"American Spanish in the United States. Spanish was among the very first European languages spoken in North America, preceded only by Old Norse. Spanish arrived in the territory of the modern United States in 1493, with Columbus' arrival to Puerto Rico. Ponce de León explored what is now Florida in 1513. In 1565, the Spaniards founded St. Augustine, Florida, and as of the early 1800s, it became the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in what is now the United States. In 1898, San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico, became the oldest city in all of the U.S. territory: Juan"
"""americana"" in Spanish refers to a person from ""América"" in a similar way that ""europeo"" or ""europea"" refers to a person from ""Europa"". The terms ""sudamericano/a"", ""centroamericano/a"", ""antillano/a"" and ""norteamericano/a"" can be used to more specifically refer to the location where a person may live. Citizens of the United States of America are normally referred to by the term ""estadounidense"" (rough literal translation: ""United Statesian"") instead of ""americano"" or ""americana"" which is discouraged, and the country's name itself is officially translated as ""Estados Unidos de América"" (United States of America), commonly abbreviated as ""Estados Unidos"" (EEUU). Also, the term ""norteamericano"""
"of the country is the ""United Mexican States"" (), since it is a federation of thirty-two states. The official name was first used in the Constitution of 1824, and was retained in the constitutions of 1857 and 1917. Informally, ""Mexico"" is used along with ""Mexican Republic"" (""República Mexicana""). On 22 November 2012, outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderón proposed changing the official name of the country to ""México"". Anahuac (meaning land surrounded by water) was the name in Nahuatl given to what is now Mexico during Pre-Hispanic times. When the Spanish conquistadors besieged México-Tenochtitlan in 1521, it was almost completely destroyed."
"(""United States person""), which derives from ' (""United States of America""). The Spanish term ' (""North American"") is frequently used to refer things and persons from the United States, but this term can also denote people and things from Canada and Mexico. Among Spanish-speakers, North America generally doesn't include Central America or the Caribbean. In other languages, however, there is no possibility for confusion. For example, the Chinese word for ""U.S. national"" is ' () is derived from a word for the United States, ', where ' is an abbreviation for ""Yàměilìjiā"" (""America"") and ' is ""country"". The name for"
"Mexicanos"" (also ""Estados-unidos mexicanos"")—literally the ""Mexican United States"" or ""Mexican United-States"" (official English translation: ""United Mexican States"")—was adopted as the country's official name. The constitution of 1857 used the term ""República Mexicana"" (""Mexican Republic"") interchangeably with ""Estados Unidos Mexicanos""; the current constitution, promulgated in 1917, only uses the latter and ""United Mexican States"" is the normative English translation. The name ""Mexican Empire"" was briefly revived from 1863 to 1867 by the conservative government that instituted a constitutional monarchy for a second time under Maximilian of Habsburg. On 22 November 2012, incumbent President Felipe Calderón sent to the Mexican Congress a"
"in formal writing, but, save in Panama, prefer nicknames in colloquial speech."" To avoid ""American"" one can use constructed terms in their languages derived from ""United States"" or even ""North America"". In Canada, its southern neighbor is often referred to as ""the United States"", ""the U.S.A."", or (informally) ""the States"", while U.S. citizens are generally referred to as ""Americans"". Most Canadians resent being referred to as ""Americans"". In Spanish, ""América"" is a single continent composed of the subcontinents of ""América del Sur"" and ""América del Norte"", the land bridge of ""América Central"", and the islands of the ""Antillas"". ""Americano"" or"
"Spanish placenames in the USA include: Spanish Americans Spanish Americans (, hispanoestadounidenses, españoles americanos or hispanonorteamericanos) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly from Spain. Spanish Americans are the longest-established European-American group with a continuous presence in Florida since 1565 and are the eighth-largest (choosing the term ""Spaniard"") Hispanic group in the United States of America. Many Americans of Latin American descent have Spanish ancestral roots due to five centuries of Spanish colonial settlement and large-scale immigration after independence. The term ""Spanish-American"" is used only to refer to Americans whose ancestry originates directly from Spain, and therefore excludes ethnically"
"arms of the medieval Crown of Castile. Hispanic America Hispanic America (Spanish: ""Hispanoamérica"", or ""América hispana""), also known as Spanish America (Spanish: ""América española""), is the region comprising the Spanish-speaking nations in the Americas. These countries have significant commonalities with each other and with Spain, its former . In all of these countries, Spanish is the main language, sometimes sharing official status with one or more indigenous languages (such as Guaraní, Quechua, Aymara, or Mayan), or English (in Puerto Rico). Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion. Hispanic America is sometimes grouped together with Brazil under the term ""Ibero-America"", meaning those"
"In 1801, the document titled ""Letter to American Spaniards""—published in French (1799), in Spanish (1801), and in English (1808)—might have influenced Venezuela's Act of Independence and its 1811 constitution. The Latter-day Saints' Articles of Faith refer to the American continents as where they are to build Zion. Common short forms and abbreviations are the ""United States"", the ""U.S."", the ""U.S.A."", and ""America""; colloquial versions include the ""U.S. of A."" and ""the States"". The term ""Columbia"" (from the Columbus surname) was a popular name for the U.S. and for the entire geographic Americas; its usage is present today in the District"
"Hispanic America Hispanic America (Spanish: ""Hispanoamérica"", or ""América hispana""), also known as Spanish America (Spanish: ""América española""), is the region comprising the Spanish-speaking nations in the Americas. These countries have significant commonalities with each other and with Spain, its former . In all of these countries, Spanish is the main language, sometimes sharing official status with one or more indigenous languages (such as Guaraní, Quechua, Aymara, or Mayan), or English (in Puerto Rico). Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion. Hispanic America is sometimes grouped together with Brazil under the term ""Ibero-America"", meaning those countries in the Americas with cultural roots"
"' refers to the continents as a whole. The term ' is also accepted in many parts of Latin America to refer to a person or something from the United States, however this term may be ambiguous in certain parts. Up to and including the 1992 edition, the ', published by the Real Academia Española, did not include the United States definition in the entry for '; this was added in the 2001 edition. The Real Academia Española advised against using """" exclusively for U.S. nationals: Modern Canadians typically refer to people from the United States as ""Americans"", though they"
"United States in North America down to Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost region of South America in Chile and Argentina. A variety of the language, known as Judaeo-Spanish or Ladino (or Haketia in Morocco), is still spoken by descendants of Sephardim (Spanish and Portuguese Jews) who fled Spain following a decree of expulsion of practising Jews in 1492. Also, a Spanish creole language known as Chabacano, which developed by the mixing of Spanish and native Tagalog and Cebuano languages during Spain's rule of the country through Mexico from 1565 to 1898, is spoken in the Philippines (by roughly 1 million"
"States is equally often referred to as ""de Verenigde Staten"" (""the United States"") or ""de VS"" (""the US""), ""Amerika"" relatively rarely refers to the Americas, but it is the only commonly used Dutch word for the Americas. This often leads to ambiguity; and to stress that something concerns the Americas as a whole, Dutch uses a combination, namely ""Noord- en Zuid-Amerika"" (North and South America). Latin America is generally referred to as ""Latijns Amerika"" or ""Midden-Amerika"" for Central America. The adjective ""Amerikaans"" is most often used for things or people relating to the United States. There are no alternative words"
"Paulo (21.2 million), Los Angeles (18.8 million), Buenos Aires (13.8 million), Rio de Janeiro (13.0 million), Bogotá (10.4 million), and Lima (10.1 million). The name America was first recorded in 1507. Christie's auction house says a two-dimensional globe created by Martin Waldseemüller was the earliest recorded use of the term. The name was also used (together with the related term ""Amerigen"") in the ""Cosmographiae Introductio"", apparently written by Matthias Ringmann, in reference to South America. It was applied to both North and South America by Gerardus Mercator in 1538. America derives from ""Americus"", the Latin version of Italian explorer Amerigo"
"America, and on some occasions in the Iberian Peninsula, even though in most official or regional languages of Spain (Asturian, Leonese and Catalan) and Portuguese, the ""x"" is still pronounced . Name of Mexico The name of Mexico has several hypotheses that entail the origin, history, and use of the name ""Mexico"", which dates back to 14th century Mesoamerica. The Nahuatl word ""Mexico"" means ""place of the Mexica"" but the ethnonym ""Mexicatl"" itself is of unknown etymology. An alternate possibility is that the name may come from the word ""mexixin"", a cress that grew in the swamplands of Lake Texcoco."
"employment, mass media, academia, and business market research. It has been used in the U.S. Census since 1980. Because of the popularity of ""Latino"" in the western portion of the United States, the government adopted this term as well in 1997, and used it in the 2000 census. Previously, Hispanic and Latino Americans were categorized as ""Spanish-Americans"", ""Spanish-speaking Americans"", or ""Spanish-surnamed Americans"". However: The term ""Hispanic"" actually refers to ""Hispania""—a large geographical area notably recognized in the Roman era. It consists of the entire Iberian peninsula, not just the modern-day state of Spain. Thus, the more recent division between the"
"""equivalent and valid"" denominations. Then on October 8, 1860, President Santiago Derqui decreed the official name to be República Argentina. In common speech, the country is referred to as ""la Argentina"" (the Argentine) in Spanish, bypassing the noun in any of the above expressions (""the Argentine [land]"", ""the Argentine [Republic]"", etc.). Name of Argentina The name of Argentina (a Spanish adjective meaning ""silvery""), traditionally called the Argentine in English, is ultimately derived from the Latin ""argentum"" ""silver"" and the feminine of the adjectival suffix -īnus, the Latin ""argentum"" has its origin from the ancient Greek-Hellenic word ""argyro(s)"", άργυρο(ς) meaning silver."
"Spanish Americans Spanish Americans (, hispanoestadounidenses, españoles americanos or hispanonorteamericanos) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly from Spain. Spanish Americans are the longest-established European-American group with a continuous presence in Florida since 1565 and are the eighth-largest (choosing the term ""Spaniard"") Hispanic group in the United States of America. Many Americans of Latin American descent have Spanish ancestral roots due to five centuries of Spanish colonial settlement and large-scale immigration after independence. The term ""Spanish-American"" is used only to refer to Americans whose ancestry originates directly from Spain, and therefore excludes ethnically Spanish Americans who immigrated to the"
"of Spain as ""the King of Castile,"" whereas the British sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, is sometimes referred to colloquially as ""the Queen of England."" Spanish is the official language in a great part of the Americas. U.S. Hispanics are citizens of the United States whose ancestry or national origin is of any of the nations composing the Hispanosphere. A Hispanic person's status is independent from whether or not he or she speaks the Spanish language, for not all Hispanic Americans speak Spanish. A Hispanic person may be of any race (White, Amerindian, mixed, Black, Asian or"
"Romania, Greece, and the countries of Latin America, the cognates of ""North America"" usually designate a subcontinent of the Americas comprising Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and often Greenland, Saint Pierre et Miquelon, and Bermuda. North America has been historically referred to by other names. Spanish North America (New Spain) was often referred to as ""Northern America"", and this was the first official name given to Mexico. Geographically the North American continent has many regions and subregions. These include cultural, economic, and geographic regions. Economic regions included those formed by trade blocs, such as the North American Trade Agreement"
"to refer to people from the United States while others, particularly Spanish, primarily use terms derived from United States. There are various other local and colloquial names for Americans. Amerigo Vespucci first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as conjectured by Christopher Columbus, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to the peoples of the Old World. Martin Waldseemüller coined the term America (in honor of Vespucci) in a 1507 world map. First uses of the adjective American referenced European settlements in the New World. Americans referred to the indigenous peoples"
"experience is specific to their unique ethnic identity, while the other is the broader multicultural amalgam that is Americana. Latin America includes most of the Western Hemisphere south of the United States, including Mexico, Central America, South America and (in some cases) the Caribbean. U.S. nationals with origins in Latin America are often referred to as Hispanic or Latino Americans, or by their specific country of origin, e.g., Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans and Cuban Americans. Hyphenated American In the United States, the term hyphenated American refers to the use of a hyphen (in some styles of writing) between the name"
"even Latin) rather than English: 西班牙 ( ""xībānyá"") for Spain and 西班牙语 ( ""xībānyá yǔ""), or the abbreviation 西語 ( ""xī yǔ"") for the Spanish language. The Arabic إسبانية (""isbāniya"") for Spain derives directly from the word ""España"": the absence of ""p"" in the Arabic alphabet makes it a ""b"", and the sound ""ñ"" is transformed into ""n"". إسباني (isbāni) is the name for Spanish, with the ""nisba"" suffix. In Guatemala, although Spanish is the official language, the Maya peoples, descendants of the original inhabitants of the region, call it ""la castilla"", keeping the original name from colonial times. Mayans"
"the continents. For the country there is the term '. Thus, a citizen of the United States is an ', whereas an ' is an inhabitant of the Americas. In Hungarian the term amerikai (American) refers to a person or a thing from the United States. The name ""America"" was coined by Martin Waldseemüller from ""Americus Vespucius"", the Latinized version of the name of Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512), the Italian explorer who mapped South America's east coast and the Caribbean Sea in the early 16th century. Later, Vespucci's published letters were the basis of Waldseemüller's 1507 map, which is the first"
"Naming customs of Hispanic America The naming customs of Hispanic America are similar to the Spanish naming customs practiced in Spain, with some modifications to the surname rules. Many Hispanophones in the countries of Hispanic America have two given names, plus a paternal surname (""primer apellido"" or ""apellido paterno"") and a maternal surname (""segundo apellido"" or ""apellido materno""). In the colonial period and nineteenth century, it was common to have between one and three given names followed by a second name with a ""de"" (from) in front. For example, the Saint Teresa de Los Andes whose real name is Juana"
"of 1763. Viceroyalty of New Spain (present-day Mexico) was the name of the viceroy-ruled territories of the Spanish Empire in Asia, North America and its peripheries from 1535 to 1821. The coming of the American Revolution had a great impact across the continent. Most importantly it directly led to the creation of the United States of America. However, the associated American Revolutionary War was an important war that touched all corners of the region. The flight of the United Empire Loyalists led to the creation of English Canada as a separate community Meanwhile, Spain's hold on Mexico was weakening. Independence"
"of Columbia's name. Moreover, the womanly personification of Columbia appears in some official documents, including editions of the U.S. dollar. Use of the term ""American"" for U.S. nationals is common at the United Nations, and financial markets in the United States are referred to as ""American financial markets"". ""American Samoa"" is a recognized territorial name at the United Nations. The use of ""American"" as a national demonym for U.S. nationals is challenged, primarily by Hispanic Americans. Spanish speakers in Spain and Latin America use the term ' to refer to people and things from the United States (from '), while"
"small voice in international organizations; it is not part of the G8 and participates in the G20 only as a guest. Spain is part of the G6 (EU). Although it had been used in treaties as far back as the seventeenth century, it was not until the constitution of 1812 that the name ""Españas"" became the official name for the Spanish kingdom and ""King of the Spains"" became the official title of the head of state. It was not until the promulgation of the constitution of 1876 that the singular form of the name, ""España"" (Spain), became the official name"
"of DC Comics, developed into an American icon. Aside from web portals and search engines, the most popular websites are Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, and Twitter. More than 800 publications are produced in Spanish, the second most commonly used language in the United States behind English. Internet sources United States The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km), the United States is the world's"
"Latin America La |image = Latin America (orthographic projection).svg Others:<br>Quechua, Mayan languages, Guaraní, Aymara, Nahuatl, Italian, German, English, Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian, Welsh, Yiddish, Chinese, Japanese Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Romance languages such as Spanish, French and Portuguese are predominantly spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America. The term ""Latin America"" was first used in an 1856 conference with the title ""Initiative of the America. Idea for a Federal Congress of Republics"" (Iniciativa de la América. Idea de un Congreso Federal de las Repúblicas), by the Chilean"
"proclaimed emperor of Mexico, copying the ceremony used by Napoleon when he proclaimed himself emperor of France. No one was allowed to speak against Iturbide. He filled his government with corrupt officials, who became rich by taking bribes and making dishonest business deals. In 1822, Mexico annexed the Federal Republic of Central America, which includes present-day Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and part of Chiapas. By 1823, Mexicans of all classes were fed up with emperor Agustin de Iturbide's corrupt and oppressive rule. They overthrew him and 4 October 1824, the United Mexican States (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos)"
"of Enlightenment. Until then the word Spain (Hispânia) was only a geographic location referring exclusively to the Iberian peninsula. It was only in the constitution of 1812 that the name ""Españas"" (Spains) was adopted for the country along with the use of the title of ""king of the Spains"". The constitution of 1876 adopts for the first time the name ""Spain"" for the Spanish state and from then on the kings would use the title of ""king of Spain"". Portugal, Castille and Aragon were allies in the ""Reconquista"" in which they reconquered land from the Muslim Moors in the south"
"Spanish word is a hybrid of the Taíno ""batata"" (sweet potato) and the Quechua ""papa"" (potato). The name originally referred to the sweet potato although the two plants are not closely related. The 16th-century English herbalist John Gerard referred to sweet potatoes as ""common potatoes"", and used the terms ""bastard potatoes"" and ""Virginia potatoes"" for the species we now call ""potato"". In many of the chronicles detailing agriculture and plants, no distinction is made between the two. Potatoes are occasionally referred to as ""Irish potatoes"" or ""white potatoes"" in the United States, to distinguish them from sweet potatoes. The name"