Look up: cabildo


  1. cabildo
    (Spanish: `municipal council`), the fundamental unit of local government in colonial Spanish America. Conforming to a tradition going back to the ... [2 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/1

  2. Cabildo
    [opera] Cabildo is the only opera by the American composer Amy Beach, her opus 149. This chamber opera is in one act and has a libretto by Nan Bagby Stephens. Beach composed the music in 1932 and made use of folksong and Creole tunes. However, the work was not performed in her lifetime and r...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabildo_(opera)

  3. Cabildo
    [council] For a discussion of the contemporary Spanish and Latin American cabildo, see Ayuntamiento. A cabildo (kaˈβildo) or ayuntamiento (lang) was a former Spanish, colonial administrative council that governed a municipality. Cabildos were sometimes appointed, sometimes elected, but wer...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabildo_(council)

  4. Cabildo
    [magazine] Cabildo is an Argentine magazine which is considered the main press organ of nationalist Catholicism in the country. First published in the 1970s and then inactive during most of the 1990s, the magazine has become notorious for its xenophobic and anti-Semitic editorial line. The f...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabildo_(magazine)

  5. Cabildo
    [Cuba] Cabildos de nación were African ethnic associations created in Cuba in the late 16th century based on the Spanish cofradías (guilds or fraternities) that were organized in Seville for the first time around the 14th century. The Sevillian cofradías had the tutelage of a Catholic sai...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabildo_(Cuba)

  6. cabildo
    cabildo (käbēl'dō) , autonomous municipal council, the lowest administrative unit in the Spanish government. The institution was especially influential in Spanish America, where it was set up in the early 16th cent. in imitation of the Castilian ayuntamiento, the name it was at ...
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0809722.html

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