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means "Green
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It may refer to:
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
, Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
and Romanian
Romanian language
Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...
means "Green
Green
Green is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nanometres. In the subtractive color system, it is not a primary color, but is created out of a mixture of yellow and blue, or yellow and cyan; it is considered...
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It may refer to:
Places
- Aguas VerdesAguas VerdesAguas Verdes , is a town in the Zarumilla Province of the Tumbes Region in northwestern Peru. It has a population of 2,390 and is capital of the Aguas Verdes District....
, Peru - Verde BeachVerde BeachVerde Beach is a small maritime beach of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. It is located near the northern tip of Banhos Avenue. The beach is popular in the summer, but calm during winter. The beach has white sand and several rocks. It is known due to a rocky formation with ruins....
, Portugal - Camp Verde, ArizonaCamp Verde, ArizonaCamp Verde is a town in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the town is 10,610....
, USA - Campina VerdeCampina VerdeCampina Verde is a municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As of 2007 the population was 18,680 in a total area of 3,663 km². It became a municipality in 1938.-Location:...
, Brazil - Cape VerdeCape VerdeThe Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...
- Castro Verde, Portugal
- Fort Verde State Historic ParkFort Verde State Historic ParkFort Verde State Historic Park in the town of Camp Verde, Arizona is a small park that attempts to preserve parts of the Apache Wars-era fort as it appeared in the 1880s...
, in Camp Verde - Verde IslandVerde IslandThis article refers to an island, for the body of water see Verde Island Passage.Verde Island is situated along the bodies of Verde Island Passage between the islands of Luzon and Mindoro, Philippines. It was on 1988 when a small village was created through the effort of an European project using...
, Philippines - Verde RiverVerde RiverThe Verde River is the north and northwestern watershed of the Salt River–Verde River Watershed that co-join and enter the Gila River at Phoenix, Arizona, located in the U.S. state of Arizona...
, Arizona - Palos VerdesPalos VerdesPalos Verdes is a name often used to refer to a group of coastal cities in the Palos Verdes Hills on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, within southwestern Los Angeles County in the U.S...
, California - Mato VerdeMato VerdeMato Verde is a city and municipality located in the north of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. It was founded in 1953. The population was 12,664 as of 2007 and the area was 664 km². The elevation of the city is 541 metres. The postal code is 39527-000.Mato Verde is part of the...
, Brazil - Mesa Verde National ParkMesa Verde National ParkMesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. It was created in 1906 to protect some of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in the world...
, Colorado, USA - Monte VerdeMonte VerdeMonte Verde is an archaeological site in southern Chile, located in the northern Patagonia near Puerto Montt, Chile, which has been dated to 14,800 years BP . This dating adds to the evidence showing that settlement in the Americas pre-dates the Clovis culture by roughly 1000 years...
, archeological site in Chile - Ponta VerdePonta VerdePonta Verde is also a village in the island of Brava, Cape Verde, see Ponta Verde, Cape VerdePonta Verde is a beach in Maceió, capital city of Alagoas, state of Brazil....
, a beach in Brazil - Rancho Palos Verdes, CaliforniaRancho Palos Verdes, CaliforniaRancho Palos Verdes is a city in Los Angeles County, California that was incorporated on September 7, 1973. The population was 41,643 at the 2010 census...
- Río VerdeRío VerdeRioverde is a city and its surrounding municipality located in the south-central part of the state of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. It is the fifth-largest city in the state, behind San Luis Potosí, Soledad de Graciano Sánchez, Ciudad Valles, and Matehuala...
- Val VerdeVal VerdeVal Verde may mean:*Val Verde, California*Val Verde, Texas*Val Verde Park, Texas*Val Verde County, Texas*Valverde, New Mexico in the New Mexico Territory*Battle of Valverde or Val Verde, an American Civil War battle...
- Verde ValleyVerde ValleyThe Verde Valley is a valley in central Arizona in the United States of America. The Verde River runs through it. It is overlooked by Mingus Mountain and the Mogollon Rim.- History :The first notice of this region appears in the report of one Espejo,...
, Arizona, USA
People
- Alessandro VerdeAlessandro VerdeAlessandro Verde was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal and former Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore....
, Roman Catholic Cardinal - Cuerno VerdeCuerno VerdeCuerno Verde was a leader of the Comanche in the late 18th century.-Life:Cuerno Verde, which translates to "Green Horn" in English, is the Spanish name given to Tabivo Naritgant because of the green tinted horns that he wore on his head-dress in battle. The English translation of the original...
, Comanche leader - Gelsomina VerdeGelsomina VerdeGelsomina Verde was an innocent victim of the Camorra who was tortured and subsequently murdered during the Scampia feud in the city of Naples on November 21, 2004. She was 22 years old....
, Neapolitan victim of the Camorra
Other
- Cobra VerdeCobra VerdeCobra Verde is a 1987 German drama film based upon Bruce Chatwin's 1980 novel, The Viceroy of Ouidah. The film depicts the life of a fictional slave trader named Francisco Manoel da Silva who is played by the prolific German actor Klaus Kinski...
, a German film - Hankook VerdesHankook VerdesHankook Verdes are a Belize association football club which competes in the Belize Premier Football League. They are based in Benque Viejo del Carmen, a town situated on the border of Guatemala. The club was established in 1976 as Real Verdes Football Club and changed their name to Hankook Verdes...
, a Belize Premier Football LeagueBelize Premier Football LeagueThe Belize Premier Football League is the premier division of football in Belize sanctioned by the Football Federation of Belize...
team - Olhos Verdes, album
- Palos Verdes High SchoolPalos Verdes High SchoolPalos Verdes High School is one of three public high schools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California, USA...
- Plaxton VerdePlaxton VerdeThe Plaxton Verde was a single-decker bus body built by Plaxton between 1991 and 1997. It was built on rear-engined chassis, the most popular of which was the Dennis Lance which accounted for over half of the Verdes built. The rest were on Volvo B10B, DAF SB220 and Scania N113 chassis.The Verde has...
, single-decker bus - Salsa Verde, Italian green sauceGreen SauceGreen sauce is the name of several different sauces containing mainly herbs, namely the Italian salsa verde, the French sauce verte, the Spanish salsa verde and the German Grüne Soße or Frankfurter Grie Soß .- History :...
- Terra VerdeTerra VerdeTerra Verde is a relatively new style of syncopated piano music, which originated in the United States. The term "Terra Verde" was coined in 1995 by modern ragtime composer David Thomas Roberts ....
, a musical style - Verde Canyon Railroad, a heritage railroad in Arizona
- Vinho VerdeVinho VerdeVinho Verde is a Portuguese wine from the Minho region in the far north of the country. The name literally means "Green Wine" , referring to its youthful freshness that leads to a very slight green color on the edges of the wine. The region is characterized by its many small growers, which...
, a type of Portuguese wine - A program by GPUGraphics processing unitA graphics processing unit or GPU is a specialized circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory in such a way so as to accelerate the building of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display...
manufacturer NvidiaNVIDIANvidia is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors . Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Techonologies have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles...
to release driversDevice driverIn computing, a device driver or software driver is a computer program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a hardware device....
for its mobile range of products. - Part of Lloyds Banking GroupLloyds Banking GroupLloyds Banking Group plc is a major British financial institution, formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009. As at February 2010, HM Treasury held a 41% shareholding through UK Financial Investments Limited . The Group headquarters is located at 25 Gresham Street in London, with...
to be sold due to EU competition regulations