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3 days ago · (Top) Prehistory. Early history of the Iberian Peninsula. Roman Hispania (2nd century BC – 5th century AD) Gothic Hispania (5th–8th centuries) Islamic al-Andalus and the Christian Reconquest (8th–15th centuries) al-Andalus Reconquest. Early Modern Spain. Spain under the Bourbons, 1715–1808.
1 day ago · Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...
2 days ago · Spanish Empire. The Spanish Empire, [b] sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy [c] or the Catholic Monarchy, [d] [5] [6] [7] was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. [8] [9] In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery.
1 day ago · The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for "reconquest" [a]) or the reconquest of al-Andalus [b] was the successful series of military campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Umayyad Caliphate. [4] The beginning of the Reconquista is traditionally dated to the Battle of Covadonga ( circa 718 or ...
1 day ago · Virgin of Guadalupe and castas, 1. Program of centennial festivities of Mexican independence in September 1910, asserting the historical continuity of Miguel Hidalgo, Benito Juárez "Law," and Porfirio Díaz, "Peace," from 1810 to 1910. The written history of Mexico spans more than three millennia. First populated more than 13,000 years ago, [1 ...
4 days ago · George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English author, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. [2] His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism. [3] [4]
5 days ago · May 30, 2024. Hispanic Paleography And Reading Spanish Genealogy Records. Reading old handwritten Spanish (Mexican) genealogy records; paleography presents several challenges in deciphering genealogy records.
