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	Mexican state name etymologies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mexican territory of Upper California, or Alta California, would in 1848 become the US states of California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona and Wyoming.) See also: Origin of the name California.
		Campeche takes its name from the city of Campeche, which was founded in 1540 by Spanish Conquistadores as San Francisco de Campeche atop the preexisting Maya city of Canpech or Kimpech.
		This name was given to the first Spanish city in New Spain by Hernán Cortés in 1519, in the form La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, "The Rich Village of the True Cross".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mexican_state_name_etymologies (587 words)

	Mexico - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Soon after achieving its independence from Spain, the Mexican government, in an effort to populate its sparsely-settled hinterlands, awarded land grants in a remote area of the northernmost state of Coahuila y Tejas to hundreds of immigrant families from the United States, on the condition that the settlers convert to Catholicism and assume Mexican citizenship.
		As president, in 1834 Santa Anna abrogated the federal constitution, causing insurgencies in the southern state of Yucatán and the northernmost portion of the northern state of Coahuila y Tejas.
		A similar case is that of the Plautdietsch language, spoken by the desendents of German and Dutch menonite immigrants in the states of Chihuahua and Durango.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Mexico (3505 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> ms:Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Second Mexican Empire was then overthrown by the Zapotec Benito JuÃ¡rez, with diplomatic and logistical support from the United States and the military expertise of General Porfirio DÃaz.
		A similar case is that of the Plautdietsch language, spoken by the descendants of German and Dutch Mennonite immigrants in the states of Chihuahua and Durango.
		The Mexican "distance-learning" secondary education is also transmitted to some Central American countries and to Colombia, and it is used in some southern regions of the United States as a method of bilingual education.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/ms:Mexico (5625 words)

	wikien.info: Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This Second Mexican Empire was fought off by then president of the Republic, the Zapotec Indian Benito Juárez, with diplomatic and logistical support from the United States and the military savvy of General Porfirio Díaz, also of part Amerindian heritage.
		The Mexi part of the name is from Mexitli, the name of a war god, whose name was derived from metztli (the moon) and xictli (navel) and thus mean "navel (probably implying 'child') of the moon".
		A cultural side-effect of the fact that Mexicans use México /'mexikəʊ/ and Spaniards sometimes use Méjico is the occasional boiling-over of negative sentiment towards the old colonial oppressor.
	www.wikien.info /index.php?title=Mexico (1872 words)

	Mexico - ThinksBig.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		North of Mexico are the United States, south of Mexico are Guatemala and Belize.
		But the Mexicans were not happy with him, and in 1823 the country became a republic.
		Almost 30% of the Mexicans is Native American and 9% is European.
	www.thinksbig.com /Mexican (1056 words)

	Mexicali Definition / Mexicali Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Situated along the state's northern border with the U.S stateA U.S. state is any one of the 50 states which have membership of the federation known as the United States of America (USA or U.S.).
		The separate state governments and the U.S. federal government share sovereignty, in that an American citizen is a citizen both of the federal entity and of their state of residence....
		Mexicali is the capital of the state of Baja California.
	www.elresearch.com /Mexicali (216 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Mexican state name etymologies
		See also: Mexico, List of subnational name etymologies.
		The Mexican territory of Upper California, or Alta California, would in 1848 become the US states of California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona and Wyoming.)
		Oaxaca takes its name from the Nahuatl term for the Central Valley around the capital, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, "Huaxyácac", which means "place of the guaje trees" (Leuceana leucocephala).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Mexican_state_name_etymologies (416 words)

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		Jeolla - from the first characters in the city names Jeonju and Naju (The first character of Naju is actually "ra"—"r" changes to "n" in the initial position, and the combination "nr" changes to "ll" due to phonological characteristics of the Korean language).
		Tasman - district named from the bay name, in honour of Dutchman Abel Tasman, commander of first European expedition to sight the country; also a mountain and glacier name.
		Sakhalin -- derived from misinterpretation of a Manchu name "sahaliyan ula angga hada" (peak of the mouth of Amur River).
	list_of_subnational_name_etymologies.iqexpand.com (2152 words)

	Mexico - WIKIb2b (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Template:Otheruses Template:PortalThe United Mexican States or Mexico (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or México; regarding the use of the variant spelling Méjico, see section The name below) is a country located in North America, bordered by the United States to the north, and Belize and Guatemala to the southeast.
		In the 1840s, Mexico was invaded and defeated by the United States, which demanded and received roughly one-half of the country's remaining territory, from which were formed the modern states of California, Nevada, and Utah, and most of Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado (see Mexican-American War).
		A cultural side-effect of the fact that Mexicans use México Template:IPA and Spaniards sometimes use Méjico is the occasional boiling-over of negative sentiment towards the old colonial oppressor.
	www.wiki-b2b.com /index.php/Mexico (5209 words)

	States of Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		New Mexico State's shooting wasn't much better at 37.9 percent, but it...
		ETI Preparing Proposal to Investigate Lake Valsequillo; Massive Undertaking by Governor of the State of Puebla, Mexico.
		Mexico is divided into 31 states (estados) and 1 Federal District (Distrito Federal), which contains the capital, Mexico City.
	hallencyclopedia.com /States_of_Mexico (293 words)

	Saltillo Definition / Saltillo Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is the current capital of the stateMexico is divided into 31 states (estados) and 1 Federal District (Distrito Federal), which contains the capital, Mexico City.
		Coahuila additionally borders on the Mexican states of Nuevo León to the east; San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas to the south; and Durango and Chihuahua to the west.
		Saltillo is the capital of the State of Coahuila and is located 869 km from Mexico City by way of Federal Highways 57 and 45.
	www.elresearch.com /Saltillo (225 words)

	Western fiction
		Western fiction is a genre of literature that is typically set in any of the American states west of the Mississippi River and between the years of approximately 1860 and 1900.
		The Western got its start in the "penny dreadfuls" and later the "dime novels" that first began to be published in the mid-nineteenth century.
		In the 1970s, the work of Louis L'Amour began to catch hold of most western readers and he has tended to dominate the western reader lists ever since.
	www.kiwipedia.com /western-fiction.html (465 words)

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		It is possible that the name Liège has the same origin as the ancient name of Paris, i.e.
		Baden: after the city of Baden-Baden, formerly Baden, the name became reduplicated to distinguish it from the state (as in "Baden in Baden").
		Champions of this etymology believe it refers to the fl cotton soil of central Maharashtra, which however quickly turns red as one moves southward.
	homestayfinder.com /Dictionary.aspx?q=List_of_subnational_name_etymologies (3766 words)

	Mexico - Enpsychlopedia
		Template:Portal The United Mexican States or Mexico (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or México; regarding the use of the variant spelling Méjico, see section The name below) is a country located in North America, bordered by the United States to the north, and Belize and Guatemala to the southeast.
		Islam is mainly practiced by members of the Arab, Turkish, and other expatriate communities, though there is a very small number of the indegenious population in Chiapas state that practice Islam.
		In the Nahuatl language, from which the name originally derived, the name for Mexico is Mēxihco (IPA /meː.ɕiʔ.ko/).
	www.enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/Mexico (5250 words)

	All words on Mexico
		Napoleon III of France, Emperor of France, imposed Maximillian as Emperor of Mexico from 1864 to 1867.
		Main article: States of Mexico Mexico is divided into 31 states (''estados'') and the Mexican Federal District (''Distrito Federal'').
		Main article: Geography of Mexico Situated in the southwestern part of mainland North America and roughly triangular in shape, Mexico stretches more than 3000 km (1,850 miles) from northwest to southeast.
	www.allwords.org /me/mexico.html (2180 words)

	Mexico: new mexico, mexico city, gulf of mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mexico responded by declaring war on the United States resulting in the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848.
		Mexico was defeated by the United States, resulting in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo, where the United States purchased the remaining disputed territories for $15 Million Dollars, from which were formed the modern states of California, Nevada, and Utah, and most of Arizona, new mexico">new mexico, and Colorado (see Mexican-American War).
		On January 1, 1994, Mexico became a full member of the North American Free Trade Agreement, joining the United States of America and Canada in a large economic bloc with these two countries that have been more prosperous.
	www.winelib.com /wiki/Mexico (3932 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Mexican state (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Mexican state; all previous versions may be viewed here.
		They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Mexican_state (191 words)

	Mexico - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For other uses of this term, see Mexico (disambiguation).
		A stucco relief in the Palenque museum, Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico
		In the Nahuatl language, from which the name originally derived, the name for Mexico is Mexihco (International Phonetic Alphabet /me?.?i?.ko/).
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Mexico (5624 words)

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		A new study shows that New Mexico may have as many as 108,000 problem gamblers, but it's also quick to say that there's little data on the problem specific to the state.
		They say the car did not stop at a stop sign.
		The U.S. State Dept. is coordinating the deployment of a nationwide electronic-surveillance system in Mexico, a project that will enable the Agencia Federal de Investigaciones (AFI) to intercept phone conversations and online messages from every telecommunications network within Mexico.
	www.basketballliving.com /allabout/Mexico (6033 words)

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