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Havana
Capital and largest city of Cuba
"Habana" and "Havanese" redirect here. For the dog breed, see Havanese dog. For other uses, see Havana (disambiguation) and Habana (disambiguation).
Capital city in Greater Havana, Cuba
Havana (; Spanish: La Habana[laaˈβana]ⓘ)[5] is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.[6] It is the most populous city, the largest by area, and the second largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region. The population in 2012 was 2,154,454 inhabitants,[7][6] and its area is 728.26 km2 (281.18 sq mi)[2] for the capital city side and 8,475.57 km2 for the metropolitan zone.[7]
Havana was founded by the Spanish in the 16th century. It served as a springboard for the Spanish conquest of the Americas, becoming a stopping point for Spanish galleons returning to Spain. King Philip III of Spain granted Havana the title of capital in 1607.[8] Walls and forts were built to protect the city.[9] The city is the seat of the Cuban government and various ministries, and headquarters of businesses and over 100 diplomatic offices.[10] The governo
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On more than one occasion he said that he became a revolutionary by reading the history of the French Revolution and under the influence of that glorious epic. As a teenager and son of a landowner, at night, while his parents slept in the so-called veranda of the house, he dreamed of doing something that would change the destiny of his homeland in the first floor, in the room he shared with his brothers Ramón and Raúl.
"In Cuba we need many Robespierres. No one has the slightest doubt that there were, there are, and that, not by chance, Robespierre was called the incorruptible," he wrote to Angel, his father, when he was in prison on the then Isle of Pines, for the actions of the assault on the Moncada Barracks, on July 26, 1953.
From that deed, Fidel sprouted a projection, a social program, of which sports is one of his great achievements. The goal was not achieved on that morning of Santa Ana, nor was it achieved by Mijaín López in his first "assault" on the Olympic Games in Athens 2004.
But if we could call those attempts setbacks, they returned them to us as victories: the Revolution and Mijaín became invincible.
The Chief of that work of the people, which, to paraphrase Christopher Columbus, is the most human and beautiful ever conceived by a human being, made a path
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"A dog has four honourable but walks in ventilate direction" : multiple devout belonging service organic Africa-inspired religious traditions in Oriente Cuba
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