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Tierra Firma
Tierra Firma (also Tierra Firme, Spanish from the Latin terra firma, "dry land") served in Spanish colonial times as the name of the Isthmus of Panama, which was a province of New Granada.
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- Tierra Firma item Nuevo Reyno de Granada atque Popayan, map showing this usage (and giving both spellings). The map is from L'Histoire du Nouveau Monde ou description des Indes Occidentales, contenant dix-huict livres... enrichi de nouvelles tables geographiqiues & figures des animaux, plantes & fruicts by Joannes de Laet (1593-1649), published 1640 by Bonaventure & Abraham Elseviers, Leiden.
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10-26-2009 08:16:03
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