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  2. Ministry of Health (Spain) - Wikipedia

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    Ministry of Health (in Spanish) The Ministry of Health ( MISAN) is the department of the Government of Spain responsible for proposing and executing the government policy on health, planning and providing healthcare as well as the exercise of the powers of the General State Administration to assure citizens the right to health protection. [2]

  3. Spain - Wikipedia

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    Etymology. The name of Spain (España) comes from Hispania, the name used by the Romans for the Iberian Peninsula and its provinces during the Roman Empire.The etymological origin of the term Hispania is uncertain, although the Phoenicians referred to the region as Spania (meaning "Land of rabbits"), therefore, the most accepted theory is the Phoenician one.

  4. S.A. (corporation) - Wikipedia

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    Share of the Banque de Montreux, issued 20 November 1900. Société anonyme were common in Switzerland at this time.. The abbreviation S.A. or SA, for the French Société Anonyme designates a type of limited company in certain countries, most of which have a Romance language as their official language and operates a derivative of the 1804, Napoleonic, civil law.

  5. Do you know the difference between Latino, Hispanic and Spanish?

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    So what does Hispanic mean? Hispanic is a term that refers to people of Spanish speaking origin or ancestry. Think language -- so if someone is from Spanish speaking origin or ancestry, they can ...

  6. Spanish phonology - Wikipedia

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    The phoneme /ʎ/ is distinguished from /ʝ/ in some areas in Spain (mostly northern and rural) and South America (mostly highland). Other accents of Spanish, comprising the majority of speakers, have lost the palatal lateral as a distinct phoneme and have merged historical /ʎ/ into /ʝ/: this is called yeísmo.

  7. Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices ( Spanish: Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios; AEMPS) is a regulatory and autonomous agency of the Government of Spain that acts as the highest sanitary authority in the country in terms of medical safety on medicines, health products, cosmetics and personal care products ...

  8. Mejía (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Mejía is a Spanish surname dating back to the early 1500s. Its origin comes from Spanish Jews forced to convert to Catholicism also known as Marranos or Sephardic Jews. In Spain, the surname is predominantly found in Galicia and Toledo. It is also common in several Latin American countries, particularly Mexico, Honduras, and Colombia .

  9. Martínez (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Martínez (often spelled without the acute accent on the "I") is a common surname in the Spanish language. Martínez is the most common surname in the Spanish regions of Navarre, La Rioja, Cuenca and Murcia. There are also variations such as San Martin and Martín (with an accent on the "i"). It originated as a patronymic surname, meaning "son ...