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Ceuta Day (Spanish: Día de Ceuta), celebrated in Ceuta on 2 September, is a holiday marking the date when Pedro de Meneses, 1st Count of Vila Real), became the first Governor of Ceuta by King John I of Portugal, following the Conquest of Ceuta.
1598: Spanish settlement in Northern New Mexico. 1600: By 1600 Spain and Portugal were still the only significant colonial powers. North of Mexico the only settlements were Saint Augustine and the isolated outpost in northern New Mexico. Exploration of the interior was largely abandoned after the 1540s.
Actas Xiv Simpósio de História Marítima: Ceuta e a Expansão Portuguesa. Campos, Nuno Silva (2018). D. Pedro de Meneses e a construção da Casa de Vila Real (1415–1437). Publicações do Cidehus. Campos, Nuno Silva (2015). GUERRA E CORSO EM CEUTA DURANTE A CAPITANIA DE D. PEDRO DE MENESES (1415–1437). ACTAS XIV SIMPÓSIO DE HISTÓRIA ...
The sieges of Ceuta, also known as the thirty-year siege, [1] were a series of blockades by Moroccan forces of the Spanish-held city of Ceuta on the North African coast. The first siege began on 23 October 1694 and finished in 1720 when reinforcements arrived. [ 2 ]
Since 1995, Ceuta is, along with Melilla, one of the two autonomous cities of Spain. [45] Ceuta is known officially in Spanish as Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta (English: Autonomous City of Ceuta), with a rank between a standard municipality and an autonomous community. Ceuta is part of the territory of the European Union.
He fretted as Trump declared Feb. 9 to be Gulf of America Day, saying it was part of restoring "American pride in the history of American greatness," and as the U.S. Board on Geographic Names ...
Spanish explorers claimed land for the crown in the modern-day states of Alabama, Arizona, the Carolinas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas, and California. [43] Puerto Rico was also colonized by the Spanish during this era, occasioning the earliest contact between Africans and what would become the United States (via ...
Trump announced on Nov. 25 a plan to institute a 25% tariff on all goods imported to the U.S. from Mexico and Canada, calling it punishment for illegal immigration and the flow of drugs into the U ...