TORDESILLAS, TREATY OF

tōrˌthāsēˈlyäs, 1494, agreement signed at Tordesillas, Spain, by which Spain and Portugal divided the non-Christian world into two zones of influence. In principle the treaty followed the papal bull issued in 1493 by Pope Alexander VI, which fixed the demarcation line along a circle passing 100 leagues W of the Cape Verde Islands and through the two poles. This division gave the entire New World to Spain and Africa and India to Portugal. However, the Treaty of Tordesillas shifted the demarcation line to a circle passing 370 leagues W of the Cape Verde Islands and thus gave Portugal a claim to Brazil. There was little geographic knowledge at the time the treaty was signed, and it remains controversial whether the Portuguese then knew of the existence of Brazil.

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books on: Tordesillas Treaty Of  - 448 results

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The Law of the Sea: An Historical Analysis of the 1982 Treaty and Its Rejection by the United States
Book by James B. Morell; McFarland, 1992
Subjects: Marine Mineral Resources--Law And Legislation, Maritime Law, Ocean Bottom--Law And Legislation, United Nations Conference On The Law Of The Sea, United States--Foreign Relations--1981-1989
...rights in a joint act of appropriation ratified by Pope Alexander VI and confirmed the following year in the Treaty of Tordesillas. 8 This " mare clausum " doctrine was soon challenged by emerging maritime states -- particularly France...
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Jay's Treaty: A Study in Commerce and Diplomacy
Book by Samuel Flagg Bemis; The Macmillan Company, 1923
Subjects: Great Britain--Foreign Relations--United States, Great Britain--Treaties, Etc--United States--1794 Nov. 19, United States--Foreign Relations--Great Britain
...Britain in the years between the Treaty of Peace and the ratification of Jays...APPENDIX VI TREATY OF AMITY, COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION...ANGLO-AMERICAN diplomatic history from the treaty of independence to the signature of...
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The West European Allies, the Third World, and U.S. Foreign Policy: Post-Cold War Challenges
Book by Richard J. Payne; Praeger, 1991
Subjects: Developing Countries--Foreign Relations--Europe, Developing Countries--Foreign Relations--United States, Europe--Foreign Relations--Developing Countries, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, United States--Foreign Relations--1989-1993, United States--Foreign Relations--Developing Countries, World Politics--1985-1995
...and strengthening the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO alliance against...States allocated almost 50 percent of its military budget to NATO, largely...had been established by the Brussels Treaty of 1954. Both the long-standing French...
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Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975
Book by James S. Olson, Sam L. Slick, Samuel Freeman, Virginia Garrard Burnett, Fred Koestler; Greenwood Press, 1992
Subjects: Spain--Colonies--History--Dictionaries, Spain--History--Dictionaries, Spain--Territories And Possessions--History--Dictionaries
...between Spain and Portugal would lead to the Treaty of Tordesillas * of 1494 and its division of the Atlantic world...between Spain and Portugal that resulted in the Treaty of Tordesillas * of 1494, dividing the New World discoveries...
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Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism
Book by James S. Olson, Robert Shadle, Ross Marlay, William G. Ratliff, Joseph M. Rowe Jr.; Greenwood Press, 1991
Subjects: Europe--Colonies--History--Encyclopedias, Europe--History--1492---Encyclopedias, History, Modern--Encyclopedias
...responsibilities. Prior to the 1934 Treaty of Sana, Britain played a limited role...British Navy drove them out. The Treaty of Versailles of 1919 * allowed Australia...Sher Alis son and successor, and the Treaty of Gandamark was concluded by the end...
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journal articles on: Tordesillas Treaty Of  - 15 results

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Lines of Division, Lines of Connection: Stewardship in the World Ocean
Journal article by Philip E. Steinberg; The Geographical Review, Vol. 89, 1999
Subjects: Geographical research--Evaluation, Geography--History, Navigation--History, Territorial waters--History
...ocean space, stewardship, Treaty of Tordesillas. Historians of marine governance...1493 Papal Bull, the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, John Seldens 1635 Of the...1493 Papal Bull and the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas. These documents affirm a...
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A Map of the World
Journal article by W. George Lovell; The Geographical Review, Vol. 98, 2008
Subjects: Air travel--Canada, Air travel--Personal narratives, American Geographical Society--Services
...They were enshrined in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, when two Iberian...spatial arrangements of the Treaty of Tordesillas were replaced by those of...half centuries earlier by the Treaty of Tordesillas. I think back to the Amazon...
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Early Modern Expansion and the Politicization of Oceanic Space [*]
Journal article by Elizabeth Mancke; The Geographical Review, Vol. 89, 1999
Subjects: Geographical research--Evaluation, Geography--History, Imperialism--History, Ocean and civilization--History, Ocean--Political aspects
...ventures, the Portuguese and Spanish agreed to the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the non-Christian world between themselves...exclusively Portuguese waters under the terms of the Treaty of Tordesillas. The VOC hired the legal theorist Hugo Grotius to...
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England and the Spanish Armada: The Necessary Quarrel
Journal article by Peter Pierson; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, England and the Spanish Armada: The Necessary Quarrel (Book)--Book reviews
...book is its stress on English perceptions of Spain and Spaniards, beginning with the 1493 Papal Bull and the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas that divided the world between Spain and Portugal for commerce, colonization, and the spread of Christianity...
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Querre-Muhau: Sir Philip Sidney and the New World
Journal article by Roger Kuin; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1998
Subjects: America--History, Sidney, Philip--Conduct of life
...there are once again whales and where the natives dress in the skins of "sea Wolves." The consequences of the Treaty of Tordesillas were not, by 1568, an especially comforting thought for English Protestants, and were to be even less so after...
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Brazil
Magazine article by Brian J. Godfrey; Focus, Vol. 45, Summer 1999
Subjects: Brazil--Description and travel
...their overseas claims led the Pope to negotiate the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. This treaty divided the world between the...1494 Treaty of Tordesillas divided Portuguese and Spanish...
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Piracy in Early British America
Magazine article by Simon Smith; History Today, Vol. 46, May 1996
Subjects: Naval history--Caribbean Area, Pirates--Public opinion
...Sea settlements. While Spain continued to claim, with Portugal, an exclusive right to America under the papal Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), the usefulness of the buccaneers to the British authorities in diverting Spanish resources was clear...
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CLAIMING Amazonia
Magazine article by Loren Mcintyre; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 51, May 1999
Subjects: Amazon River Region--Description and travel, Brazil--History, Teixeira, Pedro--Biography
...miles beyond Portugals territorial limits under the Treaty of Tordesillas. In 1494, after Columbuss first voyage--yet long...Dutch, English, and Irish colonists, ignoring the Treaty of Tordesillas, founded settlements around the mouth of the great...
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A History of Native American and African Relations from 1502 to 1900
Magazine article by Arwin D. Smallwood; Negro History Bulletin, April 1999
Subjects: African Americans--History, Native Americans--History, Racially mixed people--United States
...Documents on America: The Papal Bulls of 1493 and the Treaty of Tordesillas (Berlin: P. Gottschalk, 1927); Samuel E. Dawson, Lines of Demarcation of Pope Alexander VI and the Treaty of Tordesillas, A.D. 1493 and i494 (Ottawa: J. Hope Sons, 1899...
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A Century of Arbitration: The International Court of Justice
Magazine article by Michael L. Nash; Contemporary Review, Vol. 274, May 1999
Subjects: International Court of Justice--History, Pacific settlement of international disputes--History
...1296; to the Spanish and Portuguese submitting to papal arbitration over claims in the New World in 1494 (the Treaty of Tordesillas); and more recently to the Alabama case between Britain and the United States, in 1871 and the Anglo-American...
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Andres De Urdaneta
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 31, 2007
Subjects: Urdaneta, Andres de
...as a leading navigator. He explained the Treaty of Alcacovas in 1479 and that of Tordesillas in 1494. The first one was signed between...the eastern side belonged to Portugal. The Treaty of Tordesillas was ratified by Spain in Arevalo on July...
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Legacy and Tradition of Partnership across the Pacific; (Speech Delivered at the Third Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the Forum for East Asia Anda,[logical not]"Latin America Cooperation," 22 August 2007, Palacio Itamaraty, Brasilia)
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 28, 2007
...affinity with Latin America. The Philippines would have been part of Portuguese dominion with the signing of the Treaty of Tordesillas. But destiny dictated otherwise, and the Philippines came under Spanish colonial rule. Under Spain, the Philippines...


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encyclopedia articles on: Tordesillas Treaty Of  - 9 results

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Tordesillas, Treaty Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TORDESILLAS, TREATY OF tor thase lyas...agreement signed at Tordesillas, Spain, by which...into two zones of influence. In principle the treaty followed the papal...Portugal. However, the Treaty of Tordesillas shifted the demarcation...
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Ferdinand II , King of Aragón
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Christopher Columbus , sailing under their auspices, discovered the New World, and in 1494, by the Treaty of Tordesillas (see Tordesillas, Treaty of ), Spain and Portugal divided the non-Christian world between them. Ferdinand personally was more...
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John II , King of Portugal
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...opponent, the duke of Braganza , executed for treason. John maintained peace with Spain and signed (1494) the Treaty of Tordesillas , setting bounds for Spanish and Portuguese colonial expansion. Supporting Portuguese exploration, he sent land...
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Alexander VI , Pope
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the line of demarcation that awarded part of the new discoveries in the world to Spain, part to Portugal (see Tordesillas, Treaty of ). Alexander was a munificent patron of the arts. He was succeeded by Pius III. ____________________ Copyright...
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Spain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...revolution that occurred during their reign was, however, the discovery (1492) of America by Columbus. By the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), Spain and Portugal divided the world into two spheres of influence. Almost all of South America, Central...
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