Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (Template:IPAc-en or Template:IPAc-en),[note 1] offeecially the Commonweel o Puerto Rico (Spainyie: "Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico", Template:IPA-es—literally Associatit Free State o Puerto Rico), is an unincorporatit territory o the Unitit States, locatit in the northeastren Caribbean Sea, east o the Dominican Republic an wast o the Virgin Islands.
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Puerto Rico (Spainyie for "rich port") comprises an archipelago that includes the main island o Puerto Rico an a number o smawer islands, the lairgest o which are Vieques, Culebra, an Mona. The main island o Puerto Rico is the smawest bi land aurie o the Greater Antilles. It, housomeivver, ranks third in population amang that group o fower islands, which an aa include Cuba, Hispaniola, an Jamaica.
Puerto Ricans eften caw the island Borinquen, frae Borikén, its indigenous Taíno name, which means "Land o the Valiant Lord".[3][4][5] The terms boricua an borincano derive frae Borikén an Borinquen respectively, an are commonly uised tae identify someane o Puerto Rican heritage. The island is an aa popularly kent in Spainyie as "La Isla del Encanto" which means "The Island o Enchantment" in Inglis.
[edit] References
- ↑ Patricia Gherovici (2003). The Puerto Rican syndrome. Other Press, LLC, 140–141.
- ↑ Pedro A. Malavet (2004). America's colony: the political ann cultural conflict between the United States and Puerto Rico. NYU Press, 43, 181 note 76.
- ↑ Allatson, Paul. Key Terms in Latino/a Cultural and Literary Studies, p. 47. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. ISBN 1405102500.
- ↑ Dictionary: Taino Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean Retrieved: February 21, 2008. (Based on the encyclopedia "Clásicos de Puerto Rico", 2nd. edition. Ed. Cayetano Coll y Toste. Publisher: Ediciones Latinoamericanas, S.A., 1972.).
- ↑ H. B. Grose, Advance in the Antilles: the new era in Cuba and Porto Rico, Presbyterian Home Missions, 1910. Books.google.com (2006-08-08). Retrieved on 6 Februar 2011. .
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