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Canary Islands

Canary Islands

The canaries were named after the Canary Islands

February 19, 2014February 19, 2014 araho  Did you know that  Canary, Canary Islands

The name Islas Canarias is likely derived from the Latin name Canariae Insulae, meaning “Island of the Dogs”, a name applied originally only to Gran Canaria. According to the historian Pliny the Elder, the Mauretanian king Juba II named the island Canaria because it contained “vast multitudes of dogs of very large size”. Another speculation […]

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