pre-Conquest
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Eight paintings from the full set are now in Madrid's Museo de América, Europe’s finest collection of Spanish Colonial and pre-Conquest art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2017
Eight paintings from the full set of 16 are in Madrid's Museo de América, the finest collection of Spanish Colonial and pre-Conquest art in Europe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2015
This is by far the biggest, most wonderful city of pre-Conquest America.
From Time Magazine Archive
In addition to those mentioned, only three more pre-Conquest examples of crypts are known, and such crypts as occur in parish churches after the Conquest are exceptional, and are usually due to exigencies of site.
From The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church by A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) Thompson
The fact that Bamburgh is the only pre-Conquest castle in Northumberland disposes of the claim of Alnwick.
From Northumberland Yesterday and To-day by Jean F. (Jean Finlay) Terry
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