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The Treaty of Zaragoza laid down that the eastern border between the two domain zones was 297 + 1 ⁄ 2 leagues (1,763 kilometres, 952 nautical miles) [note 4], or 17° east, of the Maluku Islands. [11] This left the islands within the Portuguese domain. In exchange, the King of Portugal paid Emperor Charles V 350,000 gold ducats. The treaty ...
On 30 October 2011, actor Jesús Pescador intervened in the Plenary Session of the Zaragoza City Council in the name of the committee to Promote Canto a la Libertad as "Anthem of Aragon", supporting a motion presented to the council in order to get it to support the proposal and also to "find a place for Canto a la Libertad in the Fiestas del ...
Frontier and feudal conquest in the Ebro valley from a local perspective (Tauste, Zaragoza, 1086-1200). Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca. pp. 115– 138. ISSN 0213-2060. Stalls (1995). Possessing the Land: Aragon's Expansion Into Islam's Ebro Frontier Under Alfonso the Battler, 1104-1134. Leiden, New York and Cologne: The Medieval Mediterranean.
Detail of the Cantiga #63 (13th century), which deals with a late 10th-century battle in San Esteban de Gormaz involving the troops of Count García and Almanzor. [1]The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for ' reconquest ') [a] or the reconquest of al-Andalus [b] was a series of military and cultural campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the ...
Following the capitulation of Zaragoza the previous February, and Suchet's defeat of Blake's troops at Belchite in June, the French commander could only count on control of the towns of Zaragoza and Jaca since the rest of Aragón, apart from plain of the Ebro, which forms the central area of Aragon, was mountainous terrain suited to guerrilla ...
In music theory, the recapitulation is one of the sections of a movement written in sonata form. The recapitulation occurs after the movement's development section, and typically presents once more the musical themes from the movement's exposition .
It depicts a scene during the 1808 Siege of Zaragoza at the time of the Peninsular War. [ 2 ] Wilkie, a London-based Scottish painter, had recently travelled through Spain and this was one of a series of four works he produced featuring scenes of Spanish resistance to the French occupiers in the Peninsular War.
Vedel carried new orders from Madrid and Bayonne: Dupont was instructed to stop his march on Cádiz and fall back north-eastwards on the mountains (a fait accompli), watching the Spanish movements in Andalusia while awaiting the reinforcements to be released upon the capitulation of Zaragoza and Valencia. [28] These capitulations never came.