourth-century bishop in Alexandria, Egypt. His feast day is November 24 on the local ecclesiastical calendar of Spain, the day on which Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo discovered the bay"
"Cynetes The Cynetes or Conii were one of the pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula, living in today's Algarve and Lower Alentejo regions of southern Portugal, and the southern part of Badajoz and the northwestern portions of Córdoba and Ciudad Real provinces in Spain before the 6th century BCE (in what part of this become the southern part of the Roman province of Lusitania). They are often mentioned in the ancient sources under various designations, mostly Greek or Latin derivatives of their two tribal names: ‘Cynetas’/’Cynetum’; ‘Kunetes’, ‘Kunetas’, and ‘Kunesioi' or ‘Cuneus’, followed by ‘Konioi’, ‘Kouneon’ and ‘Kouneous’/‘Kouneoi’. The Conii"
"Bandeirantes The Bandeirantes () were 17th-century Portuguese settlers in Brazil and fortune hunters. This group mostly hailed from the São Paulo region, which was known as the Captaincy of São Vicente until 1709 and then as the Captaincy of São Paulo. They led expeditions called ""bandeiras"" (Portuguese, ""flags"") which penetrated the interior of Brazil far south and west of the Tordesillas Line of 1494, which officially divided the Castilian, later Spanish, (west) domain from the Portuguese (east) domain in South America. The São Paulo settlement served as the home base for the most famous ""bandeirantes."" Most ""bandeirantes"" were descendants of"
"was tied to the sea as demonstrated by the Montagnais (or Innu) and Inuit, although these peoples also made significant forays throughout the interior. It is believed that the Norsemen were the first Europeans to sight Labrador around 1000 AD, but no Norse remains have been found on the North American mainland. The area was known as ""Markland"" in Greenlandic Norse and its inhabitants were known as ""skrælingjar"". In 1499 and 1500, Portuguese explorers João Fernandes Lavrador and Pêro de Barcelos reached what was probably Labrador today and that is believed to be the origin of the name Labrador. Maggiolo’s"
"Autrigones The Autrigones were a pre-Roman tribe that settled in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, in what today is the western Basque Country (western regions of Biscay and Álava) and northern Burgos, Spain. Their territory limited with the Cantabri territory at west, the Caristii at east, the Berones at the southeast and the Turmodigi at the south. It is discussed whether the Autrigones were Celts, theory supported by the existence of toponyms of Celtic origin, such as ""Uxama Barca"" and other with ""-briga"" endings and that eventually underwent a Basquisation along with other neighboring tribes such as the Caristii"
"Conquistador Conquistadors (; from Spanish or Portuguese ""conquistadores"" ""conquerors""; , ) is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense. During the Age of Discovery, conquistadors sailed beyond Europe to the Americas, Oceania, Africa, and Asia, conquering territory and opening trade routes. They colonized much of the world for Spain and Portugal in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. The Spanish conquistadores, who were primarily poor nobles from the impoverished west and south of Spain, began building up an American empire in the Caribbean, using islands"
"have been traditional to more extensive areas of Europe and the region, but which with time only survived in isolated places such as these valleys, and others elsewhere in Europe, and in Asia and Africa. The people of this habitat, who were named Pasiegans (""Pasiegos"") from the name of the valleys and the main river, settled mainly on the flanks of the hills of the Miera and Pas rivers. The settling was scattered, as they lived in wooden and later, stone huts (called ""cabañas"", cabins) which they occupied during the Spring and Summer, when the pastures were richer. For the"
"population, especially after acquiring the Latin language as their own vernacular. The most important archaeological sites are in the following places: Ilercavones The Ilercavones were an ancient Iberian (Pre-Roman) people of the Iberian peninsula (the Roman Hispania). They are believed to have spoken an Iberian language. The name Ilercavonia to refer to the territory occupied by this Iberian tribe appears in ancient Greek and Roman texts and documents and it was still mentioned in medieval texts. The northern limits of this territory were in Serra de la Llena, the northeastern in Coll de Balaguer, the western in Mequinensa and the"
"with – or were absorbed by – their neighbours the Belli and Titii. Lusones The Lusones (Greek: ""Lousones"") were an ancient Celtiberian (Pre-Roman) people of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania), who lived in the high Tajuña River valley, northeast of Guadalajara. They were eliminated by the Romans as a significant threat in the end of the 2nd century BC. They spoke a variety of the Celtiberian language and were a subdivision of the Celtiberians. There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that the ancestors of the Celtiberian groups were installed in the Meseta area of the Iberian Peninsula from"
"It was this second parish that made the discoverers call port on this ignored island. The Porto do Seixo was written into the history of the discoveries as the first locality visited by the discoverers on the second day of their exploration along the coast. But, it is unclear the origin of the parish's name; there are various hypothesises. Some indicate that the primitive name was actually ""Água de Penha"" and not ""Pena"": a common mistake/corruption during the era. The use of ""penha"" () is a better translation for the description recounted by Frutuoso, since the story indicated that the"
"on the west side of San Pedro Bay, was used by Spanish ships starting in the 1540s. The peninsula, including all of San Pedro, was the homeland of the Tongva-Gabrieleño Native American people for thousands of years. In other areas of the Los Angeles Basin archeological sites date back 8,000–15,000 years. The Tongva believe they have been here since the beginning of time. Once called the ""lords of the ocean"", due to their mastery of oceangoing canoes (Ti'ats), many Tongva villages covered the coastline. Their first contact with Europeans in 1542 with Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, the Portuguese explorer who also"
"in the mines of Hispaniola (where they died out by 1550). An intact wooden ""duho"" or ritual seat that was made by the Taino people was found on the island of Eleuthera in the nineteenth century and is now in the collections of the British Museum. The island in its early history was known as ""Cigateo"", but this name changed following subsequent European settlement. The island is believed to have been largely unoccupied until the first European settlers arrived in volume, with Puritan colonists (who formed the previous year in London) arriving in 1648 from other parts of Bermuda. These"
"likelihood, the name of this group is derived from the Spanish word ""cimarrón"", meaning ""wild"" or ""untamed"". This word usually referred to runaways or castaways and is ultimately derived from the word for ""thicket"" in Old Spanish. A less common folk etymology holds that ""cimarron "" comes from the Taino word ""si'maran"" meaning ""the flight of an arrow"". Slave rebellions and uprisings in the New World were very common during the first years of exploration. Runaway slaves were prevalent in Brazil as well, where they were known as ""palenques, cumbes"" and ""quilombos"". These runaway slaves fled from the mines and"