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Spanish Town, Jamaica, was founded in 1520 by the Spanish governor Francisco de Garay as Nuestra Villa de la Santísima Señora de la Vega, or Villa de la Vega. It was the capital of Jamaica until the 19th century.

Posted 9th May 2026u/elnovorealista2000

On April 28, 1503, the Battle of Cerignola took place, a military engagement between French and Spanish troops, resulting in a Spanish victory.

Posted 8th May 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Stamps commemorating the 4th Centenary of the Battle of Lepanto, issued on October 7, 1971 by the National Mint and Stamp Factory of Spain Don Juan de Austria.

Posted 8th May 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Escalante Canyons, in Utah, USA. The canyon, riddled with groove formations, is named after Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, a Spanish missionary and the first European explorer of the territory.

Posted 8th May 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Was Francisco Pizarro a Crypto-Jew?

Posted 8th May 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Did the Chinese in the Philippines recognize the Spanish monarchs as their sovereigns, or only the Chinese emperors?

Posted 6th May 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Unknown facts about the founding of Cuenca, the city in the present-day Republic of Ecuador.

Posted 4th May 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Is it true that some Spanish families allied themselves with the descendants of the Incas to increase their power and wealth in the New World?

Posted 3rd May 2026u/elnovorealista2000

What skin color did the Incas have?

Posted 3rd May 2026u/elnovorealista2000

From Village to City? The case of San Francisco de Quito.

Posted 3rd May 2026u/elnovorealista2000

The Jesuits and their secret project to establish a Holy Catholic Inca Empire

Posted 3rd May 2026u/elnovorealista2000

"The Reconquista of the Bay of All Saints," a work by the Spanish painter Juan Bautista Maíno, 1635.

Posted 2nd May 2026u/elnovorealista2000

'Mare Clausum' ("Closed Sea") claims between the Spanish & Portuguese Empires, maintained from the 15th to 18th centuries, though the Portuguese relinquished theirs much sooner. The intention was to establish enormous swathes of the worlds Oceans under exclusive imperial control

Posted 2nd May 2026u/zig_zag-wanderer

Marriage Record of Mulatto Men with Spanish Women

Posted 1st May 2026u/elnovorealista2000

After the conquest of Tenochtitlán, a Hñähñü (Otomi) cacique departed with some families of his people from Xilotepec toward the canyon near the present-day city of Querétaro.

Posted 30th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Map of the Indian villages in New Spain, 1800.

Posted 29th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

The Most Populous Cities under the Iberian Union (1600)

Posted 28th Apr 2026u/amogusdevilman

Criollos and Creoles: the communities of whites born in the New World. (Part 1)

Posted 27th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Criollos and Creoles: the communities of whites born in the New World. (Part 2)

Posted 27th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Plaza de María Pita, A Coruña, 13 de marzo de 1969

Posted 24th Apr 2026u/amogusdevilman

What was coexistence and segregation like between the Spanish, English, and Indians in the New World?

Posted 23rd Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Constitutions of the Archconfraternity of the Resurrection of Rome, 1603.

Posted 20th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

A comparative chart on the population of Hispaniola, the Caribbean island divided between the French colony of Saint-Domingue and the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo at the end of the 18th century.

Posted 19th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

A comparative chart on the population of Hispaniola, a Caribbean island divided between the French colony of Saint-Domingue and the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo at the end of the 18th century.

Posted 19th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Standard-bearer of the tercios during the final years of Philip IV’s reign, 1650–1660. - Art by Justus van Egmont (1602-1674)

Posted 17th Apr 2026u/amogusdevilman

Following the conquest of Peru, the institutions in their treaties and acts renamed the Inca sovereigns as "kings of Peru" or "emperors of Peru," and the Kings of Spain as "Catholic Incas" or "Spanish Incas" of Peru, inheriting the sovereign rights of the Inca Empire through a "Translatio Imperii".

Posted 16th Apr 2026u/Every_Catch2871

War dogs, the secret weapon of the Conquistadors.

Posted 14th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Comparative chart on the population of Hispaniola, divided between the French Saint-Dominge and the Spanish Santo Domingo at the end of the 18th century.

Posted 15th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Friar Toribio de Benavente was one of the so-called "Twelve Apostles of New Spain" who arrived in what is now Mexico in 1524 with the goal of evangelizing the indigenous population.

Posted 15th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

On April 12, 1557, the conquistador Gil Ramírez Dávalos founded, under the orders of the Viceroy of Peru Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, the city of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca on the ruins of the Inca city of Tomebamba and the Cañari city of Guapondelig.

Posted 14th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Vasco de Quiroga (1470-1565). Lawyer, judge in New Spain, and first bishop of Michoacán. He was the driving force behind the utopian system of hospital-towns in New Spain, self-sufficient communities designed to protect, educate, and shelter Indians.

Posted 13th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Helmet from the late 15th century attributed to Ferdinand the Catholic.

Posted 13th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Words of Juan Fontán, Director General of Morocco and Colonies, to the Governor of Spanish Guinea in 1943:

Posted 12th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

In the import permits for slaves to the Americas during the 17th and 18th centuries, the quantity was reflected in "tons of blacks" (actually referring to the number of ships). There were also "black breeding farms" in the Americas for the production of slaves.

Posted 12th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

The total number of emigrants from Spain to the Indies during the 16th century is generally estimated at between 200,000 and 250,000, or an average of 2,000 to 2,600 per year.

Posted 12th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

A bull of Clement XII from 1739 prohibited the admission of mestizos and mulattos into the Order of Saint Augustine of Mexico because they were "individuals generally despised by society, unworthy of holding public office and of being in charge of the direction of souls."

Posted 12th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Around 1570, an enslaved African man on the sugar cane plantations of Veracruz made a decision that would occupy the colonial government of New Spain for the next five decades.

Posted 10th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

The Spanish expedition to Cambodia in 1593 was a failed attempt to establish a protectorate. The mission aimed to aid King Satha I against the Siamese invasion, forge an alliance, expand commercial influence, and create a base for a future conquest of China.

Posted 9th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

The Spanish conquistador Alonso de Mendoza founded the city of Nuestra Señora de la Paz, better known as La Paz, in what is now Bolivia, on October 20, 1548. He gave it that name because of the end of the Great Rebellion of Encomenderos that occurred in the Kingdom of Peru.

Posted 9th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

What was a Ladino Indian?

Posted 9th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

The Morochucos of Pampa Cangallo, Peru.

Posted 8th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

The Kingdom of Peru Was a World Power. (17th century)

Posted 8th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Did Catholic Indians persecute and execute crypto-Jews in Peru?

Posted 8th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

In the Battles of Cagayan in 1583, a contingent of Spanish veterans and Tlaxcalan warriors under the command of Captain Juan Pablo de Carrión faced a fleet of Rōnin (masterless samurais) and Wakō (pirates of Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Filipino origin) led by Tay Fusa.

Posted 8th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

On March 6, 1521, Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer in the service of the Spanish crown, discovered the island of Guaján (Guam) in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, inaugurating the Spanish presence in those distant lands.

Posted 7th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

Saint Martin de Porres, also known as Juan Martín de Porres Velázquez was a Peruvian religious figure of the Dominican order, considered the first mulatto saint of the Americas.

Posted 5th Apr 2026u/elnovorealista2000

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