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    Bartolomé de las Casas, OP (US: /lɑːs ˈkɑːsəs/ lahss KAH-səss; Spanish: [baɾtoloˈme ðe las ˈkasas] ; 11 November 1484 – 18 July 1566) was a Spanish clergyman...
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  • Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Spanish pronunciation: [fɾaj βaɾtoloˈme ðe las ˈkasas]) is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz. The...
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    and those of subcontractors. Another active region is that of Fray Bartolomé de las Casas and Chahal in Alta Verapaz Department; El Estor and Livingston...
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    hostility, Las Casas left Nicaragua and went to Guatemala. In November 1536, Las Casas settled in Santiago de Guatemala, then the capital of Guatemala; a few...
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  • Azua province Guatemala Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, a municipality in the department of Alta Verapaz Mexico San Cristóbal de las Casas, a town and municipality...
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    his Cartas de Relación, in which he details his crossing of what is now Guatemala's Petén Department. Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas wrote a highly...
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    rights of the indigenous peoples, Bartolomé de las Casas, who criticized the Conquest. Though agreeing with Las Casas's criticism of the abuses of the conquistadors...
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  • According to Bartolomé de las Casas, Marcos later testified to many Spanish atrocities he had witnessed in Peru. He also worked in Guatemala and accompanied...
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  • vicar of the Dominican friars in Hispaniola, convinced the cleric Bartolomé de las Casas to enter the Dominican novitiate. In 1526, Betanzos went to Mexico...
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  • Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz. The name originates from the Mayans. On his second visit to Guatemala, in 1537, friar Bartolomé de las Casas,...
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    Alta Verapaz Department (category Departments of Guatemala)
    at least sixteen buildings were searched. Chahal Chisec Cobán Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Lanquín Panzós Raxruha San Cristóbal Verapaz San Juan Chamelco...
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  • hostilities, Las Casas left Nicaragua y went to Guatemala. On November 1536, Las Casas settled in Santiago de Guatemala, then the capital of Guatemala; a few...
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    municipalities of Tumbalá, Sabanilla, Tila, Salto de Agua y Palenque. The Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Center for Human Rights (Frayba) has documented the...
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    caciques were captured and burned alive in the Jaragua massacre. Fray Bartolomé de las Casas wrote that in that massacre the Spanish also attacked the other...
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    Christian evangelization. In Motolinia's 1555 response to Dominican Bartolomé de Las Casas, he praises Cortés. And as to those who murmur against the Marqués...
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  • infrastructure projects in Sebol, which eventually adopted the name "Fray Bartolomé de las Casas," a municipality created in 1983 in Alta Verapaz. In 1960, then...
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    Spanish conquest of the Maya (category Colonial Guatemala)
    to Guatemala Bartolomé de las Casas In this way they congregated a group of Christian Indians in the location of what is now the town of Rabinal. Las Casas...
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    Qʼeqchiʼ language (category Languages of Guatemala)
    the Spaniards, by which Dominican priests, led initially by Fray Bartolome de las Casas, were allowed to enter their territory and proselytize undisturbed...
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  • Chiapa and Guatemala of the Order of Preachers – who accompanied Fray Bartolomé de las Casas on his first visit to the area, described them as people "very...
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    were local militias created by the Guatemalan Government. Sebol finally adopted the name "Fray Bartolomé de las Casas', municipality created in 1983 in...
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    Cortés in his published letters to the king, López de Gómara, Bartolomé de las Casas, Gonzalo de Illescas and others who had not participated in the...
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    2017. Coloma, Andrea (November 15, 2015). "Petatán ya es el municipio número 340 de Guatemala" (in Spanish). Guatemala.com. Retrieved November 24, 2017....
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    Battalion built the road stretch from Cadenas (Petén / Izabal) to Fray Bartolomé de las Casas. After the overthrow of Lucas García March 23, 1982, a military...
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    America Las Casas, Bartolomé de, The Devastation of the Indies, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore & London, 1992. Las Casas, Bartolomé de, History...
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  • and those of subcontractors. Another active region is that of Fray Bartolomé de las Casas and Chahal in Alta Verapaz Department; El Estor and Livingston...
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    Vitoria Pedro Calderón de la Barca Bartolomé de Las Casas Beatriz Galindo Miguel de Unamuno Bernardino de Sahagún Henry O'Neill Flora de Pablo Other notable...
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    Criticón, influenced European philosophers such as Schopenhauer Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484–1566), humanist, advocate of the rights of Native Americans...
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  • Domingo de Vico set out from Spain on 9 July 1544 with a group led by Bartolomé de las Casas in an effort to enforce the New Laws that had been issued in 1542...
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  • Iberoamericana, 92-93 (1975), 469-477. “Bartolomé de las Casas, iniciador de la narrativa de protesta,” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, VII...
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  • mainland and had particular success in Guatemala. A disciple of the famed Indian protector, Bartolomé de las Casas, Father de Cáncer's efforts were so successful...
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