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The crown established New Spain as a viceroyalty in 1535, appointing as viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, an aristocrat loyal to the monarch rather than the conqueror Cortés. New Spain was the first of the viceroyalties that Spain created, the second being Peru in 1542, following the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Both New Spain and Peru had ...
Northern New Spain: A Research Guide (1981) by Thomas C. Barnes, Thomas H. Naylor, and Charles W. Polzer, p. 94. (in Spanish) List of viceroys and other colonial rulers at the Mexican government site (in Spanish) Cronología de los Gobernantes de México 1325–2000 (Powerpoint) (in Spanish) List of Spanish colonial officials before the viceroyalty
The viceroyalty (Spanish: virreinato) was a local, political, social, and administrative institution, created by the Spanish monarchy in the sixteenth century, for ruling its overseas territories. [ 1 ]
The Viceroyalty of Peru (Spanish: Virreinato del Perú), officially known as the Kingdom of Peru (Spanish: Reino del Perú), was a Spanish imperial provincial administrative district, created in 1542, that originally contained modern-day Peru and most of the Spanish Empire in South America, governed from the capital of Lima.
Map of Spanish America c. 1800, showing the 4 viceroyalties (New Spain, pink), (New Granada, green), (Peru, orange), (Río de la Plata, blue) and provincial divisions During the early era and under the Habsburgs, the crown established a regional layer of colonial jurisdiction in the institution of Corregimiento , which was between the Audiencia ...
English: Anachronistic map of New Spain, built from Image:New_Spain.png by myself and released on multi-licence (GFDL and CC-BY 2.5). This image includes the territory of Louisiana, annexed to the Spanish Empire in 1763 after the Seven Years' War, but then given back to France in 1801. The areas in light green were territories claimed by Spain.
Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (6 C, 33 P, 2 F) Pages in category "Viceroyalties of the Spanish Empire" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Pages in category "Spanish viceroys" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... Spanish viceroyalty * List of viceroys of New Granada; List of ...