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1 day ago · Isabella I (Spanish: Isabel I; 22 April 1451 – 26 November 1504), also called Isabella the Catholic (Spanish: Isabel la Católica), was Queen of Castile and León from 1474 until her death in 1504. She was also Queen of Aragon from 1479 until her death as the wife of King Ferdinand II.Reigning together over a dynastically unified Spain, Isabella and Ferdinand are known as the Catholic Monarchs.
4 days ago · The Catholic kings They were Isabel I of Castile and Ferdinand II of AragonThey married in 1469 and, ... Christopher Columbus stopped off in Gran Canaria, and then set sail from the island of La Gomera on the voyage that took him to America in 1492.
2 days ago · Although the Christians remained on the defensive in the face of Almohad power, Alfonso VIII of Castile (1158–1214) and Alfonso II of Aragon concluded a treaty in 1179 apportioning their expected conquest of Islamic Spain between them. Castile retained the right of reconquest to Andalusia and Murcia (Mursīyah), while Aragon ...
5 days ago · The conquest of Granada allowed Castile, for the first time, to concentrate major resources and effort on overseas exploration. The support that Christopher Columbus received from Isabella was indicative of this new policy.
4 days ago · Christopher Castile. Malheureusement, Castile a mis fin à sa carrière à la télévision et au cinéma après la fin de 'Step by Step'. Aujourd'hui, Christopher Castile a la quarantaine et travaille comme professeur de sciences politiques à l'université de Biola en Californie.
3 days ago · Charles’s story began on February 24, 1500, at the Prinsenhof Palace in Ghent when he was born as the son of Philip the Fair, ruler of the Habsburg Netherlands and Joanna of Castile, daughter of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon.
2 days ago · Alfonso, angry at the mistreatment his daughter Maria was suffering at the hands of her husband, the king of Castile, had ordered an attack. St. Elizabeth stopped the fighting, but the exertion proved to be too much for her and she fell ill, dying shortly thereafter.
5 days ago · In the 1630s new taxes were instituted in Castile along with outright confiscations from private individuals, both of income from government annuities and of American silver imported in commercial transactions.
4 days ago · Six days. Five overnight stays in five cities in Spain. Lunch in Paris.Stopover in Barcelona.Then Córdoba, Seville, Granada and Málaga.An Andalusia Whirlwind Tour where we visit the Mezquita and the Alhambra.We’re touring Andalusia in October 2023 to follow the trend of travelling to hot spots outside summer, as we did with Italy in 2022.. King Alfonso XIII of Spain.
2 days ago · The two main candidates were the Austrian Habsburg Archduke Charles, and 16-year-old Philip of Anjou, grandson of Maria Theresa of Spain and Louis XIV of France. Acquisition of the Spanish Empire by either potentially threatened to alter the European balance of power in favour of France or Austria.
