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4 days ago · The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery.
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2 days ago · The history of Spain dates to contact between the pre-Roman peoples of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula made with the Greeks and Phoenicians. During Classical Antiquity, the peninsula was the site of multiple successive colonizations of Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans.
5 days ago · The 146 acres (59 hectares) within the original 20-foot- (6-metre-) thick walls contain Manila Cathedral, Fort Santiago, San Agustin Church, the University of the City of Manila, and other monuments to the Spanish colonial period.
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May 1, 2024 · Manila, Metro Manila, Philippi. The Manila galleons were Spanish trading ships which for two and a half centuries linked the Spanish Crown’s Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, with her Asian territories, collectively known as the Spanish East Indies, across the Pacific Ocean.
Apr 25, 2024 · The Florentine Codex. Annotation. This is an excerpt from the twelfth book of the Historia general de las Cosas de Nueva España ( General History of the Things of New Spain ), an encyclopedic work about the people and culture of central Mexico compiled by Fray Bernardino Sahagún (1499-1590).
1 day ago · Spain's population surpassed 48 million inhabitants for the first time in history. In 2024 the population peaked, there are 48,592,909 [3] people living in Spain.
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Apr 23, 2024 · The chain of missions established along the San Antonio River in the 18th century is a reminder of one of Spain's most successful attempts to extend its dominion northward from New Spain (present-day Mexico). Collectively they form the largest concentration of Catholic missions in North America.
