"What was known as the place of ""bearded ones"" to early Portuguese and/or Spanish explorers?"
History of Barbados documented Amerindian settlement dates to between about 350 and 650 AD. The arrivals were a group known as the Saladoid-Barrancoid from mainland South America. A second wave of settlers appeared around the year 800 (the Spanish referred to these as "Arawaks") and a third in the mid-13th century (called "Caribs" by the Spanish). This last group was politically more organised and came to rule over the others. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to discover the island. Portuguese navigator Pedro a Campos named it "Los Barbados" (meaning "bearded ones"). Frequent slave-raiding missions by the Spanish Empire in the early 16th
Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Iberia and Ibero-America, including some recent returnees to Judaism in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The use of Spanish and Portuguese languages by Western Sephardim persists in parts of the synagogue service. Otherwise, the use of Spanish and Portuguese quickly diminished amongst the Spanish and Portuguese Jews after the 17th century, when they were adapting to new societies. In practice, from the mid-19th century on, the Spanish and Portuguese Jews gradually replaced their traditional languages with the local ones of their places of residence for their everyday use. Local languages used by "Spanish and Portuguese Jews" include