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Historiography of Spain generally treats this as the formation of the Kingdom of Spain, but officially speaking, the two kingdoms continued with their own separate institutions for more than two centuries. It was not until the Nueva Planta decrees of 1707–1716 that the two lands were formally merged into a single state.
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (1549 – 28 March 1626 [1] or 27 March 1625 [2]) was a chronicler, historian, and writer of the Spanish Golden Age, author of Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del mar Océano que llaman Indias Occidentales ("General History of the Deeds of the Castilians on the Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea Known As the West ...
The current Spanish constitution refers to the monarchy as "The Crown" and the constitutional title of the monarch is simply rey/reina de España: [1] that is, "king/queen of Spain". However, the constitution allows for the use of other historic titles pertaining to the Spanish monarchy, [ 1 ] without specifying them.
Mexico's president-elect says Spain's king is not invited to her inauguration because the crown never answered an apology demand over its colonial legacy.
Dynastic line from the first Visigothic kings to Felipe VI. The monarchy in Spain has its roots in the Visigothic Kingdom and its Christian successor states of Navarre, Asturias (later Leon and Castile) and Aragon, which fought the Reconquista or Reconquest of the Iberian peninsula following the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in the 8th century.
The Four Kingdoms of Andalusia. The Four Kingdoms of Andalusia ( Spanish : cuatro reinos de Andalucía or, in 18th-century orthography , quatro reynos del Andaluzia ) was a collective name designating the four kingdoms of the Crown of Castile located in the southern Iberian Peninsula , south of the Sierra Morena .
The Prologus Galaetus or Galeatum principium (lit. and traditionally translated as "helmeted prologue"; [1] or sometimes translated as "helmeted preface" [2] [3]) is a preface by Jerome, dated 391–392, to his translation of the Liber Regum (the book of Kings composed of four parts: the first and second books of Samuel the first and second ...
His book is the longest sustained critique of Spanish colonial rule produced by an Indigenous subject in the entire colonial period. Written between 1600 and 1615 and addressed to King Philip III of Spain , [ 3 ] the corónica [ a ] outlines the injustices of colonial rule and argues that the Spanish were foreign settlers in Peru.