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  2. Spanish colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Map of Spanish America c. 1800, showing the 4 viceroyalties (New Spain, pink), (New Granada, green), (Peru, orange), (Río de la Plata, blue) and provincial divisions During the early era and under the Habsburgs, the crown established a regional layer of colonial jurisdiction in the institution of Corregimiento , which was between the Audiencia ...

  3. Spain during World War II - Wikipedia

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    Domestic politics. During World War II, Spain was governed by an autocratic government, [4] but despite Franco's own pro-Axis leanings and debt of gratitude to Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, the government was divided between Germanophiles and Anglophiles. When the war started, Anglophile Juan Luis Beigbeder was minister of foreign affairs.

  4. History of Spain - Wikipedia

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    The history of Spain dates to contact between the pre-Roman peoples of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula made with the Greeks and Phoenicians. During Classical Antiquity, the peninsula was the site of multiple successive colonizations of Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans. Native peoples of the peninsula, such as the Tartessos ...

  5. Spanish Empire - Wikipedia

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    Spanish Empire. For the use of the imperial title in medieval Spain, see Imperator totius Hispaniae. The Spanish Empire, [b] sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy[c] or the Catholic Monarchy, [d][4][5][6] was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. [7][8] In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the ...

  6. Economic history of Spain - Wikipedia

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    With the war devastation and trade isolation, Spain was much more economically backward in the 1940s than it had been a decade earlier. Inflation soared, economic reconstruction faltered, food was scarce, and, in some years, Spain registered negative growth rates.

  7. Military history of Spain - Wikipedia

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    The capture of Rheinfelden (1633). The Spanish empire was one of the most powerful in the world and one of largest in history.. The military history of Spain, from the period of the Carthaginian conquests over the Phoenicians to the former Afghan War spans a period of more than 2200 years, and includes the history of battles fought in the territory of modern Spain, as well as her former and ...

  8. Spanish America - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish Empire (yellow) in 1800. Spanish America refers to the Spanish territories in the Americas during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The term "Spanish America" was specifically used during the territories' imperial era between 15th and 19th centuries. To the end of its imperial rule, Spain called its overseas possessions in ...

  9. Territorial evolution of the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, [62] also known as the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819, settled a border dispute in North America between the United States and Spain. The treaty was the result of increasing tensions between the U.S. and Spain regarding territorial rights at a time of weakened Spanish power in the New World.