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New Granada

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New Gra·na·da  (gr-näd)
A former Spanish viceroyalty of northern South America including present-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela. It was under Spanish rule from the 1530s to 1819.

New Granada
n
1. (Placename) a former Spanish presidency and later viceroyalty in South America. At its greatest extent it consisted of present-day Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador
2. (Placename) the name of Colombia when it formed, with Panama, part of Great Colombia (1819-30)


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The colonial situation of seventeenth-century New Granada required negotiation between diverse and conflicting social groups.
And without a new Granada Hills high school, district officials project they would be unable to meet their goal of putting local students on a traditional two-semester calendar at a neighborhood school.
He marched back across the Andes into Colombia, routing the royalist forces of New Granada.
 
 
 
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