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Spanish
Etymology
Literally, “Black Legend”. Coined by Spanish historian and author Julián Juderías in his 1914 book La Leyenda Negra y la Verdad Histórica (“The Black Legend and Historical Truth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /leˌʝenda ˈneɡɾa/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /leˌʃenda ˈneɡɾa/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /leˌʒenda ˈneɡɾa/
- Syllabification: Le‧yen‧da Ne‧gra
Proper noun
Leyenda Negra f
- (historiography) Black Legend (the depiction of Spain as cruel, greedy and fanatical)
1997, Alfredo Alvar Ezquerra, La leyenda negra, AKAL, page 7:La Leyenda Negra forma parte de esa propaganda antiespañola.- The Black Legend constitutes part of this anti-Spanish propaganda.
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