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Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty of Tordesillas , 1494, agreement signed at Tordesillas, Spain, by which Spain and Portugal divided the non-Christian world into two zones of influence. In principle the treaty followed the papal bull issued in 1493 by Pope Alexander VI, which fixed the demarcation line along a circle passing ... Read more
Joanna
Joanna (Joanna the Mad), 1479-1555, Spanish queen of Castile and León (1504-55), daughter of Ferdinand II and Isabella I. She succeeded to Castile and León at the death of her mother. Ferdinand II briefly assumed the regency until he was replaced by Joanna's ambitious husband, Philip... Read more
John II
John II (John the Perfect), 1455-95, king of Portugal (1481-95), son and successor of Alfonso V. He was an astute politician and statesman and a patron of Renaissance art and learning. He reduced the power of the feudal nobility and had his chief opponent, the duke of Braganza , executed for treas... Read more
Ferdinand II
Ferdinand II or Ferdinand the Catholic, 1452-1516, king of Aragón (1479-1516), king of Castile and León (as Ferdinand V, 1474-1504), king of Sicily (1468-1516), and king of Naples (1504-16). His father, John II of Aragón, gave him Sicily during his lifetime and left him Ara... Read more
Alexander VI
Alexander VI 1431?-1503, pope (1492-1503), a Spaniard (b. Játiva) named Rodrigo de Borja or, in Italian, Rodrigo Borgia; successor of Innocent VIII. He took Borja as his surname from his mother's brother Alfonso, who was Pope Calixtus III. Rodrigo became cardinal (1456), vice chancellor of t... Read more
Pedro Alvares Cabral
Pedro Alvares Cabral , c.1467-c.1520, Portuguese navigator. A friend of Vasco da Gama, in 1500 he was sent out by Manuel I as head of a fleet destined for India. Bartolomeu Dias was one of his officers. Cabral went far west of his course and reached the coast of Brazil, which he claimed for Portug... Read more
South America
South America fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. It is divided politically into 12 independent countries— Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Chile , Colombia , Ecuador , G... Read more
Portugal
Portugal , officially Portuguese Republic, republic (2005 est. pop. 10,566,000), 35,553 sq mi (92,082 sq km), SW Europe, on the western side of the Iberian Peninsula and including the Madeira Islands and the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean. Portugal is bordered by Spain on the east and north and by... Read more
Brazil
Brazil , Port. Brasil, officially Federative Republic of Brazil, republic (2005 est. pop. 186,113,000), 3,286,470 sq mi (8,511,965 sq km), E South America. By far the largest of the Latin American countries, Brazil occupies nearly half the continent of South America, stretching from the Guiana Hig... Read more
Spain
Spain Span. España , officially Kingdom of Spain, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 40,341,000), 194,884 sq mi (504,750 sq km), including the Balearic and Canary islands, SW Europe. It consists of the Spanish mainland (190,190 sq mi/492,592 sq km), which occupies the major part of the... Read more

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Tordesillas, Treaty of
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History TORDESILLAS, TREATY OF After early New World colonization...and Portuguese ambassadors meeting at Tordesillas in northwestern Spain moved the line...islands or the west. The Treaty of Tordesillas was later validated by Pope Julius II...
Treaty of Tordesillas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Treaty of Tordesillas , 1494, agreement signed at Tordesillas, Spain, by which Spain and Portugal divided the non...Africa and India to Portugal. However, the Treaty of Tordesillas shifted the demarcation line to a circle passing 370...
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas , 1559?-1625, Spanish historian. Appointed official historiographer of Castile and the Indies under Philip II, he wrote a...
Ferdinand II
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Christopher Columbus , sailing under their auspices, discovered the New World, and in 1494, by the Treaty of Tordesillas (see Tordesillas, Treaty of ), Spain and Portugal divided the non-Christian world between them. Ferdinand personally was...
Joanna I, "the Mad" (Spain) (1479–1555)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...By 1509 Ferdinand had "exiled" his daughter to Tordesillas, where she lived until her death in 1555. Some recent...ndez Alvarez, Manuel. Juana la Loca: La cautiva de Tordesillas. Madrid, 2000. Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt
Sub-Saharan Africa
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...west African trade routes, a policy that was further elaborated in the papal treaties of Alca ç ovas (1479) and Tordesillas (1494). In 1498 the Portuguese Captain Vasco da Gama (c. 1460 – 1524) reached India after Swahili navigators...
Cartography and Geography
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...meridian at the Canary Islands — by which the Spanish and Portuguese divided the New World at the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas. (In Ptolemaic maps the Indian Ocean had been depicted as landlocked.) Spanish cosmographers helped resolve the disputes...
Comuneros Revolt (1520–1521)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...their actions by gaining the support of Charles's mother, the mentally unstable Queen Joanna, confined in the town of Tordesillas. The comuneros gained control of the town and the queen, but she refused to sign any documents for them. With this threat...
Ferdinand of Aragón (1452–1516)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...divide the territories in the Americas between Portugal and Castile along a line of demarcation (ratified by the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494). He ushered in modern diplomacy by establishing permanent embassies in Rome, Venice, London, Brussels, and...
Iberian Peninsula: Portugal
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture ...against the Moors, although the south remained under Moorish rule until 1250. Spain and Portugal signed the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, under papal auspices, dividing the New Worlds between them. The Spanish claimed the Americas, while the Portuguese acquired...

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Tordesillas, Treaty of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Tordesillas, Treaty of (7 June 1494) An alliance between Spain and Portugal...disregarded by other nations. Portuguese dissatisfaction led to a meeting at Tordesillas in north-west Spain where it was agreed to move the papal line to...
Brazil
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...American country originally established as a Portuguese colony, having been awarded to the Portuguese crown by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494). Settlement began in 1532 with the foundation of São Vicente by Martim Afonso de SOUSA . During the first...
Joanna the Mad
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...and the wife of PHILIP IV of Burgundy. After Philip's death in 1506 she became insane. In 1509 she retired to Tordesillas, accompanied by Philip's embalmed corpse. Her sons later became the emperors CHARLES V and Ferdinand I.
John II
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...in 1483, and crushed a conspiracy led by his brother-in-law in 1484. He sponsored African and American exploration, and negotiated the Treaty of TORDESILLAS , which divided the lands of the New World between Spain and Portugal.
Religion and the State: Latin America
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...monopolies in terms of bringing Christianity to the heathens. The monarchs codified this rationalization in the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas that divided the non-European world between them for commerce, colonization, and religious conversion. Pope Alexander...

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'Moteros' de toda Europa convierten Tordesillas en una fiesta sobre ruedas. (España)(TT: 'Motorcycle riders' from all over Europe converge on Tordesillas for a celebration on wheels) (TA: Spain)
Magazine article from: Tribuna de Actualidad; 1/27/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...ao ms su fiesta, su encuentro, en Tordesillas (Valladolid). La primera concentracin...europeos, como Alemania, llegan a Tordesillas (Valladolid) con los fros del invierno...miles de curiosos que se arremolinan en Tordesillas es el tradicional desfile de antorchas...
LA GRAN concentración.(rally de motociclismo, Tordesillas, España)(TT: The great concentration.)(TA: motorcycle rally, Tordesillas, Spain)
Magazine article from: Tribuna de Actualidad; 1/31/2000; 514 words ; ...de motoristas, que se celebra cada ao en Tordesillas. El vallisoletano pueblo de Tordesillas vivi un ao ms -y ya van 19- la gran fiesta...llegaron a la concentracin desde ms lejos. En Tordesillas, poblacin de 7.000 habitantes, estn...
Portuguese banking: Tordesillas revisited.(Banco Santander Central Hispano of Spain will be allowed to acquire two Portuguese banks controlled by Antonio Champalimaud's Mundial Confianca)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 11/20/1999; 700+ words ; AFTER five months, one of the bitterest battles in Europe's banking market may be over. On November 15th, Portugal's finance minister, Joaquim Pina Moura, unveiled a complex deal under which Spain's Banco Santander Central Hispano (BSCH) will take over two banks within Mundial Confianca (MC), a
There: Philippines
Magazine article from: Filipinas; 11/30/2001; 700+ words ; ...transformed into animation. Ellen Tordesillas: Politicians Beware Award-winning and veteran journalist Ellen Tordesillas is known as the journalist who first...column in Malaya, a Manila daily. Tordesillas has put together the data she had...
In Manila, scandal becomes way of lifeFilipinos fault Arroyo for her response
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 7/2/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...ordinary Filipino,'' said Ellen Tordesillas, a political analyst who, as...offensive to Filipino Catholics, Tordesillas said.''People have difficulty...her and warming up to her,'' Tordesillas said, echoing an observation...
Journalists seek TRO extension against govt
Newspaper article from: The Manila Times; 2/1/2008; 700+ words ; ...during emergency situations. Ellen Tordesillas, columnist and chief of reporters of...job. It's really frightening," Tordesillas said in her testimony, referring to...before being released hours later. Tordesillas also complained that she became "stressful...
LINES OF DIVISION, LINES OF CONNECTION: STEWARDSHIP IN THE WORLD OCEAN.
Magazine article from: The Geographical Review; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...ocean space, stewardship, Treaty of Tordesillas. Historians of marine governance frequently...1493 Papal Bull, the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, John Selden's 1635 Of the Dominion...1493 Papal Bull and the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas. These documents affirm a norm of marine...
Juana the Mad: Sovereignty and Dynasty in Renaissance Europe.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...confined in a palace in the town of Tordesillas, in central Castile, for almost fifty...Alvarez, Juana la Loca: La Cautiva de Tordesillas (1994). A century of historical attention...the world during the long decades in Tordesillas. At the same time, the author seeks...
Formal and informal empire in the history of Portuguese expansion.
Magazine article from: Portuguese Studies; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...the treaties of Alcacovas in 1479 and Tordesillas of 1494? Precisely what was conferred...over the seas. Following the Treaty of Tordesillas and the establishment of the Estado...seas of half the world granted by the Tordesillas treaty. Then there were the claims...
Makati sets alternate routes for Friday parade.
News Wire article from: Philippines News Agency; 5/9/2008; 700+ words ; ...Pasay: take Gil Puyat Avenue, left Tordesillas, take Zuellig Loop.-- Jeepneys from...Pasay: take Gil Puyat Avenue, left Tordesillas, take Zuellig loop. -- From Ayala...take Gil Puyat Avenue, right turn Tordesillas Street. From EDSA/Ayala Avenue to...