Tordesillas
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Tordesillas is a town and municipality in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, central Spain. It is located 25 kilometres southwest of the provincial capital, Valladolid at an elevation of 70
Southern Tordesillas in September 2012.
Juana the Mad imprisoned in Tordesillas with her daughter, the infanta Catalina by Francisco Pradilla Ortiz (Museo del Prado, 1906)
Real Monasterio de Santa Clara de Tordesillas
Plaza Mayor with colonnades.
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
Tordesillas
…supported the monarchy, and again during the clashes between the Catholic Monarchs and Joanna la Beltraneja in 1476. The Catholic Monarchs signed the Treaty of Tordesillas with the Portuguese crown in 1494, which established the line dividing the globe between Spain and Portugal for colonization purposes. This affected…
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