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Omoa

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Omoa is a town and a municipality in the Department of Cortés of Honduras. [1]

21 relations: Battista Antonelli, Battle of San Fernando de Omoa, Captaincy General of Guatemala, Caribbean Sea, Cortés Department, Fatu Hiva, Honduras, Juan Galindo, Köppen climate classification, Marquesas Islands, Municipalities of Honduras, Pedro de Alvarado, Piracy, Puerto Cortés, Repartimiento, Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922), Royal Navy, San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa, Tropical rainforest climate, Trujillo, Honduras.

Battista Antonelli

Battista Antonelli (or Bautista) (1547–1616) was a military engineer from a prestigious Italian family of military engineers in the service of the Habsburg monarchs of Austria and Spain.

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Battle of San Fernando de Omoa

The Battle of San Fernando de Omoa was a short siege and battle between British and Spanish forces fought not long after Spain entered the American Revolutionary War on the American side.

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Captaincy General of Guatemala

The Captaincy General of Guatemala (Capitanía General de Guatemala), also known as the Kingdom of Guatemala (Spanish: Reino de Guatemala), was an administrative division of the Spanish Empire, under the viceroyalty of New Spain in Central America, including the present-day nations of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize and Guatemala, and the Mexican state of Chiapas.

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Caribbean Sea

The Caribbean Sea (Mar Caribe; Mer des Caraïbes; Caraïbische Zee) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.

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Cortés Department

Cortés is one of the 18 departments into which Honduras is divided.

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Fatu Hiva

Fatu Hiva (the "H" is not pronounced, see name section below) is the southernmost island of the Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.

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Honduras

Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras (República de Honduras), is a republic in Central America.

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Juan Galindo

Juan Galindo (1802–1839) was a Central American explorer and army officer.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Marquesas Islands

The Marquesas Islands (Îles Marquises or Archipel des Marquises or Marquises; Marquesan: Te Henua (K)enana (North Marquesan) and Te FenuaEnata (South Marquesan), both meaning "the land of men") are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean.

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Municipalities of Honduras

Honduras is administratively divided into 18 departments which are subdivided into 298 municipalities.

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Pedro de Alvarado

Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras (Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, ca. 1485 – Guadalajara, New Spain, 4 July 1541) was a Spanish conquistador and governor of Guatemala.

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Piracy

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable items or properties.

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Puerto Cortés

Puerto Cortés, originally known as Puerto de Caballos, is a city on the north Caribbean coast of Honduras, right on the Laguna de Alvarado, north of San Pedro Sula and east of Omoa, with a natural bay.

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Repartimiento

The Repartimiento (Spanish, "distribution, partition, or division") was a colonial forced labor system imposed upon the indigenous population of Spanish America and the Philippines.

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Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922)

The Royal Irish Regiment, until 1881 the 18th Regiment of Foot, was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, first raised in 1684.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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San Pedro Sula

San Pedro Sula is the capital of Cortés Department, Honduras.

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Tegucigalpa

Tegucigalpa (formally Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District, Tegucigalpa, Municipio del Distrito Central or Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.), colloquially referred to as Téguz, is the capital and largest city of Honduras along with its twin sister, Comayagüela.

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Tropical rainforest climate

A tropical rainforest climate, also known as an equatorial climate, is a tropical climate usually (but not always) found along the equator.

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Trujillo, Honduras

Trujillo is a city and a municipality on the northern Caribbean coast of the Honduran department of Colón, of which the city is the capital.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omoa

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