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BARACOA , a seaport See also:city of N.E. See also:Cuba, in See also:Santiago See also:province. Pop. (1907) 5633. The See also:town lies under high hills on a small circular See also:harbour accessible to small See also:craft. The See also:country See also:round about is extremely rugged. The See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill called the " See also:Anvil of Baracoa " (about 3000 ft.) is remarkable for its extremely See also:regular formation. It completely dominates the city's background, and is a well-known sailors' landmark. The town is the trading centre of a large See also:plantation region behind it and is the centre of the See also:banana and cocoanut export See also:trade. There is a fort dating from the See also:middle of the 18th See also:century. Baracoa is the See also:oldest town in Cuba, having been settled by Diego See also:Velazquez in 1512. It held from its See also:foundation the honours of a city. From 1512 to 1514 it was the See also:capital of the See also:island, and from -1518 to 1522 its See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church was the See also:cathedral of the island's first See also:diocese. Both honours were taken from it to be given to Santiago de Cuba; and for two centuries after this Baracoa remained an obscure See also:village, with little See also:commerce. In the 16th century it was repeatedly plundered by pirates until it came to terms with them, gave them welcome harbourage, and based a less See also:precarious existence upon continuous illicit trade. Until the middle of the 18th century Baracoa was almost without connexion with See also:Havana and Santiago. In the See also:wars of the end of the century it was a See also:place of See also:deposit for See also:French and See also:Spanish corsairs. At this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, too, about Too fugitive immigrant families from Santo Domingo greatly augmented its See also:industrial importance. In 1807 an unsuccessful attack was made upon the city by an See also:English force. In 1826 the See also:port was opened to See also:foreign commerce.
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