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    trading/shipping port and the capital city. The island's name was changed to Porto Rico by the United States after the Treaty of Paris of 1898. The anglicized...
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  • Look up Porto Rico or Portorico in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Porto Rico is an old variant spelling of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of...
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    Military Government of Porto Rico (Spanish: Gobierno Militar de Puerto Rico), was a provisional military government in Puerto Rico that was established...
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    Royal Cédula of Graces of 1815, the name of Puerto Rico was translated into English as Porto Rico by the Spanish civil authorities overseeing the Royal...
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    The Insular Government of Porto Rico (Spanish: Gobierno Insular de Puerto Rico), known as the Insular Government of Puerto Rico after May 17, 1932, was...
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  • de Porto Rico, Op. 31, is a musical composition for piano by American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk written from 1857 during a tour in Puerto Rico. Dedicated...
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    The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit. 'Free Associated State of Puerto Rico') is an unincorporated territory...
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    in Puerto Rico at least for a year. It took the group two years to meet these regulations, but in 1902 the First National Bank of Porto Rico was inaugurated...
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  • 1910. The company was incorporated on November 15, 1900, as the South Porto Rico Sugar Company by German-American businessmen. In 1901, construction of...
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  • Balzac v. Porto Rico, 258 U.S. 298 (1922), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that certain provisions of the U.S. Constitution...
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