Brief Life History of Berta
When Berta Valencia Arboleda was born in 1904, in Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia, her father, Esteban Valencia Buritica, was 34 and her mother, Marciana Arboleda Gutiérrez, was 24. She died in 2003, in Colombia, at the age of 99.
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World Events (4)
1922
The United States pay Colombia $25 million for the loss of Panama.
1939
World War II. Colombia helps the United States to keep the Panama Canal open.
1989
The United States aid Colombia against drug dealers. They supply the Colombian government with military equipment and advisory.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Luis, Carlos, Jesus, Manuel, Miguel, Armando, Francisco, Rafael, Jorge, Jaime.
Spanish; Catalan (València): habitational name from any of various places called Valencia (in Catalan: València), principally the major city in eastern Spain, which was formerly the capital of an independent Moorish kingdom of the same name, until it was reconquered in 1239 by James I, king of the Catalan dynasty, and became part of the Crown of Aragon together with the Principality of Catalonia and the Kingdom of Aragon. This city but also the other places were apparently named from an honorary title derived from Latin valens ‘brave’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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