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Spanish Empire in 1790. In North America, Spain claimed lands west of the Mississippi River and the Pacific coast from California to Alaska, but it did not control them on the ground. The crown constructed missions and presidios in coastal California and sent maritime expeditions to the Pacific Northwest to assert sovereignty.
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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 13:08, 27 May 2022: 863 × 443 (6.05 MB): RustyRapier: Reverted to version as of 20:39, 28 November 2017 (UTC). Comment of last revision was "Removed coasts explored" but it instead removed distinction between portuguese territory and spanish empire territory, colouring all as spanish territory and removing portuguese mainland (despite the ...
Elisabeth Farnese, queen of Spain and second wife of Philip V of Spain. Philip V proved an effective administrator, centralizing the Spanish authority by eliminating regional cortes (parliaments) and beginning a process of making uniform the laws among the various regions of Spain's empire by eliminating special privileges ().
After the 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, conqueror Hernán Cortés named the territory New Spain, and established the new capital, Mexico City, on the site of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. Central Mexico became the base of expeditions of exploration and conquest, expanding the territory claimed by the Spanish Empire.
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The Spanish Empire's "Islas Filipínas, Marianas y Carolinas" under the Spanish East Indies Captaincy General based in Manila and other formerly planned and former possessions and adjacent islands. 1858, Fragment. 1888 map showing the Spanish East Indies, including Palau Islands (map without Philippines) The Spanish East Indies came to be ...
Flag (1843–1898) Coat of arms ... In terms of governance of the Spanish Empire, ... Map of the West Indies published in 1899.