Where does the last name Ceja originated? Was it in Mexico or Spain?
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http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/print.cgi?ceja::28.html
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lugar that means place in spanish
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Locations, for one thing. Mexico is at the bottom of North America whereas Spain is tagged along with Portugal and France.\n\nAlso, the Spaniards (although I don't know if this applies to this modern day) were considered Europeans – along with the English, the Dutch, the French, etc. What's more, and I’m pretty sure this does not really relate to the question, Mexicans are Catholics primarily because of the Spanish’s doing.
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Some suggest that the word California may signify that a place is "hot as an oven" (cali > hot, fornia > oven). It may be derived from caliente fornalia, Spanish for hot furnace, or it may come from calida fornax, Latin for hot climate.\n\nAnother possible source may be kali forno, an indigenous phrase meaning "high mountains". There is no agreement among scholars.\n\nThe name California comes from a mythical Spanish island ruled by a queen called Califia that was featured in a Spanish romance ("Las Sergas de Esplandian") written by Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo in 1510. The Spanish explorers originally thought that California was an island.
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Of Spanish origin. From the name EVE which means Life
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Yep. They had a significant presence in Spain for over 700 years, and ruled most of the Iberian peninsula for most of that time. A lot of Spanish culture comes from that period of Muslim rule, for example flamenco music. The beginning of the Spanish Empire, which was the first empire on which the sun never set, began with the Reconquista, the expulsion of the Muslim presence by Catholic forces. It finished in 1492 and was presided over by Ferdinand and Isabella, the rulers who sponsored Christopher Columbus' voyage to the New World. I've included a link to a handy timeline.
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Don't be silly silly person.  Mexico never owned it to began with. Just how dam old do you think mexico is. the entire place was a spainish colony(rememeber your language ? spainish? or do you think the gods spoke spainish when they made you?
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Check your history moron all this belonged to Spain and Mexico at one time so Spanish was spoken here long before you were a wet spot.
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Most people who are named Jesus today come from spanish speaking countries or backgrounds.  In spanish, Jesus is pronounced hey-seus.  English speakers rarely name their children Jesus.
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It means: "hijo de Ramiro." Usually the last names in Spanish that end in "ez" mean: "hijo de." Examples:\nGonzález, hijo de Gonzalo. Rodríguez, hijo de Rodrigo, Fernández, hijo de Fernando, etc, etc
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1518?, Spanish explorer in Mexico. Sailing from Cuba on a slave hunt, he discovered Yucatán in 1517. He died from wounds received in a battle with the Maya. His explorations were furthered by Juan de Grijalva.\n\nd. 1526?, Spanish conquistador. Sent in 1523 by Pedro Arias de Ávila to deprive Gil González de Ávila (d. 1543) of his claims to Nicaragua, Fernández de Córdoba founded León and Granada (Nicaragua). In an attempt to seize Nicaragua for himself, he was surprised by his commander and put to death. The Nicaraguan unit of currency (córdoba) is named after him.\n\nFrancisco Fernández (Hernandez) de Córdoba (? - 1524) was a Spanish explorer and slave trader who explored Mexico (1517) and Nicaragua (1524). \nIn February 1517, Cordoba sailed from Cuba to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico with 3 ships and 110 soldiers; he was the first European to travel to this area, and the first to see the Mayan people. Cordoba had been sent to Mexico by Diego Velazquez, the governor of Cuba, to look for treasures to plunder. First Juan de Grijalva and then Hernan Cortes continued the Spanish exploration/conquest of Mexico. \n\nIn 1524, the Governor of Darien (now part of Panama), Pedro Arias de Ávila (also called Pedrarias Dávila), sent Hernandez de Cordoba to Nicaragua (Francisco de Soto accompanied him on this trip) to claim the land (and usurp the land claims of Gil González de Ávila ). On this trip, Cordoba founded the first permanent Spanish settlements in the area, including Granada (on Lake Nicaragua) and Leon (east of Lake Managua). After trying to claim Nicaragua for himself, Cordoba was killed by Pedro Arias de Ávila.
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It was under spanish domination (not mexican) for 3 centuries, until 1898. Therefore the spanish names and surnames.
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No, he´s from Spain. He was born in Malaga.
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It seems to be a Spanish surname. Probably central America.
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I would say Hispanic anything relating to Spain\nand Latin referring to all countries in Central and South America, which of course, also had their start with Spain to some degree.
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The Aztecs were a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people of central México in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries.\n\nThey called themselves Mexicas. The Republic of Mexico and its capital, Mexico City, derive their names from the word "Mexica". The capital of the Aztec empire was Tenochtitlan, built on raised islets in Lake Texcoco. Part of the capital of Mexico, Mexico City, is built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan.\n\nThe Aztec civilization had a vibrant culture which included mandatory education and a rich mythology. For Europeans, the most striking element of the Aztec culture was the practice of human sacrifice which was practiced throughout Mesoamerica prior to the Spanish conquest.\n\nIn what is probably the most widely known episode in the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztecs in 1521 thus immortalizing himself and the Aztec Huey Tlatoani, Moctezuma II (Montezuma II).\n\nAlthough some contemporary Nahuatl speakers identify themselves as Aztecs, the word is normally only used as a historical term referring to the empire of the Mexicas, as distinguished from the Mexicas alone. This article deals with the historical Aztec civilization, not with modern-day Nahuatl speakers.
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The Mexican Cession is a historical name for the region of the present day southwestern United States that was ceded to the U.S. by Mexico in 1848 under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo following the Mexican-American War. The cession of this territory from Mexico was a condition for the end of the war. For the 38 years between 1810, when Mexico declared its independence from Spain, and 1848, the region had formed approximately one-third of the territory of Mexico; prior to that, it had been a part – albeit a remote one, largely without European settlement – of the Spanish colony of New Spain for some three centuries.