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In 1958, Spain ceded Tarfaya to Mohammed V and joined the previously separate districts of Saguia el-Hamra (in the north) and Río de Oro (in the south) to form the province of Spanish Sahara. Map of Spain in 1960. Present-day Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara, as well as the Ifni territory , were still part of Spain.
Articles on the modern history of Spain: Early Modern history of Spain. Habsburg Spain (16th to 17th centuries) 17th-century Spain; Bourbon Spain (18th century) 19th-century Spain. History of Spain (1814–73) Restoration (Spain) (1874–1931) 20th-century Spain. Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939) Francoist Spain (1936–1975) History of ...
Map of 1720 showing the interior kingdoms of peninsular Spain during the Ancient Regime. Map of 1841, made by J. Archer, showing for Spain the territorial division of Floridablanca of 1785. [2] Philip V created, taking as a base the pre-existing provinces created by the Austrias, the institution of the intendancies. Although it is true that ...
The concept of a Greater Croatian state has its modern origins with the Illyrian movement, a pan-South-Slavist cultural and political campaign with roots in the early modern period, and revived by a group of young Croatian intellectuals during the first half of the 19th century.
The economic measures of Laureano Figuerola (free trade tariff, banking reorganization —the germ of what would become the Bank of Spain—, and monetary —creation of the peseta, 1869—) restored international confidence. Spanish stocks rose in Paris, foreign capital was attracted again and the railroads experienced a new impulse.
European imperialism in particular, contributed to the field of geography. [2] As European powers sought to expand outwards and overseas, they required the knowledge to do so effectively. [ 3 ] Thus, European expansionists relied on geographic knowledge for everything from cartography to the planning of human settlements . [ 1 ]
Évolués in the Belgian Congo studying medicine.. Western European colonialism and colonization was the Western European policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over other societies and territories, founding a colony, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
Historically, Spanish nationalism specifically emerged with liberalism, during the Peninsular War against occupation by the Napoleonic France. [14] As put by José Álvarez Junco, insofar we speak of nationalism in Spain since 1808, the Spanish nationalist enterprise was a work of liberals, who turned their victory "to a feverish identity of patriotism and the defense of liberty".