During the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the Spanish Main was the collective term used by English speakers for the parts of the Spanish Empire that...

The Spanish Main is a 1945 American adventure film starring Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak and Binnie Barnes, and directed by Frank Borzage...

Germany Main, Iran, a village in Fars Province Spanish Main, the Caribbean coasts of mainland Spanish territories in the 16th and 17th centuries The Main, the...

pieces from components that punch out of styrene cards. Pirates of the Spanish Main won a Vanguard Award at the 2005 Origins Awards. In November 2008, Topps...

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independence, leading to the Spanish American wars of independence that put an end to the metropole's grip over the Spanish Main. Attempts to re-assert control...

Spanish Town is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica. It was the Spanish and British...

The Saint on the Spanish Main is a collection of short stories by Leslie Charteris, first published in 1955 by The Crime Club in the United States and...

conflict with the Spanish and in 1585, the Anglo-Spanish War began. Drake was in command of an expedition to the Americas that attacked Spanish shipping and...

of the Aztec Triple Alliance and the Spanish Empire. Taking place between 1519 and 1521, this event saw the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, and his...

The Spanish treasure fleet, or West Indies Fleet (Spanish: Flota de Indias, also called silver fleet or plate fleet; from the Spanish: plata meaning "silver")...

English repelled the Spanish Armada in 1588, while Spain repelled the English Armada. The 2nd Spanish Armada in 1596 and the 3rd Spanish Armada in 1597 likewise...

was a merger of the Spanish Communist Party (Spanish: Partido Comunista Español) and the Spanish Communist Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido Comunista Obrero...

and strongest on the Spanish Main [citation needed], and on one of the main routes of trade between the Spanish territories and Spain. Because of the value...

II. In this period the Spanish Empire was at the zenith of its influence and power. Spain, or "the Spains", referring to Spanish territories across different...

they became strong enough to sail for the mainland of Spanish America, known as the Spanish Main, and sacked cities. Perhaps what distinguished the buccaneers...

Caribbean States, African Union, among others. In Spain and some other parts of the Spanish-speaking world, Spanish is called not only español but also castellano...

of the most important Spanish authors, this is the world's largest organization for promoting the study and teaching of Spanish language and culture....

for Spanish resources in Europe accelerated the decay of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. The settlements of the Spanish Main and the Spanish West...

France, merging the Anglo-Spanish war with the larger Franco-Spanish War, with major land actions that took place in the Spanish Netherlands. Although the...

Tortuga were the Spanish in 1492 during the first voyage of Christopher Columbus into the New World. On December 6, 1492, three Spanish ships entered the...

Mainland Spain as opposed to the Balearic and Canary Islands and other lands under Spanish sovereignty; cf. the colonial-era term peninsulares the main island...

Main–Spanish Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located around Main and Spanish Streets in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The district...

The Spanish West Indies, Spanish Caribbean or the Spanish Antilles (also known as "Las Antillas Occidentales" or simply "Las Antillas Españolas" in Spanish)...

The Anglo-Spanish War (Spanish: Guerra Anglo-Española) was a military conflict fought between Britain and Spain as part of the Seven Years' War. It lasted...

named it Insula Hispana in Latin and La Isla Española in Spanish, both meaning "the Spanish island". Las Casas shortened the name to Española, and when...

or Galiza [ɡaˈliθɐ] ; Spanish: Galicia [ɡaˈliθja]) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law. Located in the northwest...

— official website. (in Spanish) National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) — official website. (in Spanish) Main Cities to Visit in Mexico...

From the northwest to the southeast, the main islands are: Virgin Islands Spanish Virgin Islands Spanish (Puerto Rican) Islands (Puerto Rico) (United...

in the Americas. Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493, but these permanent settlements in the Caribbean and Spanish Main were marginal to...