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Map of territories that were once part of the Spanish Empire. The Spanish Empire was one of the first global empires. It was also one of the largest empires in world history. In the 16th century, Spain and Portugal were in the vanguard of European global exploration and colonial expansion.
This project makes few concessions to history, and is governed by criteria of population, extension and geographical coherence. There is a desire to go beyond historical names, preferring those of the capital cities. Nor are the traditional boundaries of the provinces respected, creating a new map.
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ISO 3166 code. ES. Internet TLD. .es [f] Spain, [g] or the Kingdom of Spain, [h] [i] is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa. [11] [j] It is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union member state. Spanning across the ...
570 BCE - 2024. History of Spain. The history of Spain dates to the Antiquity when the pre-Roman peoples of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula made contact with the Greeks and Phoenicians and the first writing systems known as Paleohispanic scripts were developed.
This is a timeline of Spanish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Spain and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Spain .
Map of the 1822 territorial division of Spain. The colored regions here properly date from 1833, not 1822. They are used here just to enable easy comparison of the maps. Map of the similar 1833 territorial division of Spain; this division into provinces remains in effect with only minor modifications as of 2009; the colored regions were ...
Category: Maps of the history of Spain by century. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository ... Maps of 16th-century Spain (1 F) Maps of 16th-century ...
