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5 unusual facts about Mérida, Mérida


Estadio Metropolitano de Mérida

The Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano de Mérida or Estadio Metropolitano is a soccer stadium located in the city of Mérida in Venezuela.

Fernando Báez

Báez has a degree in education and a docorate in library science and worked for several years at the University of the Andes in Mérida.

Mauricio Sanchez

Born and raised in Mérida, Venezuela, Sanchez is the son of local hoteliers Manuel and Rosarito Sanchez-Hernandez.

Richard Páez

Born in Mérida, Páez played club football for Estudiantes de Mérida, Portuguesa, Deportivo Táchira and Universidad de Los Andes.

Scea discinota

It is known almost exclusively from localities close to the city of Mérida in Venezuela.


Alexei Shirov

Shirov is the winner of numerous international tournaments: Biel 1991, Madrid 1997 (shared first place with Veselin Topalov), Ter Apel 1997, Monte Carlo 1998, Mérida 2000, two time winner of the Paul Keres Memorial Tournament in Tallinn, with victories in 2004 and 2005 just to name a few.

Ancient Roman architecture

The same concepts produced numerous bridges, some of which are still in daily use, for example the Puente Romano at Mérida in Spain, and the Pont Julian and the bridge at Vaison-la-Romaine, both in Provence, France.

Andean Teal

Mérida Teal, Anas andium altipetens (Conover, 1941) – highlands of north-west Venezuela and adjacent parts of Colombia.

Aviacsa

By the end of the year, the airline received a second BAe 146 and had initiated service from the two towns in Chiapas to Villahermosa, Mérida, Oaxaca, Chetumal, and Cancún.

Between 1992 and 1995 its main operation hubs were Mérida and Tuxtla Gutiérrez.

Border Crossing Card

BCC applicants at the consular sections in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Mérida receive a B1/B2 visa/Border Crossing foil that is affixed in the applicant’s passport instead of a card.

Borislav Stevanović

Born in Titova Mitrovica, Stevanović played club football in Yugoslavia, Spain and Romania for Radnički Niš, Mérida, Rad, Zemun, Universitatea Craiova and BASK.

Carl Johan Calleman

In 1998 he was invited to be one of the main speakers at a conference about the Mayan calendar in Mérida, Yucatán.

Claudius, Duke of Lusitania

In 587, after a count named Witteric had exposed the plot of Sunna, the Arian bishop of Mérida, to place the Visigoth Segga on the throne and probably to also kill the Catholic Méridan bishop Masona, Claudius was sent to put down the revolt.

Co-Cathedral of Saint Mary Major, Mérida

Mérida was founded in the 25 BC, with the name of Emerita Augusta, by order of Emperor Augustus, to protect a pass and a bridge over the Guadiana river.

Diario de Yucatán

Diario de Yucatán is a major, regional Mexican daily newspaper headquartered in Mérida, Yucatán.

Elena Tonetta

She won the second place in the final of the Junior World Cup, at Mérida (Mexico) in 2006.

Eulalia of Mérida

Eulalia of Mérida was a young Roman Christian martyred in Emerita, the capital of Lusitania (modern Mérida in Spain), conventionally during the persecution under Diocletian and Maximian.

Francisco Arias Cárdenas

Born at San Cristóbal in Táchira, Arias graduated from the Venezuelan Academy of Military Sciences in Caracas, the Universidad de Los Andes in Mérida, and the Pontifical Xavierian University in Bogotá, Colombia.

Gustavo Páez

Born in Mérida, Páez started his senior career playing in lowly club Academia Emeritense.

José Ignacio de Cavero y Cárdenas

Born on 29 June 1757 in Mérida, Yucatán then part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, his parents were Diego Cavero Castro and Juana de Díaz Cárdenas.

Joseph ibn Abitur

Abitur was from a very prestigious Spanish family from the city of Mérida.

Juan Antonio de Urbiztondo, Marquis of La Solana

In 1833 he was imprisoned at Mérida due to the accusation that he is supposed-to-be connection to Carlism, but he managed to escape to Portugal

Juan Coronel

Diego López de Cogolludo, Historia de Yucatán (Madrid, 1688; Mérida, 1842);

Juan Coronel (born 1569, in Spain; died 1651, at Mérida, Mexico) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary.

Mario Menéndez Rodríguez

Mario Renato Menéndez Rodríguez (b. 1937 in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico) is the director-general of Por Esto!, one of the largest daily newspaper in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.

MASTV

The wireless cable company offers service to 11 cities in Mexico; Mexico City, Guadalajara, Leon, Mérida, Monterrey, Pachuca, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Toluca, Tuxtla Gutierrez, and Villahermosa.

Mérida State Symphony Orchestra

The Mérida State Symphony Orchestra (Spanish: Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado Mérida or OSEM) is a symphony orchestra based in the Venezuelan city of Mérida.

Mérida, Mérida

Moreover, the educational development of the city due, for the most part, to its university (ULA) has contributed to the creation of museums, libraries, and centers for scientific research, such as the Center for Astronomy Research (CIDA), located a few kilometers from the city in the mountains near Apartaderos.

Popular drinks include corn liquor, mistella, and "donkey's milk", which is known as "Andean punch."

Missorium of Theodosius I

The missorium comes from a treasure of silver objects that also included two plain silver cups, now missing, discovered by a labourer in 1847 in Almendralejo, close to Mérida in the Spanish province of Badajoz.

Nazaré, Portugal

According to the Legend of Nazaré, the town derives its name from a small wooden statue of the Virgin Mary, a Black Madonna, brought by a monk in the 4th century from Nazareth, Holy Land, to a monastery near the city of Mérida, Spain, and was brought to its current place in 711 by another monk, Romano, accompanied by Roderic, the last Visigoth king.

Operation Cauldron

The video shows a flight coming in and describes the arrival of the biological agents from MRD airport in Merida, Venezuela.

Plaza Monumental Román Eduardo Sandia

Plaza Monumental Román Eduardo Sandia also known as the Plaza de Toros de Mérida is a plaza de toros first class located in the city of Mérida, Venezuela being one of the main infrastructure for cultural and artistic events to large scale of the city after the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano and the fence locations for the bullfights in the frame of the Feria Internacional del Sol.

Por Esto!

Por Esto! (English: "That's Why!") is a daily Mexican newspaper headquartered in Mérida, Yucatán.

Province of Badajoz

After Badajoz, the capital, the principal towns are Almendralejo, Azuaga, Don Benito, Jerez de los Caballeros, Mérida, Zafra, Montijo and Villanueva de la Serena.

Ratomir Dujković

Afterwards he also coached Universidad de Los Andes from Mérida and later their cross-town rivals Estudiantes.

Ricardo Dájer Nahum

Ricardo Dájer Nahum (born February 19, 1955 in Mérida, Yucatán) is a Mexican politician of Lebanese origin affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

In 1995 ran for and lost the election for the municipal president of Mérida to Patricio Patrón Laviada, current governor of the state.

Roberto Ruiz Esparza Jr.

(born 14 April 1992 in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico) is a professional footballer, currently playing as a forward for Merida in the Ascenso MX.

Roman bridge

This was to be the longest arch bridge for a thousand years both in terms of overall and individual span length, while the longest extant Roman bridge is the 790 m long Puente Romano at Mérida.

Rugby union in Venezuela

The most important tournaments are The National Championship (in Caracas), the Walter Bishop tournament (in Mérida) and the Sevens tournament (in Santa Teresa, Aragua state ).

Segga

Following Reccared's conversion from Arianism to Catholicism, a conspiracy, led by Sunna, the Arian bishop of Mérida, arose to place the Arian Segga on the throne and probably also to kill the Catholic Méridan bishop, Masona, and the duke of the province of Lusitania, Claudius.

Temple of Concord

The main temple in the Forum in Rome seems to have been a model for temples to the goddess elsewhere in the empire – a reproduction of this temple was found in Mérida (Spain), during the excavations of the town's forum in 2002.

Vía de la Plata

The Vía de La Plata (Silver Way) or Ruta de la Plata (Silver Route) is an ancient commercial and pilgrimage path that crosses the west of Spain from north to south, connecting Mérida to Astorga.

War of the Castilian Succession

The bulk of the Portuguese army was able to take refuge in Mérida and from there continued its march to Medellín, which they occupied.

His objective was to occupy and reinforce the strongholds of Mérida and Medellín, controlled by Beatriz Pacheco, Countess of Medellin and supporter of Afonso V. According to Palencia, the Portuguese army was composed of about 1,000 Knights (of which 250 were Castilians), plus infantry.

XHST-TV

Trecevisión is an educational and public television network owned and operated by the government of State of Yucatán in Merida, Yucatán.


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