El Galeon Andalucia
by Marcia Lee Jones
Title
El Galeon Andalucia
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Marcia Lee Jones
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Photograph - Photography
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The term Galleon large ship, comes from Old French Galion "little ship" (13c.), from Spanish Gale�n "armed merchant ship", from Portuguese Gale�o "war ship", from Byzantine Greek Galea "galley" + augmentative suffix -on.[2] Another possible origin is the Old French word galie meaning "galley".[3] The term was originally given to certain types of war galleys in the Middle Ages. The Annali Genovesi mentions galleons of 80, 64 and 60 oars, used for battle and on missions of exploration, in the 12th and 13th centuries. It is very likely that the galleons and galliots mentioned in the accounts of the crusades were the same vessels. Later, when the term started to be applied to sail only vessels, it meant, like the English term "man of war", a warship that was otherwise no different from the other sailing ships of the time
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