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    The Iberian Union is a historiographical term used to describe the dynastic union of the Monarchy of Spain, which in turn was itself a dynastic union of...
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  • Look up Iberian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Iberian refers to Iberia. Most commonly Iberian refers to: Someone or something originating in the...
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    modern period. During the Age of Discovery, conquistadors sailed beyond Iberian Peninsula to the Americas, Oceania, Africa and Asia, establishing new colonies...
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    in 1580, there began a 60-year union between Spain and Portugal known to subsequent historiography as the Iberian Union, although the realms continued...
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    The Iberian Peninsula (/aɪˈbɪəriən/), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in South-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia. It is divided...
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    other lands outside the Iberian Peninsula, like in the Americas. Habsburg Spain was a composite monarchy and a personal union. The Habsburg Spanish monarchs...
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    Dynastic union between Spain (the union between the Crowns of Castile and Aragon) and Portugal (1580–1640), generally called the Iberian Union by modern...
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    Ceuta (category NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union)
    overseas empires in what is historically referred to as the Iberian Union. During the Iberian Union, 1580 to 1640, Ceuta attracted many settlers of Spanish...
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    Azores (category Outermost regions of the European Union)
    second raid failed – the Islands Voyage. Spain held the Azores under the Iberian Union from 1580 to 1642 (called the "Babylonian captivity" in the Azores)...
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    European Union, Eurozone, Schengen Area and NATO, and make up the vast majority of the Iberian Peninsula. After the Umayyad conquest of the Iberian Peninsula...
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    Portuguese administration in hands in 1580, in what was called the Iberian Union which lasted 60 years. Later, in 1640 John IV of Portugal, Duke of Braganza...
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    exception as described below). While Portugal was subsumed under the Iberian Union, rebellious Portuguese factions and government in exile sought refuge...
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    Company, the Dutch West India Company, and their allies, against the Iberian Union, and after 1640, the Portuguese Empire. Beginning in 1598, the conflict...
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    The Azores were returned to Portuguese control with the end of the Iberian Union, not by the military efforts, as these were already in Restoration War...
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  • to 1478. Iberian Union with Spain from 1580 to 1640, under Philip II (also known as Philip I of Portugal), his son and grandson. Personal union with Brazil...
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    Portugal (category Iberian Peninsula countries)
    Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the...
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    Iberism (redirect from Iberian federalism)
    as pan-Iberism or Iberian federalism, is the pan-nationalist ideology supporting a unification of all the territories of the Iberian Peninsula. It mostly...
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    the crowns of the two Iberian kingdoms, known as the Iberian Union, lasted until 1640 when the Portuguese revolted. During the union the institutions of...
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    Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis. The Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, which lasted almost two centuries, led to the establishment...
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    exotic commodities. But as a result of Portugal's incorporation in the Iberian Union with Spain by Philip II in 1580, all Portuguese territories were thereafter...
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    [fɨˈlipɨ]), who ruled Portugal between 1581 and 1640 under the Iberian Union, a dynastic union of the crowns of Spain and Portugal. The dynasty's kings were...
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    Navarre occurred in 1512. There was also a period called Iberian Union, the dynastic union of the Kingdom of Portugal and the Spanish Crown; during which...
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    The Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) is one of the four extant species within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx. It is endemic to the Iberian Peninsula...
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    so-called Iberian Union, considered by some historians as a Spanish conquest. Philip respected a certain degree of autonomy in its Iberian territories...
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    has been characterized by western scholars as a territory on a lease; a union community with Portugal enshrined in and by the Chief of State; a condominium;...
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    the integration of the country in the Iberian Union for 60 years under the Philippine Dynasty in a dynastic union with Spain. Sebastian, who would later...
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    finally received its present-day coat of arms on 19 December 1981. Iberian Union flag proposal in 1854 Flag with Osborne bull Spanish flag with the Sacred...
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  • field with the royal coat of arms in the middle. Iberian Union 1580–1640 Flag of the Iberian Union A red saltire resembling two crossed, roughly pruned...
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    Catalonia, Navarre, Portugal during the brief period known as the Iberian Union, Sardinia, Sicily, and Naples. With the ascension of the House of Bourbon...
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  • representative of the King of Portugal during the period of the Iberian Union, when a personal union existed between the monarchies of Portugal and Spain. According...
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