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Santa Elena, the Spanish-language name of Saint Helen, is often used as a toponym in parts of the world where that tongue is or was spoken: This article is about the international language known as Spanish or Castilian. ... Helena on a coin. ... In geography and cartography, a toponym is a place name, a geographical name, a proper name of locality, region, or some other part of Earths surface or its natural or artificial feature. ...

See also: Santa Helena, the Portuguese form of the name. view of part of San Ignacio Cayo San Ignacio Cayo is a town in the west of the nation of Belize; it is capital of Belizes Cayo District. ... Flores is the capital city of El Petén department of Guatemala. ... Santa Elena is a city located in western Guayas, Ecuador. ... Parris Island is a census-designated place located in Beaufort County, South Carolina. ...

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Santa Elena is a town of 15,000 people in Entre Rios Province, 729 kilometers upstream from Buenos Aires on the Parana River.
Santa Elena has a nine-hole golf course and offers excellent dorado fishing on the mighty Parana River (Argentina's counterpart to the Mississippi), which at this point is about a mile wide.
Santa Elena residents would be glad to consider a sister cities relationship with any California city to which they are linked by the yearly migration of the swallows.
SANTA ELENA, DISCOVERER OF THE HOLY CROSS AND MOTHER OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EMPEROR OF ANTIQUITY. By Judy King - ON ... (2791 words)
Elena's story is that of a strong, resilient "today's woman", for she was in her 80's when she made her pilgrimage to Jerusalem to supervise the building of the first temples there.
Santa Elena was born Flavia Julia Helena in Drepanum in an Eastern province of the Roman empire (modern Bosnia and Serbia) near the middle of the second century after the death of Jesus Christ.
Elena may have been making the trip to restore the faith of the people in her son following a series of unfortunate and undocumented events, which led him in 326 A.D. to order the execution of his wife Fausta and his oldest son Crispus, the son of Minervina.
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