Between 1520 and 1550, printing presses in Spain were tightly controlled, and any books of Protestant teaching were prohibited. |
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Protestants in Spain were estimated at between 1000 and 3000, mainly among intellectuals who had seen writings such as those of Erasmus. |
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Reformation did not succeed in Portugal, as similar reasons to Spain prevented it from spreading. |
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France encouraged the corsairs against Spain, and later Britain and Holland supported them against France. |
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Spain claimed a protectorate over the coast of Guinea from Cape Bojador to Cap Blanc, too. |
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While their and others' attacks brought home a great deal of money, they hardly dented the flow of gold and silver from Mexico to Spain. |
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Following a brief war in 1893, Spain expanded its influence south from Melilla. |
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During the Second World War the Vichy French presence in Tangier was overcome by that of Francoist Spain. |
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Depredations continued, leading to growing tension between England and Spain, which were still technically at peace. |
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As a young man, Walpole had bought shares in the South Sea Company, which monopolized trade with Spain, the Caribbean and South America. |
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Spain claimed the right to board and search British vessels to ensure compliance with this provision. |
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Aware of the efforts of the Spanish to find a route to India by sailing west, Magellan presented his plan to Charles I of Spain. |
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In 1994 and 1995, 80 fossils of six individuals who may have belonged to the species were found in Atapuerca, Spain. |
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Spain acquired Britain's Florida colonies and the island of Minorca, but failed in its primary aim of recovering Gibraltar. |
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Previously France had only been willing to act in conjunction with Spain but now they were willing to go to war alone if necessary. |
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Spain finally entered the war officially in June 1779, thus implementing the Treaty of Aranjuez. |
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Since the entry of France and Spain into the war, the British lacked the necessary ships to match their opponents' every move. |
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In 1959, the Spanish territory on the Gulf of Guinea was established with a status similar to the provinces of metropolitan Spain. |
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One notable success took place on February 5, 1782, when Spanish and French forces captured Minorca, which Spain retained after the war. |
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The peninsula is principally divided between Portugal and Spain, comprising most of their territory. |
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After Spain sent Columbus on his first voyage to the New World in 1492, other explorers followed. |
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It became a target for the traditional enemies of Spain, losing a large share of the trade to the Dutch, English, and French. |
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In 1815, at the Council of Vienna, Spain, Portugal, France, and the Netherlands also agreed to abolish their slave trade. |
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The notion of a free trade system encompassing multiple sovereign states originated in a rudimentary form in 16th century Imperial Spain. |
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By 1795, the French had captured the Austrian Netherlands and knocked Spain and Prussia out of the war with the Peace of Basel. |
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The French army in Spain advanced, advancing in Catalonia while taking Bilbao and Vitoria and marching toward Castile. |
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The A400M's maiden flight, originally planned for 2008, took place on 11 December 2009 from Seville, Spain. |
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To this list could be added the hegemony of Habsburg Spain in 16th century Europe. |
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Poland is the European Union's fourth largest supplier of pork after Germany, Spain and France. |
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Over the next decade, a considerable amount of American aid would go to Spain, but less than its neighbors had received under the Marshall Plan. |
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In 1969, under international pressure, Spain returned Sidi Ifni to Morocco. |
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The Moriscos revolted several times and were ultimately forcibly expelled from Spain in the early 17th century. |
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The original members were Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. |
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The 10 founding members were Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. |
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Both France and Spain refused to allow US aircraft to fly over their territory for the raid. |
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The Guadiana bends southwards and forms the border between Spain and Portugal in the last stretch of its course. |
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Because of the continuing war with Spain, White was unable to mount another resupply attempt for an additional three years. |
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This encounter was extremely controversial in Spain, being until nowadays a very sensitive point of the Government of Aznar. |
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On 18 March 2003, the bombing of Iraq by the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Poland, Spain, Italy and Denmark began. |
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As Great Britain displaced Spain as the dominant European imperial power, it opened up more land for colonial development. |
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In 1766, France surrendered its claim on the Falklands to Spain, which renamed the French colony Puerto Soledad the following year. |
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In the 1950s, Franco renewed Spain's claim to sovereignty over Gibraltar and restricted movement between Gibraltar and Spain. |
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In response, Spain completely closed the border with Gibraltar and severed all communication links. |
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The border with Spain was partially reopened in 1982 and fully reopened in 1985 before Spain's accession to the European Community. |
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Gibraltar is a popular port for cruise ships and attracts day visitors from resorts in Spain. |
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The Rock is a popular tourist attraction, particularly among British tourists and residents in the southern coast of Spain. |
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Most locals are bilingual, also speaking Spanish, because of Gibraltar's proximity to Spain. |
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Motorists and pedestrians crossing the border with Spain are occasionally subjected to very long delays. |
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Firstly, Spain was insisting on a time element for a full transfer of sovereignty to Spain. |
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Finally, Spain wanted a greater role than simply joint use of Gibraltar as a military base. |
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After the referendum Gibraltar's Government increasingly felt it could demand a say in its future in any talks with Spain. |
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On September 6, 1522 Victoria returned to Spain, thus completing the first circumnavigation of the globe. |
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In the Autonomous Communities of Spain, the autonomy statute is a legal document similar to a state constitution in a federated state. |
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Spain and Italy have system of devolution where regions have autonomy, but the national government retains the right to revoke it. |
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Of the men who set out on five ships, only 18 completed the circumnavigation and managed to return to Spain in this single vessel led by Elcano. |
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Under an 1861 agreement, France, Britain and Spain organized a joint military force to compel the Mexican government to pay. |
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Transfer of colonial possessions between Great Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal. |
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The involvement of Portugal, Spain and Sweden did not return them to their former status as great powers. |
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Because of its reputation, it was widely sought and was translated twice into Latin in the 12th century, once in Sicily and again in Spain. |
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Only after an ambitious rebuilding program in combination with Spain was France again able to challenge Britain's command of the sea. |
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Gates singled out Germany, Poland, Spain, Turkey, and the Netherlands for criticism. |
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Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August. |
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Ford had now divided its European operations between its British factories and other European plants in Spain, Belgium and West Germany. |
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Major structural sections of the A380 are built in France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom. |
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Production of the first fuselage barrel began in late 2010 at its production plant in Illescas, Spain. |
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However, in the case of Spain changes were made at the time of transposing the Directive. |
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With the addition of Alenia of Italy and CASA of Spain the FIMA group became Euroflag. |
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The original partner nations were France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Belgium, and Luxembourg. |
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Static structural testing of an A400M test airframe began on 12 March 2008 in Spain. |
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According to the CIA World Factbook, from 2010 to 2011, the unemployment rates in Spain, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, and the UK increased. |
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In 2012 the economic difficulties in Spain increased support for secession movements. |
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At the beginning of 2009, the UK and Spain completed their initial plans, while Germany announced a new plan. |
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This was largely caused by the sudden influx of gold and silver from the New World into Habsburg Spain. |
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Exceptions were later added for certain activities legal where they took place, such as bullfighting in Spain. |
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He has been charged by Spain with alleged tax offenses, money laundering and corruption among individuals in other cases of corruption. |
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In 1839 he visited France, Spain and Italy for three months to advise on railways, meeting the leading French railway engineer Paulin Talabot. |
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That year George was returning ill from a trip to Spain and suffered an attack of pleurisy in the cabin of the packet bound for Southampton. |
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Fearing the worst, the Romans began a major mobilization, all but pulling out of recently pacified Spain and Gaul. |
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Some countries, such as France and Spain, had already established basin agencies before the enactment of the directive. |
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However, the Navarrese territory north of the Pyrenees remained beyond the reach of an increasingly powerful Spain. |
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Texas has a large percentage of Hispanics descended from Basques who participated in the conquest of New Spain. |
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Spain had chosen England's weakest link and probably could have captured London in a week. |
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Before the advent of industrialisation, this system resulted in the emigration of many rural Basques to Spain, France or the Americas. |
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Today, the Southern Basque Country within Spain enjoys an extensive cultural and political autonomy. |
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Some Basques, especially in Spain, are strongly nationalist, identifying far more firmly as Basques than as citizens of any existing state. |
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Britain has far fewer of Maghrebis than France, The Netherlands or Spain, where the majority of Muslims are Maghrebi. |
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He had made an evangelistic tour of Spain in 1838 and after 1869 the work expanded in Barcelona and Madrid and also in Portugal. |
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Portugal and Spain, two of the greatest naval powers of the time, took the lead in exploring the world. |
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In 2010, fears of a sovereign debt crisis developed concerning some countries in Europe, especially Greece, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal. |
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Thus, when Julius Caesar returned from a governorship in Spain in 61 BC, he found it easy to make an arrangement with Pompey. |
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After Spain he spent two weeks in Paris, attending lectures at the Sorbonne, followed by a week in London. |
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The musical style emerged shortly afterwards in Spain and other areas of Latin America where it came to be known under similar names. |
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Oldfield then moved from his Gloucestershire home to Palma de Mallorca, Spain and then to Monaco. |
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Some surviving structures are almost complete, such as the town walls of Lugo in Hispania Tarraconensis, now northern Spain. |
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In July and August 2002, Radiohead toured Portugal and Spain, playing a number of new songs. |
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The oldest European cave art dates back 40,800, and can be found in the El Castillo Cave in Spain. |
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Since 2005, Ofili has been living and working in Trinidad and Tobago, where he currently resides in Port of Spain. |
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He first attacked Vigo in Spain and held the place for two weeks ransoming supplies. |
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He maintains a studio on Lady Chancellor Road, about ten minutes from downtown Port of Spain, in Trinidad. |
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In Spain the Los Millares culture was formed, characterized by the Beaker culture, which pictured human figures with big eyes. |
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Two telegrams from workers' parties in France and Spain were also read out. |
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This is presumed to be the Cross of Burgundy, the war flag of Spain, rather than an Irish flag. |
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The former Soviet Union, Spain and the United Kingdom, amongst others, are held to be unions of many nations by various definitions. |
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Drake was considered a hero in England and a pirate in Spain for his raids. |
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Similarly, long waiting times were reported at external border crossing points in France and Spain. |
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Spain only permits residence cards from Schengen countries, therefore cards from the UK, Ireland, Bulgaria, Romania, and Cyprus are not allowed. |
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There is also a similar system for local border traffic permits between Spain and Morocco regarding Ceuta and Melilla. |
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This system is older and was included in the 1991 accession treaty of Spain to the Schengen Area. |
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However, although valid as a travel document to the UK, they were not accepted by Spain. |
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In Spain the formal identity number on an ID card is the most important piece of identification. |
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They were used for gladiatorial contests, public displays, public meetings and bullfights, the tradition of which still survives in Spain. |
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Spain disputes the EEZ's southern border, maintaining that it should be drawn halfway between Madeira and the Canary Islands. |
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Prior to the undertaking, Pope Sixtus V allowed Philip II of Spain to collect crusade taxes and granted his men indulgences. |
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Many more later died in Spain, or on hospital ships in Spanish harbours, from diseases contracted during the voyage. |
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Roman theatres were built in all areas of the empire from Spain, to the Middle East. |
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Before he was able to leave Africa, Mauri tribesmen invaded southern Spain. |
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Two more armadas were sent by Spain, in 1596 and 1597, but both were once more scattered by treacherous storms. |
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The Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. |
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In 1771, his Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands cautioned against war with Spain. |
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It is the third longest bridge in Portugal and one of the longest in Spain. |
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In the 1960s Portugal and Spain conducted studies to determine if a bridge in the area was possible. |
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Portugal's maritime borders, also known as the Exclusive economic zone of Portugal is currently disputed by Spain in the Savage Islands area. |
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This treaty established the border between Portugal and Spain which is one of the oldest borders in Europe. |
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In Portugal, Spain, Southern France and some Latin American countries, bulls are used in the sport of bullfighting. |
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On October 31 of 1527 Saavedra sailed from New Spain, crossing the Pacific and touring the north of New Guinea, then named Isla de Oro. |
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On Raleigh's return to England, James had him executed to the indignation of the public, who opposed the appeasement of Spain. |
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Her own attempt to negotiate a marriage to Don Carlos, the mentally unstable heir apparent of King Philip II of Spain, was rebuffed by Philip. |
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Charles made peace with France and Spain, effectively ending England's involvement in the Thirty Years' War. |
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Unfortunately for James, negotiation with Spain proved generally unpopular, both with the public and with James's court. |
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Furthermore, Spain had begun to exile or jail any person who called for liberal reforms. |
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In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Netherlands launched major colonization programs in eastern North America. |
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Russian America and parts of New France and New Spain were also incorporated into the United States at various points. |
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Starting in the 15th century, Spain built a huge colonial empire in the Americas, consisting of New Spain and other viceroyalties. |
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Spain established several small outposts in Florida in the early 16th century. |
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A further colony, Britonia, was also set up at this time in Gallaecia in northwestern Spain. |
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Spain sent no more settlers or missionaries to Florida during this second colonial period. |
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Competing with Spain, the first English colony in the Americas was founded in 1585 by explorer Walter Raleigh in Virginia and named Roanoke. |
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Also, early in the colonization of Puerto Rico, attempts were made to wrest control of Puerto Rico from Spain. |
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In 1763, Louisiana was ceded to Spain around New Orleans and west of the Mississippi River. |
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The situation changed when Napoleon forced Spain to return Louisiana to France in 1802 and threatened to close the river to American vessels. |
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True enough, Spain has become a filmset to me, the whole of it barely more real than Fort Bravo itself. |
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Spain ceded Florida to Great Britain in 1763, which established the colonies of East and West Florida. |
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They were returned to Spain in 1783 in exchange for the Bahamas, at which time most of the British left. |
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Spain made some minor territorial gains but failed in its primary aim of recovering Gibraltar. |
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Spain was wary of provoking war with Britain before she was ready, so she covertly supplied the Patriots via her colonies in New Spain. |
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However, Spain affirmed its desire to support the Americans the following year, hoping to weaken Britain's empire. |
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On 12 April 1779, Spain signed the Treaty of Aranjuez with France and went to war against Britain. |
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Edward had restored the lands of the former Angevin Empire holding Normandy, Brittany, Anjou, Maine and the coastline from Flanders to Spain. |
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On 12 April 1779, Spain entered the war, with a primary goal of capturing Gibraltar. |
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For the next three years he visited Blois, Poitiers, Tours, Italy, and Spain. |
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Spain initially impeded the negotiations, refusing to enter into peace talks until Gibraltar had been captured. |
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James quarrelled with his brother over the diplomatic choice of Spain over France. |
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William continued to fight against the invaders from England and France, allying himself with Spain and Brandenburg. |
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Other areas not generally recognised as Celtic Nations, such as Galicia in Spain, also have communities of revivalist interest and activity. |
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In Spain, a highly original variant of the style, Catalan Modernisme, appeared in Barcelona. |
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The only precedent for a joint monarchy in England dated from the 16th century, when Queen Mary I married Philip of Spain. |
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The Moors in Spain grew, spun and wove cotton beginning around the 10th century. |
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It breeds from Spain and Portugal east into central Europe and Ukraine, north to southern Sweden, Latvia and the UK, and south to southern Italy. |
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Red kites are decreasing in their strongholds of Spain, France and Germany. |
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At the concluding Treaty of Utrecht, Philip renounced his and his descendants' right to the French throne and Spain lost its empire in Europe. |
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Tres Cantos, near Madrid, is a good example of a successful new town design in Spain. |
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In 1962, Spain, ruled by the military dictator Francisco Franco, issued its first attempt to join the European Communities. |
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After the king's execution in January 1793, these powers, along with Spain and most other European states, joined the war against France. |
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In April 1795, France concluded a peace agreement with Prussia, later that year peace was agreed with Spain. |
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Spain is suggested as one possible de facto federation than are retained by the constituent entities of most federations. |
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In April 1809 the 1st Battalion made their way to the Iberian Peninsula where they were to take part in the Peninsular War in Portugal and Spain. |
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While not a combatant themselves in Spain, they absorbed many of the lessons learned in time to use them. |
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The universities of France were abolished and over half of the universities in both Germany and Spain were destroyed. |
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The bagpipe is first attested in Scotland around 1400, having previously appeared in European artwork in Spain in the 13th century. |
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The single was awarded Platinum in Germany and Belgium and Gold in Spain and Switzerland. |
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The United States and France were soon joined by Spain and the Dutch Republic, while Britain had no major allies of its own. |
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An existing tradition of Romance fiction in France and Spain was popular in England. |
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The French occupied Spain and formed a Spanish client kingdom, ending the alliance between the two. |
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As Napoleon realised that extensive trade was going through Spain and Russia, he invaded those two countries. |
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When Spain failed to maintain the Continental System, the uneasy Spanish alliance with France ended in all but name. |
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The Napoleonic wars also played a key role in the independence of the Latin American colonies from Spain and Portugal. |
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The conflict weakened the authority and military power of Spain, especially after the Battle of Trafalgar. |
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Spain's armies also peaked at around 200,000 men, not including more than 50,000 guerrillas scattered over Spain. |
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There were many successful battles that helped Spain secure its dominance of America until the 19th century. |
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In the Imperial Election of 1519, the Kings of Spain, France, and England fought for the imperial title. |
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The King of Spain was a grandson of the deceased emperor, but the electors thought him to be a foreigner as much as the French king. |
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Lancastrian cognatic descent from John of Gaunt and Blanche's daughter Phillipa continued in the royal houses of Spain and Portugal. |
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In July his men took over Veracruz and he placed himself under direct orders of new king Charles I of Spain. |
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Henry decided to keep Brittany out of French hands, signed an alliance with Spain to that end, and sent 7,000 troops to France. |
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Heartened by France's loss in Russia, Prussia joined with Austria, Sweden, Russia, Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal in a new coalition. |
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With Portugal secured, Wellesley advanced into Spain to unite with General Cuesta's forces. |
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Campaigning in Spain, he routed the French at the Battle of Salamanca, taking advantage of a minor French mispositioning. |
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The Venerable Bede tells of the Scotti coming from Spain via Ireland and the Picts coming from Scythia. |
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When civil war broke out in Spain, Hitler and Mussolini lent military support to the Nationalist rebels, led by General Francisco Franco. |
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France, Burgundy, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain and the Hanseatic League all rejected the treaty, which was never in force. |
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Churchill, holidaying in Spain when the Germans reoccupied the Rhineland in February 1936, returned to a divided Britain. |
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The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. |
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The economic monopoly of the metropolis was the main reason why many countries decided to become independent from Spain. |
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The end of the Civil War in 1865 prompted both France and Spain to evacuate those two countries. |
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Spain also fought several wars against Chile and Peru for the guano deposits of their islands. |
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In 1975, Spain ceded administration of Western Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania. |
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These amenity beds do not exist in all publicly funded systems, such as in Spain. |
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The Spanish Constitution of 1978 granted autonomy to the nationalities and regions of which the Kingdom of Spain is composed. |
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The central government of Spain considers that a binding referendum is unconstitutional and cannot be held. |
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As the Aztec Empire ended he claimed the city for Spain, renaming it Mexico City. |
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European route E01 runs from Larne through the island of Ireland, Spain and Portugal to Seville. |
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In 1800, France's Napoleon Bonaparte reacquired Louisiana from Spain in the Treaty of San Ildefonso, an arrangement kept secret for two years. |
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At the Emperor's death, the Byzantines had control of most of Italy, North Africa, and a small foothold in southern Spain. |
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Kings in France, England, and Spain consolidated their power, and set up lasting governing institutions. |
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The Spanish crusades became fused with the Reconquista of Spain from the Muslims. |
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In 1762 the resumption of hostilities with Spain led to the British capture of Manila and of Havana, along with a Spanish fleet sheltering there. |
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In 1568 the Dutch rebelled against the rule of Philip II of Spain leading to the Eighty Years' War. |
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In November 1996 Spain confirmed its order but Germany delayed its decision. |
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Also that year, Spain took delivery of its first series production aircraft. |
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Some countries, such as Spain and Russia, saw the advantages of harmonising their units of measure with those of their trading partners. |
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Small numbers were built in other European countries, including in France, Belgium, Spain, and Hungary, also at Dannemora, Sweden. |
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In April 2007 National Express acquired Continental Auto, the second largest bus and coach operator in Spain. |
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In 2005, research by the Institute for Public Policy Research published by the BBC suggested that there were 761,000 British residents in Spain. |
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Research has shown that a section of the British population in Spain is poorly integrated into Spanish society. |
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In 1404, Owain was reputedly crowned Prince of Wales in the presence of emissaries from France, Spain and Scotland. |
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Philip returned to England from March to July 1557 to persuade Mary to support Spain in a renewed war against France. |
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The National Association of British Schools in Spain has 52 member schools. |
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Spain does not divide its nationals by ethnic group, although it does maintain an official notion of minority languages. |
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Total immersion Spanish language schools have become very popular in Latin America and Spain. |
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Elizabeth was cautious in foreign affairs, manoeuvring between the major powers of France and Spain. |
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Spanish is the official or national language in Spain, Equatorial Guinea, and 19 countries in the Americas. |
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In Europe, Spanish is an official language of Spain, the country after which it is named and from which it originated. |
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The Visigoths in Spain followed his lead in 589, and the Lombards in Italy in the course of the 7th century. |
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Germany, Italy, Spain and Belgium writhed in the throes of Anarchy, while Russia, watching from the Caucasus, stooped and bound them one by one. |
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The resulting vast expansion of territory and the flows of South American silver to Castile had profound long term effects on Spain. |
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However, the victory was not a turning point in the war, which continued and often favoured Spain. |
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Her policy there was to grant land to her courtiers and prevent the rebels from giving Spain a base from which to attack England. |
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He had many Spanish counselors and, except for the revolt of the comuneros in the 1520s, Spain remained mostly loyal to him. |
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Spain successfully held on to all of its Italian territories, though they were invaded again on multiple occasions during the Italian Wars. |
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For goodness' sake, we go to Spain for a week and get new next-door neighbors! How lovely! |
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The conflicts with Spain and in Ireland dragged on, the tax burden grew heavier, and the economy was hit by poor harvests and the cost of war. |
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The monarchs of Spain and the UK have a common ancestor namely Queen Victoria. |
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These imports contributed to inflation in Spain and Europe from the last decades of the 16th century. |
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Spain was not yet at peace, as Henry II of France came to the throne in 1547 and immediately renewed conflict with Spain. |
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In Spain, Fulgentius of Cartagena, Ildephonsus of Toledo and Leander of Seville have been recognized with this title. |
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Saint George, San Chorche in Aragonese, is the patron of Aragon, one of the autonomous communities of Spain. |
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Only seven or eight of the native 'Indians' arrived in Spain alive, but they made quite an impression on Seville. |
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Portugal required an extensive occupation force to keep it under control, and Spain was still reeling from the 1576 bankruptcy. |
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Spain had invested itself in the religious warfare in France after Henry II's death. |
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In 1609, the great majority of the Morisco population of Spain was expelled. |
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The qualifications framework for higher education MECES is the reference framework adopted in Spain in order to structure degree levels. |
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Complutense University was the only one in Spain authorised to confer the doctorate. |
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The longest cathedrals of Spain, including Seville, which has the largest floor area of any medieval church, are about 120 metres. |
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Many of the more elaborate forms are unique to England, with stellar vaulting also occurring in Spain and Germany. |
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This form is very common in castles adapted for guns, found in Egypt, Italy, Scotland, and Spain, and elsewhere in between. |
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The usage is essentially the same in Italy, Spain and Portugal, as well as the former Austrian Empire. |
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With over a thousand years of monarchic history, Spain has many palaces of its own that were built for different monarchs or nobles. |
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In Spain, there was still a struggle to introduce the values of the Enlightenment, in which Goya saw himself as a participant. |
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In Spain, parents will sing lullabies or tell rhymes to children, warning them that if they do not sleep, El Coco will come and get them. |
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Peace with England and France gave Spain an opportunity to focus its energies on restoring its rule to the Dutch provinces. |
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In 1609, the Twelve Years' Truce was signed between Spain and the United Provinces. |
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Monteagle's part in the discovery of the plot was welcomed, and denunciations of the 1603 mission to Spain featured strongly. |
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Olivares realized that Spain needed to reform, and to reform it needed peace, first and foremost with the United Provinces. |
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Spain badly needed time and peace to repair its finances and to rebuild its economy. |
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Internal tariffs were abolished by Henry VIII of England, they survived in Russia till 1753, 1789 in France and 1839 in Spain. |
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The Treaty of the Pyrenees, signed in 1659, ended the war between France and Spain and is often considered part of the overall accord. |
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What is now called Latin America, a designation that came into usage in the later nineteenth century, was claimed by Spain and Portugal. |
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Spain had founded small settlements in Florida and Georgia, but nowhere near the size of those in New Spain or the Caribbean islands. |
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England was at war with France and hence did not want to offend Spain, which claimed the territory as part of New Granada. |
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Despite her country's ongoing struggle with Spain, Catherine enjoyed a happy, contented childhood in her beloved Lisbon. |
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Spain still had a huge overseas empire, but France was now the dominant power in Europe and the United Provinces were in the Atlantic. |
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This territory later became the Viceroyalty of New Spain, present day Mexico. |
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Nearly 340 caves have now been discovered in France and Spain that contain art from prehistoric times. |
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Spain plans to restore a fifth of its coastline from overdeveloped concrete jungle to a more natural state. |
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In the early 1580s, he argued unsuccessfully for an assault on Spain itself. |
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Spain tried to use its armies to fight back but had no help from European powers. |
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Gollancz feared the second half would offend readers and added a disculpatory preface to the book while Orwell was in Spain. |
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Shortly afterwards, the political crisis began in Spain and Orwell followed developments there closely. |
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Orwell set out for Spain on about 23 December 1936, dining with Henry Miller in Paris on the way. |
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From there, the goods were transshipped across Mexico to the Spanish treasure fleets, for shipment to Spain. |
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Balfour Gardiner to join him and the brothers Clifford and Arnold Bax in Spain. |
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Additionally dogs are sent to foreign racetracks such as Spain and sometimes in developing countries. |
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His charge was halted by Max Verstappen, who took his maiden win in Spain in his debut race for Red Bull. |
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Spain passed some laws for the protection of the indigenous peoples of its New World territories. |
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They are also tied for sixth by number of wins, alongside France and Spain. |
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In UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying, Scotland were grouped with Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Czech Republic and world champions Spain. |
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England was chosen as host of the 1966 World Cup in Rome, Italy on 22 August 1960, over rival bids from West Germany and Spain. |
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A referee is initially placed into Category 4 with the exception of referees from France, Germany, England, Italy, or Spain. |
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Samaranch's ties with the Franco regime in Spain were also a source of criticism. |
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She died in Spain while he was attending the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. |
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The settlers came from Spain had to settle in towns, where the local government belonged to the Cabildo. |
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Perpignan hosted Toulon in a quarterfinal before a sellout crowd of 55,000 at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, Spain. |
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A recent survey showed fan bases in Australia, the United States, France, Spain, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, the Middle East, Chile and Greece. |
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Though there were substantial improvements by the late 18th century, Spain was still an economic backwater. |
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Italy beat Germany, Austria and Spain to win the bid for 44th edition of Ryder Cup. |
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More bad luck struck him in Spain where he kept pace with Prost for most of the race only for his engine to fail. |
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Hamilton became widely unpopular in Spain because of his rivalry with Spanish former teammate Fernando Alonso. |
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It was not until the continent itself was explored that Spain found the wealth it had sought. |
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At the next race in Spain, Williams brought in test driver David Coulthard as Hill's new teammate. |
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At the Monaco Grand Prix the same qualifying results as in Spain were achieved with Button on pole. |
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At the European Grand Prix in Valencia, Spain, Vettel won from pole position, leading every lap of the race. |
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The championship is perhaps most closely followed in Italy and Spain, home of many of the more successful riders early in the 21st century. |
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In 1684 the city was heavily bombarded by a French fleet as punishment for its alliance with Spain. |
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Spain contributed to the independence of the British Thirteen Colonies together with France. |
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Symbols from the colonial powers France and Spain are also incorporated into the Baton Rouge flag. |
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This species grows in the Mediterranean Sea region, with Portugal, Spain, Algeria, and Morocco producing most of the world's supply. |
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Spain and France were allies because of the Bourbon Pacte de Famille carried out by both countries against Britain. |
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The American Army that won the Battles of Saratoga was equipped and armed by Spain and that victory did that France came into the conflict. |
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The Disarmament Commission obtained initial agreement from France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Britain to limit the size of their navies. |
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Its closest relative, Galician, has official status in the autonomous community of Galicia in Spain, together with Spanish. |
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