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11,000 [20] –20,000 [21] [22] dead. The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, Spanish: Grande y Felicísima Armada, lit. 'Great and Most Fortunate Navy') was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat without previous ...
The (red) and (blue) were the largest and second-largest empires in history, respectively. The precise extent of the Mongol Empire at its greatest territorial expansion is a matter of debate among scholars. Several empires in human history have been contenders for the largest of all time, depending on definition and mode of measurement.
The Second Mexican Empire ( Spanish: Segundo Imperio mexicano; French: Second Empire mexicain ), officially the Mexican Empire ( Spanish: Imperio Mexicano ), was a constitutional monarchy established in Mexico by Mexican monarchists in conjunction with the Second French Empire. The period is sometimes referred to as the Second French ...
Regina Grafe & Maria Alejandra Irigoin Department of Economic History London School of Economics May 2006. This paper was presented at the Seventh GEHN Conference, Istanbul, Turkey (11-12th September, 2005), funded by a Leverhulme Trust Grant: “A Millenium of Material Progress”. For more information about the participants and activities of ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; Help. Films set in the Spanish Empire. Pages in category "Films set in the Spanish Empire" The following 4 pages are in this ...
t. e. Slavery in the Spanish American viceroyalties was an economic and social institution which existed throughout the Spanish Empire including Spain itself. Enslaved Africans were brought over to the continent for their labour, indigenous people were enslaved until the 1543 laws that prohibited it.
Ifni was a Spanish province on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, south of Agadir and across from the Canary Islands. It had a total area of 1,502 km 2 (580 sq mi), and a population of 51,517 in 1964. The main industry was fishing. The present-day Moroccan province in the same area is called Sidi Ifni, with its capital in the city of the same name ...
