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Marianao

American  
[mah-ree-ah-nah-aw] / ˌmɑ ri ɑˈnɑ ɔ /

noun

  1. a city in NW Cuba, a suburb of Havana.


Marianao British  
/ marjaˈnao /

noun

  1. a city in NW Cuba, adjacent to W Havana city: the chief Cuban military base. Pop: 133 016 (1989)

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The Rev. Ricardo Pereira, the bishop at the Methodist Church of Marianao in Havana, said his church has gone from fewer than 400 members in the late 1990s to more than 3,200 today.

From Washington Post Jun. 1, 2015

I wandered into a showdown between two neighborhood teams of 11- and 12-year-olds, Marianao versus Guanabacoa.

From New York Times Dec. 21, 2014

“This has nothing to do with the pope,” said the Rev. Jorge Ortega, pastor of the Methodist Charismatic Church in the Marianao neighborhood.

From New York Times Mar. 26, 2012

The Tropicana merits the short drive from Old Havana to the Marianao district, the price of admission--$40 to $60--and the cheesy photo you will end up buying.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Secretary of War visited Cuba, and with Major-Generals Brooke, Ludlow, Wilson, and other officers, reviewed what troops remained of the Seventh Corps, with others, near Marianao, March 29, 1899.

From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Keifer, Joseph Warren

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