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    During the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the Spanish Main was the collective term for the parts of the Spanish Empire that were on the mainland...
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  • The Spanish Main is a 1945 American adventure film starring Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak and Binnie Barnes, and directed by Frank Borzage...
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  • Germany Main, Iran, a village in Fars Province Spanish Main, the Caribbean coasts of mainland Spanish territories in the 16th and 17th centuries The Main, the...
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    of styrene cards. Pirates of the Spanish Main won a Vanguard Award at the 2005 Origins Awards. In November 2008, Topps, the owner of Wizkids, announced...
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    victory in the Spanish–American War with Spain, ending the Spanish colonial era. Spanish possession and rule of its remaining colonies in the Americas ended...
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    España The Spanish Constitution does not contain any one official name for Spain. Instead, the terms España (Spain), Estado español (Spanish State) and...
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    Spanish Town is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica. It was the Spanish and British...
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    Spanish settlements 1493–1515 – Spanish exploration, conquest, enslavement, and settlement in the Caribbean and the Spanish Main 1502 – Moctezuma II elected...
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    along the Spanish Main. Drake's circumnavigation began on 15 December 1577. He crossed the Pacific Ocean, until then an area of exclusive Spanish interest...
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    The Anglo-Spanish War was a conflict between the English Protectorate under Oliver Cromwell, and Spain, between 1654 and 1660. It was caused by commercial...
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  • The Saint on the Spanish Main is a collection of short stories by Leslie Charteris, first published in 1955 by The Crime Club in the United States and...
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    The Spanish treasure fleet, or West Indies Fleet (Spanish: Flota de Indias, also called silver fleet or plate fleet; from the Spanish: plata meaning "silver")...
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    prior. The PCE was a merger of the Spanish Communist Party (Spanish: Partido Comunista Español) and the Spanish Communist Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido...
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    Antilles to the ports along the Spanish Main on the coast of Central America and New Spain, then northwards into the Yucatán Channel to catch the westerly...
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    Frankfurt am Main (German: [ˈfʁaŋkfʊʁt ʔam ˈmaɪn] ; lit. "Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 773,068...
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    settlements and shipping ports on the Spanish Main, becoming wealthy as they did so. With the prize money and loot from the raids, Morgan purchased three...
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    the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, in which the celebration of the Feast of Toxcatl ended in a massacre of...
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    The Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) was an intermittent conflict between the Habsburg Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of England that was never formally...
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    Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art History portal Spain portal Spanish Colonial architecture Black legend (Spain) Society in the Spanish Colonial...
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    II. In this period the Spanish empire was at the zenith of its influence and power. Spain, or "the Spains", referring to Spanish territories across different...
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    Francis Drake embarked on a long and disastrous campaign against the Spanish Main, suffering several consecutive defeats there. On 22 November 1595 Drake...
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    speakers. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries, as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Spanish is the world's second-most...
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    The Spanish West Indies, Spanish Caribbean or the Spanish Antilles (also known as "Las Antillas Occidentales" or simply "Las Antillas Españolas" in Spanish)...
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    The 1625 to 1630 Anglo–Spanish War was fought by England, in alliance with the Dutch Republic, and Spain. A related conflict of the Eighty Years' War...
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    Buccaneer (category Piracy in the Caribbean)
    enough to sail for the mainland of Spanish America, known as the Spanish Main, and sacked cities. Perhaps what distinguished the buccaneers from earlier...
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  • The plot was supposedly led by Lord Cobham and funded by the Spanish government. In a state trial, the defendants accused of involvement in the Main Plot...
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    The Anglo–Spanish War (Spanish: Guerra Anglo-Española) was a military conflict fought between Britain and Spain as part of the Seven Years' War. It lasted...
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  • Mainland (redirect from Main land)
    the main part of a country or continent, not including the islands around it [regardless of status under territorial jurisdiction by an entity]." The...
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    childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700, which led to a struggle for control of the Spanish Empire amongst supporters of the claimant Bourbon and...
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  • Pole Daniel Cerqueira as De Fuensalida, the Spanish ambassador to England Aaron Cobham as Oviedo, a Spanish Muslim crossbow-maker and one of Princess...
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