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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ns claim he could have been born in other places, from the [[Aragonese_Empire|Crown of Aragó]] to the...
5: ...is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the ...
29: ... Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off the [[Cape of St. Vincent]],...
31: ...and]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a ...
33: ... to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the Po... - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
2: ...les Cardinal Mazarin|Cardinal Mazarin]] served as France's [[Religious minister|chief minister]].
4: She was born in [[Valladolid]], [[Spain]], as the daughter of [[Hapsburg]] par...
6: ...r four-year-old son was crowned King Louis XIV of France. Anne assumed the regency but entrusted the g...
12: Queen Anne's memoirs were published in 1662 by [[Fran篩s de la Rochefoucauld]]. Many view her as a b... - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...once de León was born in Santervás de Campos ([[Valladolid]]). As a young man he joined the war to conquer [...
7: ...d won his rights. Ponce de León was then removed from office in 1512 and felt his good name had been ...
11: ...was made in [[New York]] in 1882 using the bronze from English Cannons seized after the English attack... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...e cities of [[Ceuta]] and [[Melilla]] in [[north Africa]], and a number of uninhabited islands on the ...
58: ...in the sense that they are not known to have come from elsewhere), consisting of a number of separate ...
70: ...s present languages, religion, and laws originate from this Roman period.
73: ...frica. Much of Spain's distinctive art originates from this seven-hundred-year period, and many Arabic...
81: ...but the uncontrolled influx of goods and minerals from [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|Spanish ... - Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
3: ...isition was the result of the reconquest of Spain from the [[Muslim]]s and the policy of converting Sp...
6: ...] and [[Valencia]], there was a local inquisition from the [[Middle Ages]], as in the rest of the Euro...
8: ...rule. The large cities, especially [[Seville]], [[Valladolid]], capital of Castile, and [[Barcelona]], capital...
22: ...on]], who threatened to withhold military support from his kingdom of [[Sicily]]. Sixtus issued the [[...
26: ...possession of [[Greece]] and the Greek islands. [[France]], as always, was looking for signs of weakne... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...ho sailed for [[Spain]]. He was the first to sail from [[Europe]] westwards to [[Asia]], the first [[E...
7: ... had gone two years before. Here, with his cousin Francisco Serrano, Magellan continued his education,...
9: ... In [[1505]] he was sent to [[India]] to install Francisco de Almeida as a Portuguese [[viceroy]] the...
15: ...ices to the court of [[Spain]], changing his name from "''Fern㯠de Magalh㥳''" to "''Fernando de Mag...
18: ...[October 20]], [[1517]], and from there went to [[Valladolid]] to see the teenaged king, [[Charles V, Holy Rom... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
7: ...to the [[empire]] of the Mexicas as distinguished from the Mexicas alone. This article deals with the ...
9: ...e of the Mexicas, Azteca means "someone who comes from [[Aztlán]]", a place commonly believed to be l...
13: ...ating the moment when '''Aztecs''' found the omen from the god [[Huitzilopochtli]] signaling the locat...
14: ...h century, as a way to distance "modern" Mexicans from pre-conquest Mexicans. This usage has been the...
19: ...s derived from ''mexictli'', "navel of the moon", from Nahuatl ''metztli'' (moon) and ''xictli'' (nave... - Madrid (20882 bytes)
14: ...he first historical data we have from the city is from the middle of the IX Century, when [[Mohamed I]...
18: ...II of Spain|Felipe III]] installed his court in [[Valladolid]], Madrid's fortunes have closely mirrored those...
20: ...have a lasting impact on French rule in Spain and France's image in Europe in general.
24: ...rero Blanco would continue the dictatorship after Franco's death--contribute to lead the country towar...
26: ...se of left-wing and republican ideology) accepted Franco's wishes of being succeedled by [[Juan Carlos...
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