Spanish rule
Colonial empire's control
Spanish rule refers to the period when Spain governed a territory as a colonial power.
The phrase appears most often in discussions of Latin American, Philippine, and Caribbean history: The Philippines was under Spanish rule for over three hundred years.
It implies not just political control but cultural and religious influence—the spread of Catholicism, the Spanish language, and colonial administration systems.
- viceroyaltyTerritory under delegated sovereignty
- colonial eraAge of overseas dominion
- goldElement seventy-nine
- Catholic missionariesReligious workers spreading Catholicism
- silver minesExcavations for precious metal
Catholicism · Simón Bolívar · repartimiento · forced labor · royal decree · criollo · independence movement · Reconquista · Mexico · revolt · Inquisition · New World · Isabella · Philippines · Habsburg · armada · Bourbon · Peru
- Latin AmericaArgentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Cuba
- NetherlandsAmsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, tulips
- Philippine historypresidents, vice president, revolutionaries, Imelda, Duterte
- Caribbean historyJamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Cuba, Trinidad
- Low Countries HistoryDutch Golden Age, Dutch Republic, William of Orange, Peace of Westphalia, Dutch East India Company
- Portuguese historyAge of Discovery, Carnation Revolution, Salazar, Henry the Navigator, Vasco da Gama
Spanish ruleindependence
Freedom from external control
self-rule · sovereignty · liberation · autonomy · self-determination
Spanish rulerepublic
State with elected leaders
native sovereignty · democracy · republican government · constitutional government · popular sovereignty