trading/shipping port and the capital city. The island's name was changed to Porto Rico by the United States after the Treaty of Paris of 1898. The anglicized...
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Look up Porto Rico or Portorico in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Porto Rico is an old variant spelling of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of...
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Royal Cédula of Graces of 1815, the name of Puerto Rico was translated into English as Porto Rico by the Spanish civil authorities overseeing the Royal...
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Military Government of Porto Rico (Spanish: Gobierno militar estadounidense de Puerto Rico or Gobierno militar americano de Puerto Rico), was a provisional...
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The Insular Government of Porto Rico (Spanish: Gobierno Insular de Puerto Rico), known as the Insular Government of Puerto Rico after May 17, 1932, was...
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65th Infantry Regiment (United States) (redirect from Porto Rico Regiment)
the creation of the first body of native troops in Puerto Rico. On 30 June 1901, the "Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry" was organized. On 1 July...
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Gulf and Western Industries (redirect from South Porto Rico Sugar Company)
South Puerto Rico Sugar Company (1967), a holding company in Jersey City, New Jersey, with a principal subsidiary, called South Porto Rico Sugar Company...
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in Puerto Rico at least for a year. It took the group two years to meet these regulations, but in 1902 the First National Bank of Porto Rico was inaugurated...
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Agwilines Inc (redirect from New York & Porto Rico Line)
lines in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s: Ward Line Clyde line Mallory Line Porto Rico Line Later the Clyde-Mallory Lines Agwilines Inc had offices in: New York...
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be given to criminal defendants in Puerto Rico. (see Dorr v. United States. See also Balzac v. Porto Rico The Court relied on Downes and Balzac to justify...
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Balzac v. Porto Rico, 258 U.S. 298 (1922), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that certain provisions of the U.S. Constitution...
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Insular Cases (redirect from Huus v. New York & Porto Rico S.S. Co.)
Argued: January 8–11, 1901; Decided: May 27, 1901 Huus v. New York and Porto Rico Steamship Co., 182 U.S. 392 (1901); Argued: January 11, 14, 1901; Decided:...
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base of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry (on January 15, 1899, the military government changed the name of Puerto Rico to Porto Rico and on May 17...
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September 21, 2017. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16,...
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Rico Sugar Company was an American sugar refining company based in New Jersey. The company was incorporated on November 15, 1900, as the South Porto Rico...
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Puerto Rico, 1899, United States. War Dept. Porto Rico Census Office (in Spanish). Imprenta del gobierno. p. 163. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899"...
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ISBN 9781461520696. Reid, Harry Fielding; Taber, Stephen (1919). The Porto Rico earthquake of 1918 with descriptions of earlier earthquakes: Report of...
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Hispano Americana en Puerto Rico Parte VI" (in Spanish). Coqui.net. Retrieved September 19, 2007. "Last Spanish Ruler in Porto Rico Dies". Democrat and Chronicle...
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de Porto Rico, Op. 31, is a musical composition for piano by American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk written from 1857 during a tour in Puerto Rico. Dedicated...
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of Ipojuca, where Porto de Galinhas lies, was established on November 12, 1895. According to history the town was called Porto Rico (Rich Port) until...
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Civic Architecture in Porto Rico, 1920 Having been a Spanish possession until 1898, the system of local government in Puerto Rico bears more resemblance...
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September 21, 2017. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16,...
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The 1899 Puerto Rico census (Porto Rico was also used) was a national population census held in Puerto Rico and first under U.S. control by the U.S. Census...
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September 21, 2017. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16,...
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book Cuba and Porto Rico, Robert Thomas Hill listed jíbaros as one of four socio-economic classes he perceived existed in Puerto Rico at the time: "The...
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September 21, 2017. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16,...
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September 21, 2017. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16,...
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September 21, 2017. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16,...
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September 21, 2017. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16,...
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September 21, 2017. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16,...
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