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Alhambra Valley, California, a census-designated place in Contra Costa County, California (the word alhambra is part of a phase that means to travel in time back to medieval Arab Spain) Almeria, Nebraska, an unincorporated community in Loup County, Nebraska (named after a city in Spain which was named an Arabic word meaning "the Watchtower")
Medieval Spain was as much as a network of cities as it was interconnected provinces. Cities were cultural and administrative centers, the seats of bishops and sometimes kings, with markets and housing expanding from a central fortified stronghold. Medieval Spanish history can easily be followed through these major cities:
Medieval building that have been transported to North America in modern times. The Cloisters museum, New York City, a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art housed in a complex integrating elements from several different medieval structures [3] St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church, a 12th-century cloister from Spain, reassembled in Florida [4]
First city founded by Europeans, although not continuously inhabited, in Puerto Rico. Abandoned in 1521 with the removal of the capital to San Juan. 1510 Santa Maria la Antigua del Darien: Urabá: Colombia First city founded by Europeans on the continent of South America. 1510 Nombre de Dios: Colon: Panama
Other chiefdoms were constructed throughout the Southeast, and its trade networks reached to the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. At its peak, between the 12th and 13th centuries, Cahokia was the most populous city in North America. (Larger cities did exist in Mesoamerica and the Andes.)
They massacred the Portobelo barracks in 1668 and managed to capture numerous Spanish coastal towns and fortifications. On several occasions, buccaneers forces crossed the isthmus, capturing Spanish ships, and captured weakly fortified Pacific ports in Central America, Mexico, and Peru. While the great fortresses of the Caribbean should have ...
Oldest English-founded city in North America, [7] seasonal until c. 1630 1508 Caparra: Puerto Rico: United States 1509 Sevilla la Nueva: Seville, St. Ann's Bay: Jamaica: Established by Juan de Esquivel, the first Spanish governor of Jamaica, St Ann's Bay was the third capital established by Spain in the Americas. 1510 Nombre de Dios: Colón: Panama
1531: Spanish found Puebla de Zaragoza and Santiago de Querétaro. 1535: Jacques Cartier reaches Quebec. 1536: Cabeza de Vaca reaches Mexico City after wandering through North America. 1538: Failed Huguenot settlement on St. Kitts in the Caribbean (destroyed by the Spanish). 1539: Hernando de Soto explores the interior from Florida to Arkansas.