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flota

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | 220 words | Copyright

flota, the name given to the annual convoys of treasure ships which brought treasure from Spanish colonies in Central and South America, and the Caribbean, to Spain during the 16th and 17th centuries.

See also galizabra.

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