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A Spanish expedition led by Alonso de Ojeda, while sailing along the length of the northern coast of South America in 1499, gave the name Venezuela ("little Venice" in Spanish) to the Gulf of Venezuela, because of its imagined similarity to the famed Italian city. Spain's colonization of mainland Venezuela started in 1522.
As a former part of the Spanish Empire in the Americas and a major destination of Spanish emigration up until the second half of the 20th century, Venezuela shares strong ties with Spain. After Hugo Chávez came to power following the 1998 Venezuelan presidential election many upper-class Venezuelans decided to leave the country, a movement ...
The BBC and The Guardian reported that Peru was the first country to recognize González as Venezuela's president-elect, on 30 July [28] [29] —a statement from the former Peruvian foreign minister that was corrected on 5 September by Peru's Council of Ministers after a new foreign minister was named. [30]
Spain's capital and largest city is Madrid, and other major urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Zaragoza, Málaga, Murcia and Palma de Mallorca. In early antiquity, the Iberian Peninsula was inhabited by Celts, Iberians, and other pre-Roman peoples. With the Roman conquest of the Iberian peninsula, the province of Hispania was ...
Spanish Immigration to Venezuela began around 1500, when the Spanish first landed on and conquered the territory, and immigration continues to the present day. There are many Venezuelans of Spanish origin, especially from the Canary Islands (known as Isleños ).
He accused the King of displaying the kind of Spanish arrogance that led to Spain's ejection from South America at the hands of Venezuela's hero, Simón Bolívar. [9] Spanish diplomats were concerned that Chávez would replace his socialism and attacks on "American imperialism" with attacks on what he called "Spanish imperialism". [10]
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See also: Spanish Uruguayan and Uruguayans in Spain. Venezuela: 30 March 1845 [55] See Spain–Venezuela relations. Venezuela has an embassy in Madrid [183] and consulates-general in Barcelona, [184] Bilbao, [185] Santa Cruz de Tenerife, [186] and Vigo. [187] Spain has an embassy in Caracas. [188] See also: Spanish Venezuelan and Venezuelans in ...