HAVANA Definition & Meaning

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Havana

[ huh-van-uh ]

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noun

Spanish �Ჹ·��·�� [ah-, vah, -nah]. a seaport in and the capital of Cuba, on the northwestern coast.
a cigar made in Cuba or of Cuban tobacco.

Havana

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noun

the capital of Cuba, a port in the northwest on the Gulf of Mexico: the largest city in the Caribbean; founded in 1514 as San Cristóbal de la Habana by Diego Velásquez. Pop: 2 192 000 (2005 est) Spanish nameHabana Habanero

Havana

Capital of Cuba and largest city in the country, located in western Cuba; the largest city and chief port of the West Indies and one of the oldest cities in the Americas.

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The sinking of the American battleship Maine in Havana harbor in 1898 led to the Spanish-American War .

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And in June 2024 a Russian submarine was spotted off Scotland's west coast before it arrived in Havana, Cuba, a week later.

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Kaepernick couldn’t have kneeled in Pyongyang or Havana or any number of countries that the right-wing free speech brigade wanted to deport him to – and that’s the point of the flag.

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The film boasts a stunning array of archival footage, from the vaults of the BBC, the U.N. and Belgian and American television networks, along with Cuba’s Havana Archive, but rarer sources as well.

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Obama famously traveled to Havana, the first U.S. president to do so in a century, and attended a baseball game with then-President Raul Castro.

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He is a Cuban American long opposed to the communist government in Havana.

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