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  Canary Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Canary Islands IPA/kəˈnæɹɪ ˈaɪləndz/ (Spanish Islas Canarias /ˈis.las kaˈnarjas/) (28° 06'N, 15° 24'W) are an archipelago of the Kingdom of Spain consisting of seven islands of volcanic origin in the Atlantic Ocean.
Lancelotto Malocello settled on the island of Lanzarote in 1312.
In 1402, the conquest of the islands began, with the expedition of Juan de Bethencourt and Gadifer de la Salle to the island of Lanzarote, Norman nobles who were vassals of Henry III of Castile.
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 flag of Canarian Nationalist Flags (Spain) flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de
The MPAIAC led by Antonio Cubillo, who was exiled in Algiers, adopted on 22nd October 1964 the same flag as the Free Canary Islands but in equal bands and with seven green stars in the central blue.
Currently the flag with the seven stars is very often used by the people, and there exists a proposal for the Communist Party of the Canary Islands.
It was created in Algiers on 22nd October 1964 as the flag of the MPAIAC and in due time it became the national flag of the Canaries, adopted by most nationalist parties.
www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/es}ic.html   (730 words)

  
 Canary Islands (Spain)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The islands were occupied by Catalans near 1300 and by Castile in the 15th century.
The first modern flag for the island was hoisted in the early 20th century at the home of a cultural society called Ateneo (Atheneum).
In 1907 another flag was proposed (very similar to the current Saint Lucia flag but with a red background), the triangle (mountain) blue, and the upper part white (snow).
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 Canary islands Hotels
The Canary Islands are Spain's tropical paradise and for Spaniards living in mainland Spain they are synonymous with holidays, as they are for the hundreds and thousands of foreign tourists who pack the islands' resorts all year round.
The seven islands differ greatly in landscape and environment, but are alike in the quality of their beaches - many of which have been awarded an EU blue flag - and a climate which gives no ground to bad weather.
Modern contact with the Canaries began to develop in the Middle Ages as sailors from peninsular Spain arrived to plunder the isles of their orchids, which were used to make dye, and of their inhabitants, who were enslaved.
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 History of the Flag of the Canary Islands
In 1961, the Free Canaries Movement (movimiento Canarias Libre) initiated the creation of the national symbol on a foundation of three colors: white, blue, and yellow, in vertical stripes, but without specifying the shade of blue or yellow, nor the ratio of the stripes.
The seven green stars were not incorporated in the earlier flag since the majority of the members of Free Canaries, founded in Tamarant in 1961, had no knowledge of the cerulean flag history of the seven white stars.
In 1975, eleven years after the flag was described in the MPAIAC's founding document, the Canarian national flag was displayed next to the other national flags of Amazigh Africa in a scene of the play, "The war of two thousand years," by the great Amazigh author from Algeria, Kateb Yacine.
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 Canary Islands - Uncyclopedia
The quasi-autonomous Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of northwestern Africa, are home to the world's largest natural animal colony, consisting mainly of canaries.
The psychologist is there on the Islands to provide counselling to the canaries to help them deal with their deep-seated identity crisis.
On the other hand, the canaries are seeking self-determination, i.e., the right to assert their own zoological and political status.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Canary_Islands   (269 words)

  
 History
The first evidences of flags linked with the Canaries are the banners shown in the drawings illustrating the manuscripts of Le Canarien, common title of the two chronicles on the conquest of the islands by Jéan de Béthencourt and Gadifer de La Salle.
The first legal stipulation with respect to a flag for the Canary Islands is the Royal Order of 30 July 1845, establishing the maritime registry flag for all the ports of the then single province, with its capital in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
This is the first time that stars appear in a flag intending to identify the Canary Islands, this time white and placed on a blue background in a distribution that schematically reproduces the position of the seven islands on the map.
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The flag of South Korea is white with a red-and-blue yin-yang symbol surrounded by four fl trigrams from the I Ching.
The castle on the Balearic Islands flag is a formidable fortress.
To the south are the islands of Montserrat and Guadaloupe, and to the north and west are St. Kitts and Nevis.
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 Canary Islands tax regime - Quick Guide
From the XV century to modern times, the Canary Islands have had a different tax and trading system because of the island factor and their remoteness.These historic rights have taken the form of a quasi-free trade regime, within a context of protectionism that has varied in degree from one period to another.
All of this guarantees the stability of the special fiscal status of the Canary Islands, although it is subject to the conditions and controls of the European Commission, the institution in charge of ensuring compliance with community law.
The investment deduction in the Canary Islands can also be applied to used fixed assets, provided that: they have not previously benefited from the investment deduction of the general regime and that they represent a technological improvement for the company.
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 Canary Islands
All breeds of canary bird existing in the world descend from the wild canary bird, "serinus canarius", still living and singing in the islands' fields and forests.
During the 15th century, the island of Canaria became famous for the brave defense deployed by their natives against the landings of the conquistadores.
The legendary *canes* (dogs) of the Canaries are the emblematic figures who held the coat of arms in the official Seal of the islands.
www.ctspanish.com /communities/canary/canary.htm   (969 words)

  
 canary islands map and information page
Once known to the ancient Romans as the Fortunate Islands, the Canary Islands were named after the large dogs (Canes) found living on the islands.
Located off the northwestern coast of Africa, the Canary Islands are one of the most popular tourist destination on the planet, especially with Europeans.
The Canary Islands' pages are currently being revised, but you can find additional information about their history here.
www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/europe/canary.htm   (332 words)

  
 Tenerife - Enpsychlopedia
As on the other islands of the same group, much of the native population of Tenerife was enslaved or succumbed to diseases at the same time as immigrants from various associated parts of the Spanish Empire (Portugal, Flanders, Italy, Germany) settled on the island.
Native pine forests on the island were cleared to make way for the cultivation of sugarcane in the 1520s; in succeeding centuries, the island’s economy was centered around the cultivation of other commodities such as wine and cochineal for making dyes, as well as bananas.
The airline collision that took place on March 27, 1977, in Los Rodeos, an airport in the north of the island, known as the Tenerife disaster, was the deadliest aircraft disaster in history until the September 11, 2001 attacks and remains the deadliest aviation accident in history.
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 US Office @ Canary Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The acquisition of fixed assets, which are located or received in the Canary Islands, used there and necessary to develop the business activities of the taxpayer or contribute to the improvement or protection of the environment in such Territory.
For this purpose, aero planes based in the Canary Islands, and ships flying Spanish flag and registered in these Islands, including the ships registered in the Special Register for Ships and Shipping Companies, shall be considered as located and used in the Canary Islands.
The taking up of securities or account entries of public debt concerning the Canary regional Government, local collectivities or their public companies or autonomous bodies, as long as it is for the purpose of financing investments in relation to infrastructures or environment improvement and protection in the Canary Islands up to 50% of the contributions.
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 Secret Tenerife: Dog symbol of the Canary Islands Disappears
The Canary Dog is one of the oldest symbols of the history of the Canary Islands and has existed since the time of the aboriginals.
The positioning of the dogs, on guard, horizontal, on the shield and the flag of the Canary Islands, which at the moment are unmovable, because to change it would require a change in the Statute, is not an aesthetic one, but one that represents the force of the animal.
The English dogs that decorate the plaza of Santa Ana, in Vegueta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, which arrived in the island in 1895 are another example of the tradition of the dog in the Canaries.
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 British Virgin Islands flag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
First settled by the Dutch in 1648, the islands were annexed in 1672 by the English.
The economy, one of the most stable and prosperous in the Caribbean, is highly dependent on tourism, generating an estimated 45% of the national income.
Livestock raising is the most important agricultural activity; poor soils limit the islands' ability to meet domestic food requirements.
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 Flags of Spain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Each of the 17 independent regions has a flag.
If you have a flag or know of a location with any of the missing flags, please drop me a line.
I am sorry, I can not provide you with any information as to were to locate flags, other than what is listed.
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 Confederate Rebel Flag T-Shirts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Confederate flag and Rebel flag t-shirts are available for most designs in youth and adult sizes.
These extra large 12" x 16" designs are not available in the youth small size because of the size of the image.
The flag designs and sizes shown on our website are almost always in stock.
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 Canary Islands flag and description
The Canary Islands are an autonomous region of Spain.
The flag shown above is the civil flag, and we have no symbolic information on it.
All maps, graphics and original descriptions created by Graphic Maps, a d/b/a of the Woolwine-Moen Group, unless otherwise noted and/or directly linked to the source, and use of same for any application whatsoever (with the exception of outline maps) requires written permission.
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 Best Islands for Boardsailing | Outside Online
Wide beaches and sartorially challenged German sunbathers dominate this arid Spanish island 70 miles west of Morocco.
At Flag Beach, low pressure from the Sahara pumps in sideshore winds and Atlantic storms kick up jumpable swells.
Kneel at the feet of the airborne masters of Hookipa's North Shore and perfect your carve-jibe in the sideshore trades off Kanaha Beach Park.
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 Municipality of La Laguna (Tenerife Island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands, Spain)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Municipality of La Laguna (Tenerife Island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Province, Canary Islands, Spain)
La Laguna, the former capital of Tenerife (formerly Santa Cruz was simply its harbour), has a purple (neither crimson nor purpure etc.) flag with the coat-of-arms in the centre, though smaller than on other Tenerife flags, about only one fourth of the flag's height, certainly much smaller than in José Manuel Erbez's website.
La Laguna's flag is Tenerife island's (and probably the Canary Islands') oldest flag.
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