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San Miguel de Gualdape (sometimes San Miguel de Guadalupe) was a short-lived Spanish colony founded in 1526 by Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón.It was established somewhere on the coast of present-day Georgetown, South Carolina, but the exact location has been the subject of a long-running scholarly dispute.
Much of what is now the Southern United States was claimed by Spain, some of it at least explored by the Spanish starting in the early 1500s, and some permanent settlements established. Spanish explorers claimed land for the crown in the modern-day states of Alabama, Arizona, the Carolinas , Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, New Mexico ...
A service in a Spanish synagogue, from the Sister Haggadah (c. 1350). The Alhambra Decree would bring Spanish Jewish life to a sudden end. The Alhambra Decree (also known as the Edict of Expulsion; Spanish: Decreto de la Alhambra, Edicto de Granada) was an edict issued on 31 March 1492, by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon) ordering the ...
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The Charlesfort-Santa Elena Site is an important early colonial archaeological site on Parris Island, South Carolina, United States.It contains the archaeological remains of a French settlement called Charlesfort, settled in 1562 and abandoned the following year, and the later 16th-century Spanish settlement known as Santa Elena.
Fort San Juan was the first European settlement in North Carolina and the interior of present-day United States, predating the earliest English settlement at Roanoke Island, North Carolina by 18 years. [3] In 1568, natives from Joara and the region surrounding the fort razed this and the five other Spanish forts, killing all but one of the ...
Forced conversions of Muslims in Spain (1500–1502 in Castile, 1515–16 in Navarre and 1523–1526 in Aragon) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Expulsion from Spain .
Black women are major drivers of the Democratic electorate, particularly in South Carolina. Christale Spain, a longtime party operative, was The post Spain is 1st Black woman to lead South ...