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The Cortes Generales ("General Courts"), usually referred to only as las Cortes, are the national legislative assembly of Spain.
The term Cortes is also used for the subnational parliaments of several of Spain's autonomous communities and various bodies from Spanish history.
In the Spanish-speaking American republics, the word corte is most commonly used to designate courts of law: organs of the judiciary, not of the legislative branch. Thus, several Latin American countries have supreme courts known as the Suprema Corte or Corte Suprema, and the continent's San José-based Inter-American Human Rights CourtThe Inter-American Court of Human Rights is an autonomous judicial institution based in the city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Together with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, it makes up the human rights protection system of the Organization of Am is the Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. Additionally, the official name of the International Criminal CourtThe International Criminal Court (ICC) was established in 2002 as a permanent tribunal to prosecute and try individuals for the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, as defined by several international agreements. Note that Internati is Corte Penal Internacional for all varieties of Spanish.
In Spain itself, the word for a legal court tends to be tribunal or juzgado.
For the 16th century Spanish conquistador, see Hernán CortésHernan Cortes ( 1485 December 2, 1547) (who was known as Hernando or Fernando Cortes during his lifetime and signed all his letters Fernan Cortes was the conquistador who conquered Mexico for Spain. Early Life Cortes was born in Medellin, Extremadura prov.
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