Throughout the 19th century Spain made treaties of peace and recognition with each of the states established from its former colonies in Spanish America. The process...

agreed to appoint a liaison officer to Kosovo. In March 2013, Dačić said that while his government would never recognise Kosovo's independence, "the Serbian...

attracted many Spanish settlers; as a result, when Portugal regained its independence from Spain in 1640 Ceuta opted to remain with Spain, a situation Portugal...

at the same time. Two treaties were signed to end the war in the Empire: the Treaty of Münster and the Treaty of Osnabrück. These treaties ended the Thirty...

by the treaties. When the Spanish Empire fell, Guatemala said that it inherited Spain's sovereign rights over the territory. Since independence Guatemala...

Russia, creating an independent Kingdom of Greece Treaty of London (1839), which recognised the independence and neutrality of Belgium Convention of London...

Ossetia recognise each other, and also have some recognition from non-UN member states. South Ossetia declared independence from Georgia during the 1991–1992...

alongside Simon Bolivar in the Spanish-American Wars of Independence. José María Melo led the Republic of New Granada during the Colombian Civil War of 1854...

The Peace of Paris of 1783 was the set of treaties that ended the American Revolutionary War. On 3 September 1783, representatives of King George III of...

The Peace of Ryswick, or Rijswijk, was a series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Rijswijk between 20 September and 30 October 1697. They ended...

criminals, agree to Kaiser Wilhelm being put on trial, recognise the independence of states whose territory had previously been part of the German Empire...

December 23, 1826, the U.S. signed a treaty with the Kingdom of Hawaii thus indirectly recognizing Hawaiian independence. Office of the Historian, Foreign...

In the Caribbean Sea, English sailors defied Spanish trade restrictions and preyed on Spanish treasure ships. The English colonization of America had...

In the Treaty of Aranjuez (French: Traité d'Aranjuez; Spanish: Tratado de Aranjuez; 12 April 1779), Spain agreed to support France in its war with Britain...

The Svalbard Treaty (originally the Spitsbergen Treaty) recognises the sovereignty of Norway over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, at the time called...

The United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (Spanish: Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata), earlier known as the United Provinces of South America (Spanish:...

The Treaty of Amiens (French: la paix d'Amiens, lit. 'the peace of Amiens') temporarily ended hostilities between France, the Spanish Empire, and the...

Most of the Latin American colonies free themselves from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires after the Latin American wars of independence. 1810s–1820s: Punjab...

declaration of independence from Spain in 1898. The declaration was not recognised by the United States which, after defeating the Spanish in the Battle of...

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, as Spain by concluding the Treaty, formally recognised the independence of the Republic. In Spain the truce was seen as a major...

The Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis in April 1559 ended the Italian Wars (1494–1559). It consisted of two separate treaties, one between England and France...

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are party to the EU's founding treaties, and thereby subject to the...

Britain's role in the Spanish American wars of independence combines the military, political and diplomatic routes adopted by them, as well as its merchants...

of the People's Republic of China. Philippine revolutionaries unilaterraly declared independence from Spain in 1898, during the Spanish–American War...

retain the pre-war central government), with their independence days. Some countries did not gain their independence on a single date, therefore the latest...

in the decades after independence, the concept of the "Spanish borderlands" in the American Southwest was developed by American historians in the 20th...

of treaties contains known agreements, pacts, peaces, and major contracts between states, armies, governments, and tribal groups. Central American Free...

The treaty imposed a number of territorial losses on Turkey and had a number of provisions that applied to the territory recognised as belonging to Turkey...

declared independence and sought diplomatic recognition from the international community as sovereign states, but have not been universally recognised as such...

Territories are recognised by Article 198 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union which allows them to opt into EU provisions on the freedom of...