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noun - a fortress established in the southwestern United States by the Spanish in order to protect their missions and other holdings
noun - a Spanish fort
PRESIDIO - A presidio (from the Spanish, presidio, meaning "jail" or "fortification") is a fortified base established by the Spanish in areas under their contro...
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| A garrison, especially a fortress of the kind established in the southwest United States by the Spanish to protect their holdings and missions. |
| (in Spain and Spanish America) a fortified military settlement. |
| a fortress established in the southwestern United States by the Spanish in order to protect their missions and other holdings |
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A presidio (from the Spanish, presidio, meaning "jail" or "fortification") is a fortified base established by the Spanish in areas under their control or influence. * The term is derived from the Latin word praesidium meaning protection or defense. * In the Americas, the fortresses were built to protect against pirates and hostile Native Americans, as well as colonists from enemy nations. In the Mediterranean and the Philippines, the presidios were outposts of Christian defense against Islamic raids. The presidios of Spanish-Philippines in particular, were centers where the martial art of Arnis de Mano was developed, combining Filipino, Latin-American and Spanish fighting techniques. Later in western North America, with independence, the Mexicans garrisoned the Spanish presidios on the northern frontier and followed the same pattern in unsettled frontier regions like the Presidio de Sonoma, at Sonoma, California, and the Presidio de Calabasas, in Arizona. * In western North America, a rancho |