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Meaning of latinoamérica



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The word 'Latin America' originates from the Trojan War, ending in the Napoleonic attempt to land in Mexico or Argentina by extending its conquests to the New Continent. When Aeneas (the one from La Aeida) returns to her son Ascanio of Asia Minor meets Lavinia, daughter of King Latinio, and marries her staying in her territory. There all the returning soldiers begin to gather from the war, founding a city called Lazio by eponymy under the name of the father-in-law of Aeneas. Its inhabitants were the original Latins, and were part of the mythical founding peoples of Rome, another city that would later become an empire, dominating from Italy to Antioch and Lusitania. Although by the fifteenth century this empire no longer existed, its influence was still in the culture and language that gave rise to Romance languages such as French, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese or Italian. When the new colonial empires conquered America (eponymous of Américo Vespucio), they brought their languages heirs from Latin which, except for some English or Dutch colonies, spread throughout the continent. The most widespread is Spanish, which is spoken where there were Spanish colonies (from California to Tierra del Fuego); followed by Portuguese, which is spoken in Brazil; and to a much lesser extent French, since their possessions were mainly Caribbean islands, part of Canada and a Guyana. After 1808 Napoleon's armies invaded Spain and Portugal, and the next medium-term French movement would be made of their colonies. But there was a minor question, almost a formality what would the Imperial France call its new lands? The most common name was Latin America, because most of it was Spanish; if we add to Brazil, the name would be Ibero-America. But France couldn't fit anywhere, so they invented the very creative Latin American name, taking advantage of the french, like Spanish and Portuguese, being languages from Latin. This name is still used to call the subcontinent, and "Latin American" - with its apocopized "Latin" form - its inhabitants. See Sud lacquer , banana.

  



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It is the whole formed by the union of all Latin countries of America. It's the same as Latin America. A set of countries that have in common the origin of their respective languages in Latin, which allows to bring together not only those who speak Spanish, but also those of Portuguese or French language. This is an ethnic-geographical concept.

  

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LATIN AMERICAN geopolitical region that corresponds, from north to south, to Mexico, all Central America, except Belize, and all of South America, except Guyana and Surunam, that is, all Spanish-, Portuguese (Brazil) or French-speaking countries (Haiti and French Guiana). HISPANOAMERICA] /E] differs in that it considers only Spanish-speaking countries and also includes Spain. Ibero-America includes Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Americans, as well as Spain and Portugal.

  










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