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    The Cortes of Cádiz was a revival of the traditional cortes (Spanish parliament), which as an institution had not functioned for many years, but it met...
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    Atlantic side of the Bay of Cádiz, and within the small, strategically located city of Cádiz itself When the Cortes convened in Cádiz in 1810, there...
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    In 1810, the Cortes of Cádiz was created, it operated as a government in exile. The Cortes Generales had to move from Seville to Cádiz to escape the...
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    Deputies meets in the Palacio de las Cortes. The Senate meets in the Palacio del Senado. Both are in Madrid. The Cortes are elected through universal, free...
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    inevitable. At the end of 1810, Ferdinand VII of Spain, captive, was recognized by the Cortes of Cádiz and by the governing juntas in the Americas as...
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    naval base of Cádiz by a French army from 5 February 1810 to 24 August 1812 during the Peninsular War. Following the occupation of Seville, Cádiz became the...
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    Viceroyalties of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. The name "Provincias del Río de la Plata" was formally adopted in 1810 during the Cortes of Cádiz to designate...
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    system of juntas was replaced by a regency and the Cortes of Cádiz, which established a permanent government under the Constitution of 1812. Cadiz was heavily...
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    convened the meeting of the "Cortes of Cádiz", operating as a government in exile. The delegates to the Cortes were to be representatives of the provinces and...
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    Ramón Power y Giralt (category Burials at the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista, Puerto Rico)
    to fight for the equal representation of Puerto Rico before the Cortes of Cádiz, the parliamentary government of Spain at the time. Power was born in San...
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    functions by Philip II of Spain and placed in Madrid in 1561. The Council of the Indies was abolished in 1812 by the Cortes of Cádiz, briefly restored in...
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  • Look up cortes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cortes, Cortés, Cortês, Corts, or Cortès may refer to: Cortes (surname), including a list of people...
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  • In the Cortes of Cádiz of 1812, within the faction of realists (as opposed to the faction of more moderate reform conservatives), a subgroup of reactionary...
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    redout of Cádiz. In Cádiz, the Supreme Central Junta dissolved itself and set up a five-person Regency to handle the affairs of state until the Cortes of Cádiz...
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    until 1778. It is also the site of the University of Cádiz. Situated on a narrow slice of land surrounded by the sea‚ Cádiz is, in most respects, a typically...
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    supported the authority in the Americas of the Supreme Central Junta of Spain and the Indies and the Cortes of Cádiz that ruled in the King's name during...
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    San Fernando and Cádiz were the only parts of Spain which did not surrender to the French. The deputies elected to the Cortes of Cádiz met in the Teatro...
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    beginning of the 19th century with the arrival of the constitutional regime. For Agustín Argüelles, an Asturian deputy in the Cortes of Cádiz, the draft of the...
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    Cádiz. The current president, of the 15th Cortes Generales (102nd since the Cortes of Cádiz), is Francina Armengol, a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers'...
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    in Cádiz — a small corner of the Iberian Peninsula still under Spanish control — as the Cortes of Cádiz, and drafted the Spanish Constitution of 1812...
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    del Río de la Plata" (formally adopted during the Cortes of Cádiz to designate the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata) alludes to the Junta Provisional...
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    Spain (redirect from Kingdom of Spain)
    ISBN 978-84-7090-366-3. Cortes of Cádiz (1812) was the first parliament of Spain with sovereign power Rodríguez. Independence of Spanish America. Cambridge...
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    General elections to the special Cortes of Cádiz were held in Spain in 1810. At stake were all 276 seats in the Cortes of Cádiz – which served as a parliamentary...
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    were quickly suppressed. In 1812 the Cortes of Cádiz divided the region into two provinces: Guatemala (consisting of Guatemala, Belize, Chiapas, Honduras...
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    Martínez y Robles families of Puebla, was dedicated to the priesthood. In 1810 he was elected deputy to the Cortes of Cádiz. Due to his liberal ideas,...
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  • capital in Cáceres. Province of Cádiz, with capital in Cádiz. Province of Calatayud, with capital in Calatayud. Province of Canary Islands, with capital...
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    and the Hispanic American territories of the Spanish Empire, during the term of the Cortes of Cádiz. The Cortes created new structures for home rule,...
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  • Reconquista (Spanish America) (category Spanish American wars of independence)
    governed by the Cortes of Cádiz – which served as a democratic Regency after Ferdinand VII was deposed. By 1815 the general outlines of which areas were...
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    with the birth of two sons. Philip V proved an effective administrator, centralizing the Spanish authority by eliminating regional cortes (parliaments)...
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    Spanish confiscation (category Modern history of Spain)
    deputies of the Cortes of Cádiz (the Spanish national assembly) recognized the huge debt accumulated in the form of vales reales during the reign of Charles...
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