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    The conquest of the Canary Islands by the Crown of Castile took place between 1402 and 1496 and described as the first instance of European settler colonialism...
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    The Canary Islands (/kəˈnɛəri/, Spanish: Canarias, Spanish: [kaˈnaɾjas]), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community...
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  • the rest of Spain, the majority religion in the Canary Islands is the Catholic Church. The Catholic religion has been the majority since the Conquest...
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  • Canary Islanders, or Canarians (Spanish: canarios), are the people of the Canary Islands, an autonomous community of Spain near the coast of northwest...
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    also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest...
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    Abenchara (category Prisoners and detainees of Spain)
    She was taken prisoner by the Castilian captain Pedro de Vera [es] during the conquest of the Canary Islands in the summer of 1482. Her husband, Tenesor...
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  • the history and conquest of the Canary Islands during the Age of Discovery in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The Canary Islands were first politically...
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    The Guanche were the indigenous inhabitants of the Spanish Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean some 100 kilometres (60 mi) to the west of modern...
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    Jean de Béthencourt. The conquest of the Canary Islands, inhabited by Guanche people, was only finished when the armies of the Crown of Castille won, in long...
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    The Canary Islands have been known since antiquity. Until the Spanish colonization between 1402 and 1496, the Canaries were populated by an indigenous...
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  • Inés Peraza (category Spanish conquest of the Canary Islands)
    monarch since the islands were unified by her father, Inés titled herself “Queen of the Canary Islands,” which she held until the assignment to the Catholic...
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  • Guanche language (category Culture of the Canary Islands)
    was spoken by the Guanches of the Canary Islands until the 16th or 17th century. It died out after the conquest of the Canary Islands as the Guanche ethnic...
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    Tordesillas the crown of Castile attempted to conquer of Melilla but still needed to end the Conquest of the Canary Islands, not to mention the economic...
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    The Kingdom of the Canary Islands was a vassal state of the Crown of Castile located in North Africa, lasting from 1404 to 1448. Apart from earlier contact...
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    The geology of the Canary Islands is dominated by volcanoes and volcanic rock. The Canary Islands are a group of volcanic islands in the North Atlantic...
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  • Beatriz de Bobadilla y Ossorio (category Spanish conquest of the Canary Islands)
    During the Spanish Conquest of the Canary Islands the island of La Gomera was not taken in battle but was incorporated into the Peraza-Herrera fiefdom...
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    Semidan) was a Guanche King and ally of the Spaniards who assisted them in their conquest of the Canary Islands during the late fifteenth century. He was originally...
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    Bimbache (category History of the Canary Islands)
    or Bimbape is the name given to the inhabitants of El Hierro, who inhabited the island before the Spanish conquest of the Canary Islands that took place...
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    a variant of standard Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands by the Canary Islanders. Canarian Spanish heavily influenced the development of Caribbean Spanish...
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    the Middle East), South Asia, and East Asia. The conquest of the Canary Islands by the Crown of Castile, from 1402 to 1496, has been described as the...
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  • Adelantado (category Spanish conquest of the Canary Islands)
    Beyond the peninsula, the term adelantado was granted to Alonso Fernández de Lugo in the conquest of the Canary Islands and was confirmed to members of his...
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    The Russian conquest of Siberia took place during 1580–1778, when the Khanate of Sibir became a loose political structure of vassalages that were being...
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    imperial conquest and colonization began with the Canary Islands in 1312 and 1402. which began the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands, completed...
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    lived at the end of the 14th century. He was the son of mencey Sunta, who ruled the island in the days before the conquest of the Canary Islands by Castile...
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    mythology of Tenerife (the Canary Islands), was the principal malignant deity and Achamán's adversary. According to Guanche legend, Guayota lived inside the Teide...
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    is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands. It is home to 42.9% of the total population of the archipelago. With a land area of 2,034...
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    from other islands), on 31 May 1494, during the Spanish conquest of this island. It resulted in a victory for the Guanches of Tenerife. The Spaniards were...
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  • Arriete left the port of La Rochelle, France with French explorer Jean de Béthencourt for the conquest of the Canary Islands. After subduing the native population...
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  • participated in the European conquest of the Canary Islands in the 15th century. Peraza was also the territorial lord of the islands of La Gomera and El...
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    El Hierro (redirect from El Hierro Island)
    Meridiano (the "Meridian Island"), is the second-smallest and farthest south and west of the Canary Islands (an autonomous community of Spain), in the Atlantic...
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