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  2. Habsburg Spain - Wikipedia

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    With the conquest and settlement of the Philippines, the Spanish Empire reached its greatest extent. [18] In 1564, Miguel López de Legazpi was commissioned by the viceroy of New Spain (Mexico), Don Luís de Velasco , to lead an expedition in the Pacific Ocean to find the Spice Islands , where earlier explorers Ferdinand Magellan and Ruy López ...

  3. Spania - Wikipedia

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    The Byzantines occupied many coastal cities in Baetica and this region was to remain a Byzantine province until its reconquest by the Visigoths barely seventy years later. The Byzantine Empire at its greatest extent under Justinian I. Justinian's inherited empire in red with his conquests, including Spania, in orange. It is the westernmost ...

  4. History of Spain - Wikipedia

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    Some of Spain's greatest music is regarded as having been written in the period. Such composers as Tomás Luis de Victoria , Luis de Milán and Alonso Lobo helped to shape Renaissance music and the styles of counterpoint and polychoral music, and their influence lasted into the Baroque period .

  5. List of number-one hits (Spain) - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version ... This is a list of number-one hits in Spain by year from the chart compiled weekly by PROMUSICAE ...

  6. Spanish Empire - Wikipedia

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    At its greatest extent in the late 1700s and early 1800s, the Spanish Empire covered over 13 million square kilometres (5 million square miles), making it one of the largest empires in history. [ 3 ]

  7. Al-Andalus - Wikipedia

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    Al-Andalus (Arabic: الأَنْدَلُس, romanized: al-ʾAndalus) [a] was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.The name describes the different Muslim [1] [2] states that controlled these territories at various times between 711 and 1492.

  8. Spain floods latest: Dogs being used in search for missing ...

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    Spain's national guard on Tuesday asked relatives of people missing in deadly floods to provide DNA samples to identify bodies, as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he was earmarking 10.6 billion ...

  9. History of the Mediterranean region - Wikipedia

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    At its greatest extent, the Arab Empire controlled three-quarters of the Mediterranean coast, and fostered an economic interrelationship between the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean. [23] Much of North Africa became a peripheral area to the main Muslim centers in the Middle East, but Al Andalus and Morocco soon broke from this distant control and ...