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Zapata

[ zuh-pah-tuh; Spanish sah-pah-tah ]

noun

  1. E·mi·lia·no [e-mee-, lyah, -naw], 1877?–1919, Mexican revolutionary and agrarian reformer: guerrilla leader 1911–16.


Zapata

/ zəˈpɑːtə; θaˈpata /

noun

  1. ZapataEmiliano?18771919MMexicanPOLITICS: guerrilla leader Emiliano (emiˈljano). ?1877–1919, Mexican guerrilla leader


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Villa and Zapata looked on, smiling their papier mache smiles, sure they had seen something like this before.

The faces of Villa and Zapata looked on from the opposite end of the square.

On June 11, 1958, many individuals were calling from shallow water in a flooded field at Emiliano Zapata.

Zapata relates what is evidently the exploit which brought to a close the promising career of this enterprising knave.

On the south coast, directly opposite Matanzas, lies a vast swamp known as the Cienega de Zapata.

In the swamp known as the Cienega de Zapata are both alligators and crocodiles, some of them of quite imposing dimensions.

Don Marcos Zapata went to attack them, and killed thirty and captured thirty others.

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zapZapata, Emiliano