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The Spanish Empire had reached approximately 12.2 million square kilometers (4.7 million square miles) in area 1668: The Treaty of Lisbon was signed. Spain recognized the sovereignty of Portugal's new ruling dynasty, the House of Braganza. 1675: Charles II of Spain, the last Habsburg ruler of the Spanish Empire, was crowned. 1700: 1 November
Hence, while the relatively recent discovery of the Jarchas challenges pride of chronological place that belonged for so long to the Poema del Cid (El Cantar de mío Cid) (1140 CE) in the history of Spanish literature, they cannot be seen as a precursor to Spain's great epic poem. What the discovery of the jarchas makes clear instead is that ...
The Book: A Global History. Oxford University Press. pp. 406– 419. ISBN 978-0-19-967941-6. Benito Rial Costas, ed. (2013). Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe: A Contribution to the History of Printing and the Book Trade in Small European and Spanish Cities. Brill. ISBN 9789004235748. Antonio Cordón-García José; et al. (2014).
An important fact is the heterogeneity of the population, a fact that dates from the year 711 when part of the peninsula was conquered by the Muslims, whose last governors were expelled from the last of their possessions in 1492 during the Reconquista. Later, the period was characterized by its vitality and renovation.
ChronoZoom is a timeline for Big History being developed for the International Big History Association by Microsoft Research and University of California, Berkeley Asian Studies online: a timeline of major developments
In ictu oculi ("In the blink of an eye"), a vanitas by Juan de Valdés Leal Façade of the Monastery of El Escorial. The Spanish Golden Age (Spanish: Siglo de Oro Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsiɣlo ðe ˈoɾo], "Golden Century") (1492 - 1700) [1] was a period that coincided with the political rise of the Spanish Empire under the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and the Spanish Habsburgs.
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Five Centuries of Spanish Literature: From the Cid through the Golden Age is a popular textbook providing a selection of Spanish literature from the 12th through 17th centuries. First published in 1962. [citation needed] The book is currently [when?] published by Waveland Press Inc.