- AMERICA, SPANISH
- the islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico, till lately belonging to Spain, though the designation is often applied to all the countries in N. America where Spanish is the spoken language.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
AMERICA, SPANISH
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