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29 de dic. de 2023 · Los españoles construyeron un Palacio Real en Guam para el Gobernador de las Islas. Sus restos aún se podían ver en 2006. El nombre de Islas de los Ladrones aún se puede ver en cartas del siglo XIX en las que se va introduciendo el de Islas Marianas compartiendo ambos topónimos un lugar oficial.
Hace 5 días · Northern Mariana Islands, a self-governing commonwealth in association with the United States. It is composed of 14 islands and islets in the western Pacific Ocean. The commonwealth is a part of the Mariana Islands, a chain of volcanic mountain peaks and uplifted coral reefs.
Hace 3 días · It is the westernmost point and territory of the United States, reckoned from the geographic center of the U.S. In Oceania, Guam is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands and the largest island in Micronesia. As of 2022, Guam's population was 168,801.
Hace 5 días · The larger islands of Saipan, Tinian, Rota, Pagan, and Agrihan, along with Guam, became bases for Japanese expansion to the south and east. In 1943 U.S.-led Allied forces began to reduce Japanese strength in Micronesia, and in June–July 1944 the Marianas were neutralized with the recapture of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam.
Hace 4 días · Miguel López de Legazpi (1502 – 1572) was a colonial official in New Spain, Pacific explorer and conquistador who led the Spanish expedition that began the colonization of the Philippines and launched the first Asia-American trading line. His 1565 expedition visited Guam on its westward voyage from New Spain (Mexico) to Cebu in ...
Hace 4 días · Guam’s colonial history under Spain. For 3,000 years before the European “Age of Exploration,” the indigenous Chamorro existed in the Mariana Archipelago as one people, with one language and one cultural heritage—the primary ingredients for nationhood.
Hace 4 días · Before the Mariana Islands served as an official penal colony for political prisoners and criminals from Spain and her territories in the 19th century, the forzado system, or forced labor, brought many individuals to the islands in the form of conscripted laborers and soldiers.
