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The "Ilustrados", pictured here in 1890, formed the first significant community of Hispanic Filipinos in Spain.The first Filipino settlements in Spain goes back to the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines between the 16th and 19th century, although most migration from the Philippines to Spain during this period was to the territories of New Spain, where some 3,600 Asians, mostly ...
Spain and the Philippines share a common history in the fact that the Philippines was part of the Spanish Empire for three hundred years and was the sole Spanish colony in Asia. Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan first encountered the Philippines and named the islands after King Philip II of Spain. [3]
Spain owned several Pacific islands as part of the Spanish East Indies.After its defeat in the Spanish–American War of 1898, it lost the Philippines. The German–Spanish Treaty (1899) sold the Carolinas, Marianas and Palau to the German Empire.
Bolivian people of European ancestry are predominantly descended from the people who emigrated from Spain beginning five hundred years ago. [10] In the official census in 1900, people who self-identified as "Blanco" (white) composed 12.72% or 231,088 people in the total population. This was the last time data on race was collected.
Spaniards, [a] or Spanish people, are a people native to Spain.Within Spain, there are a number of national and regional ethnic identities that reflect the country's complex history, including a number of different languages, both indigenous and local linguistic descendants of the Roman-imposed Latin language, of which Spanish is the largest and the only one that is official throughout the ...
The expedition discovered the Mariana Islands and the Philippines and claimed them for Spain. Although Magellan was killed by natives commanded by Lapulapu during the battle of Mactan in the Philippines, one of his ships, the Victoria, made it back to Spain by continuing westward.
This is a list of famous Balearic people (people from the Balearic Islands, one of the Autonomous Communities of Spain). Álex Abrines (born 1993), basketball player; Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda (1862–1932), linguist and folk tale writer; Simón Andreu (born 1941), actor; Miquel Barceló (born 1957), painter
The Catalan Countries (Catalan: Països Catalans, Eastern Catalan: [pəˈizus kətəˈlans]) are those territories where the Catalan language is spoken. [1] [2] They include the Spanish regions of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Valencian Community, and parts of Aragon and Murcia (), [3] as well as the Principality of Andorra, the department of Pyrénées-Orientales (aka Northern Catalonia ...