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  2. Treaty of Tordesillas - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of Tordesillas, [a] signed in Tordesillas, Spain, on 7 June 1494, and ratified in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 600 kilometres (370 mi) west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.

  3. Ea quae pro bono pacis - Wikipedia

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    Ea quae pro bono pacis (For the promotion of peace) was a bull issued by Pope Julius II on 24 January 1506 by which the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the world unknown to Europeans between Portugal and Spain, but lacked papal approval as it countered previous bulls by Pope Alexander VI, was approved and ratified by the Catholic Church.

  4. List of territorial claims and designations in Colorado

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    The Treaty of Tordesillas is signed on June 7, 1494. [58] This treaty signed by the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire established a new demarcation meridian farther west than the meridian established by the papal bull Inter Caetera. This gave Portugal a much greater portion of Brazil but kept the rest of the Americas under Spanish purview.

  5. Lines of amity - Wikipedia

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    When it was drawn, there was disagreement among major European powers over where the line of longitude lay. The line of demarcation drawn by the papal state in 1493 is 100 leagues west of the Azores, whereas the line determined by the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas trends further west. [6] The Treaty aimed to divide territory among Portugal and Spain.

  6. Spanish Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of Tordesillas was confirmed by Pope Julius II in the bull Ea quae pro bono pacis on 24 January 1506. [43] The Treaty of Tordesillas [44] and the treaty of Cintra (18 September 1509) [45] established the limits of the Kingdom of Fez for Portugal, and the Castilian expansion was allowed outside these limits, beginning with the ...

  7. Casas del Tratado de Tordesillas - Wikipedia

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    Casas del Tratado de Tordesillas. Casas del Tratado de Tordesillas (Houses of Treaty of Tordesillas in English) are two united palaces in Tordesillas, Spain.The negotiations that gave rise to the Treaty of Tordesillas took place there, through which Spain and Portugal shared the New World, giving rise to Ibero-America.

  8. History of Portugal (1415–1578) - Wikipedia

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    This was accomplished by the Treaty of Tordesillas (June 7, 1494), which modified the delimitation authorized by Pope Alexander VI in two bulls issued on May 4, 1493. The treaty gave to Portugal all lands that might be discovered east of a straight line drawn from the Arctic Pole to the Antarctic, at a distance of 370 leagues west of Cape Verde ...

  9. Portuguese colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 divided the Earth outside Europe into Castilian and Portuguese global territorial hemispheres for exclusive conquest and colonization. Portugal colonized parts of South America ( Brazil , Colónia do Sacramento, Uruguay , Guanare, Venezuela ), but also made some unsuccessful attempts to colonize North America ...