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Almirante is the Spanish and Portuguese word for admiral. It may also refer to: Places * Almirante, original name of Laurel Hill, Florida, a city in U.S. * Almirante, Bocas del Toro, a city in Panama * Almirante District, a district of Bocas del Toro Province in Panama * Almirante Ice Fringe, Graham Land, Antarctica Other uses * ''El Almirante'', a slave ship captured by in 1829 * Almirante (board game), a Portuguese strategy board game See also * Amirante (other) * Almirante (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * Almirante Williams (other) ''Almirante Williams'' is the name that has been given to several ships belonging to the Chilean Navy. They are named after Chilean Admiral Juan Williams Rebolledo (1825–1910). * Almirante Lynch-class destroyer (1912), Chilean destroyer ''Almira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Admiral
Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies. In the Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general in the army or the air force, and is above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet, or fleet admiral. Etymology The word in Middle English comes from Anglo-French , "commander", from Medieval Latin , . These evolved from the Arabic () – (), “king, prince, chief, leader, nobleman, lord, a governor, commander, or person who rules over a number of people,” and (), the Arabic article answering to “the.” In Arabic, admiral is also represented as (), where () means the sea. The 1818 edition of Samuel Johnson's '' A Dictionary of the English Language'', edited and revised by the Rev. Henry John Todd, states that the term “has been traced to the Arab. emir or amir, lord or commander, and the Gr. , the sea, q. d. ''prince of the sea''. The word is written both with and without the d, in other languages, as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Hill, Florida
Laurel Hill is a city in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. The population was 537 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Fort Walton Beach– Crestview– Destin Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Laurel Hill is located at (30.965369, –86.459149). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 549 people, 223 households, and 158 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 254 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 77.23% White, 21.68% African American, 0.18% Native American, 0.73% from other races, and 0.18% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.09% of the population. There were 223 households, out of which 30.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.8% were married couples living together, 17.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.1% wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almirante, Bocas Del Toro
Almirante is the head city of Almirante District of the Bocas del Toro Province in the Republic of Panama. Its name is Spanish for admiral. History Almirante was built by the United Fruit Company at the beginning of the 20th century as a port for its banana exports, the area consisted of landfills on swamps; host UFCO main offices until the year 1970. Its first settlers were mostly black Jamaicans and the Lesser Antilles who moved to work on the banana plantations in the early 1900s. Due to the importance of the port of Almirante, it also attracted Chinese, Hindu and Jewish merchants in the early 1950s; Since 2002, a massive migration of Chinese entered the entire province, so it is normal to see them in their businesses. Almirante was hit by a strong earthquake on April 22, 1991, wooden houses were mostly destroyed, so the Government decided to build new houses on the outskirts. Geography Almirante has a land area of and average altitude of 15 meters; and it´s surrounded by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almirante District
Almirante is a district (''distrito'') of Bocas del Toro Province in Panama. It was created by Law 39 on 8 June 2015, in which it was split off from Changuinola District. Administrative divisions Almirante District is divided administratively into the following '' corregimientos'': * Puerto Almirante * Nance de Risco * Valle del Risco * Valle de Aguas Arriba * Barriada Guaymí * Barrio Francés Barrio Francés is a corregimiento in Bocas del Toro Province in the Republic of Panama. Main Structures * Almirante Elementary School * Baptist Church * Catholic Church * Chiquita Banana port. * Colegio Parroquial San Jose * Colón Island fer ... References {{Districts of Panama Districts of Bocas del Toro Province 2015 establishments in Panama States and territories established in 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almirante Ice Fringe
Almirante Ice Fringe () is a narrow ice piedmont bordering the southwest side of Andvord Bay on Danco Coast, Graham Land, Antarctica. Named by the Polish Antarctic Expedition, about 1995, after the Almirante Brown Antarctic Base on nearby Coughtrey Peninsula, Paradise Harbor. See also *List of Antarctic expeditions This list of Antarctic expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions involving Antarctica. Although the existence of a southern continent had been hypothesized as early as the writings of Ptolemy in the 1st century AD, the South Pole was no ... References * Ice piedmonts of Graham Land Poland and the Antarctic Danco Coast {{DancoCoast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almirante (board Game)
Almirante, the Game of Sea Domination, is a Portuguese strategy board game for up to six players. The object of the game is to dominate the center of the seas and of the board. The game was created and is produced by Jogos Almirante, Lda., a company founded in 2014 by young entrepreneurs. Game Play "Almirante" is Portuguese for "admirals". Each of the 2 to 6 players command both a merchant and a war navy with the objective of controlling the geostrategic Geostrategy, a subfield of geopolitics, is a type of foreign policy guided principally by geographical factors as they inform, constrain, or affect political and military planning. As with all strategies, geostrategy is concerned with matching m ... center of the ocean. Players use winds and coins to build and operate their fleets, with predetermined values of wind necessary to move a fishing boat or a galleon, for example, and coin to build different types of vessels. Both resources, wind and coin, can be traded by paying a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amirante (other)
Amirante may refer to: People * John Amirante (1934–2018), American singer * Salvatore Amirante (born 1984), Italian footballer Places * Amirante Islands The Amirante Islands (''Les Amirantes'') are a group of coral islands and atolls that belong to the Outer Islands of the Seychelles. They stretch about 155 km from the African Banks (African Islands) in the north to Desnœufs (Isle des No ..., Seychelles See also * Almirante (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almirante (surname)
Almirante is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ernesto Almirante (1877–1964), Italian actor * Giacomo Almirante (1875–1944), Italian actor * Giorgio Almirante (1914–1988), Italian neo-fascist politician * Luigi Almirante Luigi Almirante (30 September 1884 – 6 May 1963) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in 62 films between 1921 and 1955. Life and career The son of a stage actor, Almirante was born in Tunis, where the theatrical company of ... (1884–1963), Italian actor * Mario Almirante (1890–1964), Italian film director and screenwriter {{surname Italian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
