Questions tagged [spain]
Spain is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. It is bordered by Portugal to the west, and France to the north.
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Who owned the ship Ensayo, and what were they doing near Baja California in 1842?
According to Plummer's The Shogun's Reluctant Ambassadors, in 1842, sea drifters from the Eijū-maru were picked up and by the Ensayo, a "Spanish pirate ship" with a Philippine crew. It was "carrying ...
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What was Pope Innocent VIII's reaction to the Edict of Expulsion of the Jews in 1492?
What was the reaction of the Pope of the Catholic Church to the Edict of Expulsion of the Jews of Spain on March 31, 1492?
Did Pope Innocent VIII (d. July 25, 1492) condemn publicly Spain's decree? ...
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What's the story behind the making of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible?
The Complutensian Polyglot Bible was the first printed polyglot of the entire Bible and was, from what I can gather, a pretty complex scholarly effort in which many different scholars had to come ...
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When Were Morions Last Worn By Spanish Soldiers?
Around when were morions last worn by Spanish soldiers, particularly in the Western Hemisphere?
I can't find much about this online.
I'm also wondering what they were replaced with at the time.
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Was a copy of Bobadilla's report on Christopher Columbus really found in a Spanish archive in 2006?
As claimed in The Guardian
A transcription of the document is apparently available on JSTOR here, the section "Pesquisa Del Comendador Francisco de Bobadilla".
I cannot read Spanish and otherwise ...
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Did Spain have a strategic plan for its navy in the Spanish–American War?
Admiral Cervera y Topete is cited in many places as having thought that the Spanish couldn't defeat the Americans in war due to the dilapidated state of the Spanish Navy. The position of the Spanish ...
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Are these two images of Juan Diez Porlier or Francisco Espoz y Mina?
This sketch
and this miniature clearly derived from it
occur on the web in several places as both an image of Francisco Espoz y Mina and Juan Diaz Porlier. Both were well known and recognized ...
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In Spain after 1492 what were relations like between converted Jews and converted Muslims?
Is it possible that there was a closeness between the two communities of new Christians or conversely, did they deliberately avoid each other to dispel any concerns Spain might have had about the ...
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Why did Spanish kings repeatedly split their kingdoms between their children upon death?
In the middle ages, Christian-held Spain were split into different kingdoms and realms. Before the eventual unification by the "Catholic Monarchs" (Ferdinand II and Isabela I), other kings have ...
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The squirrel which could cross an entire realm jumping from branch to branch
The metaphor (or meme) of the squirrel that could cross an entire territory without touching the ground is very old and, as far as the Iberian Peninsula is concerned, is attributed (maybe wrongly) to ...
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Is there a story for how striking and fielding games started in Spain?
I have done some research to find the origins of striking and fielding games in Spain and have found that Gilli-Danda and Basque Pelota are the oldest forms of striking and fielding games played in ...
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How did Incas chroniclers learn to draw?
I came across the magnificent work of an Inca chronicler named Waman Puma de Ayala -- or Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala -- and I wondered: how did he learn to draw his codex?
Resources for viewing his ...
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Where can I read Andrés Segovía's original autobiographical manuscript?
I'm reading an autobiography of the celebrated guitarist, Andrés Segovía (worldcat). The book is listed in some places (such as Amazon) as "English/Spanish edition", but the text is only ...
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Why did General Dupont surrender in the Battle of Bailén?
General Dupont's had, from my inexpert view, quite a superior army when he fought the Spanish forces at the Battle of Bailén. This battle was in fact the first defeat in open field of the Napoleonic ...
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What was the number of native casualties in the Muslim invasion of Hispania?
Where can I find information about the number of casualties amongst native peoples produced by the Muslim invasion of Visigothic Hispania?
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