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A plaque showing the locations of a third of the missions between 1565 and 1763. Beginning in the second half of the 16th century, the Kingdom of Spain established a number of missions throughout La Florida in order to convert the Native Americans to Roman Catholicism, to facilitate control of the area, and to obstruct regional colonization by other Protestants, particularly, those from ...
Spanish Cultural Institute located on 2801 16th Street, Washington, D.C. The Embassy of Spain in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the Kingdom of Spain to the United States It is located at 2375 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, in the West End neighborhood. Spain did not establish diplomatic relations with the United States until 1790, [1 ...
Antarctica. This is a list of diplomatic missions in the United States. At present, 178 nations maintain diplomatic missions to the United States in the capital, Washington, D.C. Being the seat of the Organization of American States, the city also hosts missions of its member-states, separate from their respective embassies to the United States.
This is a list of diplomatic missions of Spain, excluding honorary consulates. The kingdom of Spain has a large global diplomatic presence. Kingdom of Spain. Countries that host Spanish embassies. Countries that host only Spanish embassy branch offices, and missions that serve as de facto embassies.
Marta Esther Rocafort y Altuzarra, later hyphenated Rocafort-Altuzarra (18 September 1913 – 4 February 1993) was the second wife of the Count of Covadonga (previously known as Alfonso, Prince of Asturias ). Rocafort, a fashion model, was the eldest daughter of Blas Manuel Rocafort y González, a prominent Cuban dentist, and wife Rogelia ...
The removal of this security detail caused hundreds of Cubans to swarm the embassy in hopes of leaving Cuba. In response to this, Castro opened up the port of El Mariel, and between the months of April and September 1980 125,000 Cubans left for Florida. Most of the Cubans in Florida reside in Miami.
Spain provided indirect support to the new United States by fighting against Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. Madrid tacitly recognised the independence of the United States in 1783. The purchase of the underdeveloped Spanish Florida by the US was made effective in 1821.
The law offers Spanish citizenship to the children of Spanish exiles who had fled from the Franco regime. The 2007 Historical Memory Law had excluded children of exiles who had changed or renounced their Spanish citizenship; the new law entitles any descendant of Spanish immigrants born before 1985 – the year Spain changed its nationality law ...