<p>Map of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire" class="extiw" title="en:Spanish Empire">Spanish Empire</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Imperio_espa%C3%B1ol.png" class="extiw" title="en:Image:Imperio español.png">295px</a>.
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<ul><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#Summary"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Summary</span></a>
<ul><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Red"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Red</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Pink"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Pink</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Lavender"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Lavender</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Purple"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">Purple</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#Brown"><span class="tocnumber">1.5</span> <span class="toctext">Brown</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Licensing"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Licensing</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Summary">Summary</span></h2>
<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Red">Red</span></h4>
<p>The Spanish Empire as it stood under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bourbon" class="extiw" title="en:House of Bourbon">en:House of Bourbon</a>, reaching its peak in the early 1790s. Includes the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Spain" class="extiw" title="en:Viceroyalty of New Spain">en:Viceroyalty of New Spain</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_Peru" class="extiw" title="en:Viceroyalty of Peru">en:Viceroyalty of Peru</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_La_Plata" class="extiw" title="en:Viceroyalty of La Plata">en:Viceroyalty of La Plata</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroyalty_of_New_Granada" class="extiw" title="en:Viceroyalty of New Granada">en:Viceroyalty of New Granada</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiencia_of_Chile" class="extiw" title="en:Audiencia of Chile">en:Audiencia of Chile</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba" class="extiw" title="en:Cuba">en:Cuba</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico" class="extiw" title="en:Puerto Rico">en:Puerto Rico</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Domingo" class="extiw" title="en:Santo Domingo">en:Santo Domingo</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_(New_France)" class="extiw" title="en:Louisiana (New France)">Louisiana colony</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootka_Island" class="extiw" title="en:Nootka Island">Nootka colony</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" class="extiw" title="en:Philippines">en:Philippines</a>, the satellite <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Naples" class="extiw" title="en:Kingdom of Naples">en:Kingdom of Naples</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Parma" class="extiw" title="en:Duchy of Parma">en:Duchy of Parma</a>, and various island groups.
</p><p>Louisiana and New Orleans, which were never widely settled, were returned to France in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Treaty_of_San_Ildefonso" class="extiw" title="en:Third Treaty of San Ildefonso">1800</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootka_Island" class="extiw" title="en:Nootka Island">Nootka colony</a> was abandoned in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootka_Convention" class="extiw" title="en:Nootka Convention">1795</a>; Spain ceded its claims to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Territory" class="extiw" title="en:Mississippi Territory">en:Mississippi Territory</a> to the United States in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinckney%27s_Treaty" class="extiw" title="en:Pinckney's Treaty">1795</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida" class="extiw" title="en:Florida">en:Florida</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams-On%C3%ADs_Treaty" class="extiw" title="en:Adams-Onís Treaty">1819</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Spain" class="extiw" title="en:New Spain">en:New Spain</a> became an independent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico" class="extiw" title="en:Mexico">en:Mexico</a> in 1821.
</p><p>Spanish settlement did not reach the south of Argentina and Chile until the early <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century" class="extiw" title="en:19th century">en:19th century</a>.  By <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_Wars_of_Independence" class="extiw" title="en:South American Wars of Independence">1824</a>, all of Spain's South American colonies had become independent republics.
</p><p>British economic rights in present-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize" class="extiw" title="en:Belize">en:Belize</a> were established in the 18th century. The colony of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Honduras" class="extiw" title="en:British Honduras">en:British Honduras</a> was not created until 1841, after the end of Spanish rule in the region. Most of Central America became independent in 1823 as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Provinces_of_Central_America" class="extiw" title="en:United Provinces of Central America">en:United Provinces of Central America</a>. Cuba was granted independence and Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish-American_War" class="extiw" title="en:Spanish-American War">en:Spanish-American War</a>.
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Pink">Pink</span></h4>
<p>Regions of Spanish influence over various periods; disputed (i.e. Pacific Coast), unrecognized (i.e. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic" class="extiw" title="en:Dutch Republic">en:Dutch Republic</a>), or short-lived claims (i.e. Cambodia).
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<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland" class="extiw" title="en:Newfoundland">en:Newfoundland</a> (the Spanish Basque fishing fleet along with French and English fishermen controlled small parts of Newfoundland in the summer during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century" class="extiw" title="en:16th century">en:16th century</a>. This control was shared each summer as politics were mostly ignored by the fishermen.)</li>
<li>The Protestant Netherlands revolted against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Spain" class="extiw" title="en:Philip II of Spain">Philip II</a> in 1568 and declared their independence as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic" class="extiw" title="en:Dutch Republic">United Provinces</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_Abjuration" class="extiw" title="en:Oath of Abjuration">1581</a>. After a long and bloody war this nation was finally granted official recognition by Spain and the international community in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Westphalia" class="extiw" title="en:Treaty of Westphalia">1648</a>.</li>
<li>The part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Basin" class="extiw" title="en:Amazon Basin">en:Amazon Basin</a> shown here under Spanish influence was incorporated into Portuguese Brazil in the 17th and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th_century" class="extiw" title="en:18th century">18th centuries</a>.</li></ul><h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Lavender">Lavender</span></h4>
<p>Territories lost at or before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Utrecht" class="extiw" title="en:Peace of Utrecht">en:Peace of Utrecht</a> in 1714. Spain lost Jamaica to England in the 1650s and Haiti to France in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century" class="extiw" title="en:17th century">en:17th century</a>. Many smaller islands in  the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahamas" class="extiw" title="en:Bahamas">en:Bahamas</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Antilles" class="extiw" title="en:Lesser Antilles">en:Lesser Antilles</a> were also settled by other Europeans during this period. Spain's territories in present-day France, such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rousillon" class="extiw" title="en:Rousillon">en:Rousillon</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franche-Comt%C3%A9" class="extiw" title="en:Franche-Comté">en:Franche-Comté</a>, were conquered <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV_of_France" class="extiw" title="en:Louis XIV of France">Louis XIV</a>. Spain was stripped of her remaining European dominions in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Utrecht" class="extiw" title="en:Treaty of Utrecht">1714</a>. Spain reconquered some of her lost Italian possessions from the Austrians in the 18th century, placing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bourbon" class="extiw" title="en:House of Bourbon">Bourbon</a> princes on the thrones of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Parma" class="extiw" title="en:Duchy of Parma">Parma</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Naples" class="extiw" title="en:Kingdom of Naples">Naples</a>, and Sicily. However, these were not incorporated again into the Spanish Crown.
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Empire" class="extiw" title="en:Portuguese Empire">Portuguese possessions</a> ruled jointly under the Spanish sovereign, 1580-1640.
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Spain's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa" class="extiw" title="en:West Africa">en:West African</a> empire, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_West_Africa" class="extiw" title="en:Spanish West Africa">en:Spanish West Africa</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Morocco" class="extiw" title="en:Spanish Morocco">en:Spanish Morocco</a>.
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