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4 days ago · The Kingdom of Castile (/ k æ ˈ s t iː l /; Spanish: Reino de Castilla: Latin: Regnum Castellae) was a polity in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. It traces its origins to the 9th-century County of Castile (Spanish: Condado de Castilla, Latin: Comitatus Castellæ), as an eastern frontier lordship of the Kingdom of Asturias.
1 day ago · In October 1492, a group of Europeans, mostly originating in the southern part of the Spanish kingdom of Castile and led by an Italian, Christopher Columbus, arrived in the Caribbean. They found themselves among peoples previously unknown to them who lived in and moved around an archipelago of islands that formed a crescent some 2,000 miles long.
1 day ago · Following the voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492 and first major settlement in the New World in 1493, Portugal and Castile divided the world by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), which gave Portugal Africa and Asia, and the Western Hemisphere to Spain.
1 day ago · Lines dividing the non-Christian world between Castile and Portugal: the 1494 Tordesillas meridian (purple) and the 1529 Zaragoza antimeridian (green) The Treaty of Tordesillas was intended to solve the dispute that arose following the return of Christopher Columbus and his crew, who had sailed under the Crown of Castile.
3 days ago · Statistic 15. Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in medieval Europe, known for her political influence. Statistic 16. King Alfonso X of Castile was a patron of the arts and sciences, overseeing the translation of numerous works into Spanish during his reign. Statistic 17.
4 days ago · Simon Fujiwara, It’s a Small World (Memorial), 2021.Photo by Jörg von Bruchhausen. Fujiwara was born in England in 1982 to a British mother and a Japanese father, and spent his childhood in Japan, England, Spain, and Africa. He gained a bachelor’s degree in architecture at Cambridge before earning an MFA in 2008 from the exclusive Städelschule, an art school that only accepts
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 claimed Valencia.
