Inter caetera
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Inter caetera was a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI on 4 May 1493, which granted to the Catholic Monarchs King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile all lands to the "west and
The Cantino planisphere of 1502 shows the line of the Treaty of Tordesillas.
Treaty of Tordesillas
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The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in Tordesillas, Spain, on 7 June 1494, and ratified in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Cr
Inter caetera
…Verde". Diffie notes that it has been suggested that this change may have been prompted by the Portuguese ambassador. The Inter caetera and the following Treaty of Tordesillas defined and delineated a zone of Spanish rights exclusive of Portugal. In relation to other states the agreement was legally ineffective (res inter…
Front page of the Portuguese-owned treaty; this page is written in Spanish
The convent in Setúbal, where the Portuguese king John II ratified the treaty in 1494.
Various Spanish and Portuguese reckonings of the Tordesillas line (1495–1545) marked along the Brazilian coast, from Harrisse