See also:

• COBAN, or SANTO DOMINGO DE COBAN

COBAN, or SANTO DOMINGO DE COBAN  , the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of Alta See also:

• VERA, AUGUSTO (1813-1885)

Vera Paz in central See also:

• GUATEMALA (sometimes incorrectly written GUATIMALA)
• GUATEMALA, or GUATEMALA LA NUEVA (i.e. " New Guatemala," sometimes written Nueva Guatemala, and formerly Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala)

Guatemala; about 90 M . N. of the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Guatemala, on the Cojab6n, a See also:

• LEFT

left-See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand tributary of the Polochic . Pop . (1905) about 31,000 . The See also:

• TOWN

town is built in a mountainous and fertile See also:

• DISTRICT

district, and consists chiefly of See also:

• ADOBE (pronounced a-db-be; also corrupted to dobie; from the Span. adobar, to plaster, traceable through Arabic to an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning " brick ")

adobe See also:

• INDIAN

Indian cottages, surrounded by gardens of flowering shrubs . More See also:

• MODERN

modern houses have been erected for the See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign residents, among whom the Germans are numerically pre-dominant . In the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief square of the town stands a 16th-See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century Dominican See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, externally See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain, but covered internally with curious Indian decorations . The municipal offices, formerly a See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college for priests, are remarkable for their handsome burs disproportionately large gateway in See also:

• RENAISSANCE, THE

Renaissance See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style . Despite the want of a railway, Cohan has a flourishing See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade in See also:

• COFFEE (Fr: cafe, Ger. Kaffee)

coffee and See also:

• CINCHONA

cinchona; See also:

• COCOA

cocoa, See also:

• VANILLA

vanilla and See also:

• SUGAR

sugar-See also:

• CANE

cane are also cultivated, and there are manufactures of See also:

• RUM
• RUM (according to Skeat, a corruption of Malay brum or bram; the adjective " rum," i.e. " queer," being a distinct word, in Gipsy rem)

rum, See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton fabrics, See also:

• SOAP

soap and cigars . The prosperity of the town is largely due to the See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry of the Quecchi, Kacchi or Kakchi See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians who See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form the See also:

• MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority of the inhabitants . Cohan was founded in the 16th century by Dominican monks under Fray Pedro de Angulo, whose portrait is preserved in the church . In See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles V .

(1500-1558), Cohan received the name of See also:

• CIUDAD

Ciudad Imperial (which soon became-obsolete), together with a coat of arms and other privileges belonging to a See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish city of the first class .