When Ortencio Nava was born in 1884, in Isla de Toas, Almirante Padilla, Zulia, Venezuela, his father, Emiliano Nava, was 36 and his mother, Victoria Morán, was 31. He died on 1 October 1944, in his hometown, at the age of 60.
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An international tribunal in Paris ruled on a border dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana (Guyana). Britain received most of the claim for the Essequibo region, close to 111,000 square miles. Venezuela was represented by 2 U.S. judges and the chairman of the panel was Russian jurist Frederic de Martens. Venezuela rejected this decision in the 1960s.
Cipriano Castro served as president of Venezuela.
1899-04-22: National Congress decreed a return to the twenty states of 1864. This change was embodied in the new constitution, which was adopted on 1901-04-13. The 1901 constitution defined the states to be the same as under the 1864 constitution, with the following name changed: Maracaibo to Zulia.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Jesus, Carlos, Luis, Pedro, Manuel, Alfredo, Francisco, Ruben, Javier, Enrique.
Spanish, Catalan, and Asturian-Leonese: habitational name from any of numerous places called Nava, named with nava ‘treeless plateau’, a word of pre-Roman origin, most probably from Basque naba ‘plain next to mountains’ (see Navarra ).
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