The legal definition of franchising in Spain is an activity in which an undertaking, the franchisor, grants to another party, the franchisee, for a specific market and in exchange for financial compensation ( either direct, indirect or both ), the right to exploit an owned system to commercialize products or services already exploited by the franchisor with enough success and experience.

Instructions and a questionnaire, issued in 1577 by the Office of the Cronista Mayor, were distributed to local officials in the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru to direct the gathering of information.

For additional information about this period, see the History of Roman Catholicism in Spain.

In July 2001, Atta traveled to Spain where he met with bin al-Shibh to exchange information and finalize the plot.

own time ; next and more particularly, in the information he has preserved concerning the struggle over the Priscillianist heresy, which disorganized and degraded the churches of Spain and Gaul, and particularly affected Aquitaine.

While Spain was fighting in France, Portugal — which had been under personal union with Spain for 60 years — acclaimed John IV of Braganza as king in 1640, and the House of Braganza became the new dynasty of Portugal ( see Portuguese Restoration War, for further information ).

In 1761 Pitt had received information from his agents about a secret Bourbon Family Compact by which the Bourbons of France and Spain bound themselves in an offensive alliance against Britain.

" Two centuries later, Europeans perceived Saracens as poor, uneducated idolaters belonging to a group wholly separate from the Arabs who brought Aristotle to the Latin West and the Moors and Berbers fighting Christians in Spain ; someone who got all of his or her information on Islam from medieval sources would not conclude the three groups represented one continuous culture.

After the “ Placencia de Armas Co. Ltd ”; company, which swindled the Spanish Government selling useless and rather useless utility arms for Spain during the 1898 war ( also, this company, provided to Maxim outstanding and " sensitive " information that passed to his government during the conflict ), the Constructora Naval came and few years later, the Sociedad Española de Construcciones Navales, branch of Vickers in Spain were awarded, by the Spanish Government, the monopoly of the naval construction for the Spanish Navy.

; Didacticism: The speaker who has discovered that Juan and Quixote are not pronounced in Spain as he used to pronounce them as a boy is not content to keep so important a piece of information to himself ; he must have the rest of us call them Hwan and Keehotay ; at any rate he will give us the chance of mending our ignorant ways by doing so.

Manuel Castells ( Spanish name: Manuel Castells Oliván ; born 1942, in Hellín, Albacete, Spain ) is a Spanish sociologist especially associated with research on the information society, communication and globalization.

When in October 1761 Pitt, who had information of the signing of the " Family Compact " wished to declare war on Spain, and declared his intention to resign unless his advice was accepted, Granville replied that " the opinion of the majority ( of the Cabinet ) must decide ".

* His chronicle, a work written in 1161 under the title of Sefer ha-Kabbalah ( Book of Tradition ), in which he fiercely attacked the contentions of Karaism and justified rabbinical Judaism by the establishment of a chain of traditions from Moses to his own time, is replete with valuable general information, especially relating to the time of the Geonim and to the history of the Jews in Spain.

When Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998 in response to Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón's request for his extradition to Spain, information concerning Condor was revealed.

The Viceroy of New Spain, Antonio María Bucareli y Ursúa, demanded to explore the area north of Alta California in response to information that there were colonial Russian settlements there.

* Photos and information on cloisters in France, Italy and Spain

His friendship with the British consul-general at Madrid, Stanier Porten ( uncle of the historian Edward Gibbon ) deepened his interest in trade matters, and he used the consuls as well as paid spies to get accurate information about Spain ’ s naval rebuilding.

In the early 1950s the company began promoting ' foreign holidays ' ( particularly Italy, Spain and Switzerland ) by showing information films at town halls throughout Britain.

Francisco Hernández, physician to Philip II of Spain spent the years 1571 – 1577 gathering information in Mexico and then wrote Rerum Medicarum Novae Hispaniae Thesaurus, many versions of which have been published including one by Francisco Ximénez.

In Spain, the adoption of English words is extremely common in the spheres of business and information technology, although it is usually frowned upon by purists.

In 1939 the Vicar-General of the Diocese of Madrid-Alcalas issued a baptismal certificate to Maria Pia with information provided to him at that time by Don Antonio Goicoechea y Cusculluela, a member of the Spanish parliament and the Governor of the Bank of Spain, who had reportedly been present at the baptism.

The Center's essential goal is to give the Spanish Government all the necessary information to prevent, and given the case, to avoid any risk or menace that affects the independence or integrity of Spain, its national interests, as well as the rule of law and its institutions.

Napoleon's information was outdated and Soult's intervention came too late ; starving and understrength, Masséna's army was already withdrawing to Spain.

As the end of the Spanish American War neared, the United States bought the Philippines from Spain for $ 20 million.

Lara moved in with his future fellow Trinidadian cricketer Michael Carew in Woodbrook, Port of Spain ( a 20 minute drive from Santa Cruz ).

It is one of the busiest railways in Europe, with 20 % more train services than France, 60 % more than Italy, and more than Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Portugal and Norway combined.

In 2009, transgenic maize was grown commercially in 11 countries, including the United States ( where 85 % of the maize crop was genetically modified ), Argentina ( 83 % GM ), Brazil ( 36 % GM ), South Africa ( 57 % GM ), Canada ( 84 % GM ), the Philippines ( 19 % GM ) and Spain ( 20 % GM ).

Almost immediately after the order of Kotaka was placed, Fernando Villaamil, second officer of the Ministry of the Navy of Spain where he was put in charge of developing the concept of a new ship designed to combat torpedo boats, placed an order for a large torpedo gunboat in November 1885, with the British builder James and George Thompson, of Clydebank, not far from where the Yarrow shipyards would move from London 20 years later.

* Born elsewhere in Spain: 20, 938

Images believed to depict the Great Auk were also carved into the walls of the El Pinto Cave in Spain over 35, 000 years ago, while cave paintings 20, 000 years old have been found in France's Grotte Cosquer.

On July 20, 1808, Joseph Bonaparte, eldest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, entered Madrid and established a government by which he became King of Spain, serving as a surrogate for Napoleon.

Cuba gained its independence and Spain lost its remaining New World colony, Puerto Rico, which together with Guam and the Philippines were ceded to the United States for 20 million dollars.

includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Argentina 9, Australia 2, Austria 15, Belgium 9, Brazil 5, Canada 4, Cayman Islands 1, Chile 7, China 39, Croatia 11, Denmark 4, Ecuador 1, Estonia 1, Germany 437, Greece 154, Hong Kong 69, India 5, Indonesia 1, Israel 1, Italy 5, Japan 90, Latvia 20, Man, Isle of 5, Monaco 56, Netherlands 12, New Zealand 1, Nigeria 1, Norway 103, Pakistan 1, Portugal 5, Russia 66, Saudi Arabia 21, Singapore 20, Slovenia 1, South Africa 1, South Korea 10, Spain 2, Sweden 9, Switzerland 17, Taiwan 29, Turkey 3, Ukraine 4, United Arab Emirates 12, United Kingdom 39, United States 113, Uruguay 3, Vietnam 1 ( 2002 est.

On 20 January 2006, it was announced that the first commercial venture to use MusicBrainz data is the Barcelona, Spain based Linkara in their Linkara Música service.

In the Netherlands 9. 5 % of young adults ( aged 15 – 34 ) consume soft drugs once a month, comparable to the level of Finland ( 8 %), Latvia ( 9, 7 %) and Norway ( 9. 6 %) and less than in the UK ( 13. 8 %), Germany ( 11, 9 %), Czech Republic ( 19, 3 %), Denmark ( 13, 3 %), Spain ( 18. 8 %), France ( 16, 7 %), Slovakia ( 14, 7 %) and Italy ( 20, 9 %) but higher than in Bulgaria ( 4, 4 %), Sweden ( 4, 8 %), Poland ( 5, 3 %) or Greece ( 3, 2 %).

* Picual, from southern Spain ( province of Jaén ), is the most widely cultivated olive in Spain, comprising about 50 % of Spain's olive production and around 20 % of world olive production.

Pope John XXI, born Pedro Julião ( Latin, Petrus Iulianus ( c. 1215 – 20 May 1277 ), a Portuguese often identified with Pedro Hispano ( Latin, Petrus Hispanus ; English, Peter of Spain ), was Pope from 1276 until his death about eight months later.

China 37. 9 %, United States 20 %, Australia 6. 2 %, France 6. 0 %, Spain 4. 8 %, Italy 4. 3 %, Netherlands 4. 3 % ( 2011 )

On 20 February 1948, Prokofiev's wife Lina was arrested for ' espionage ', as she tried to send money to her mother in Spain.

Spain | Spanish Prime Minister of Spain | Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero addressing the General Assembly in New York, 20 September 2005

* April 25 – Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain ; the U. S. Congress announces that a state of war has existed since April 21 ( later backdating this one more day to April 20 ).

On 15 August, Cornwallis decided to detach 20 ships of the line from the fleet guarding the Channel and to have them sail southward to engage the enemy forces in Spain.

He was arrested by Spanish authorities on July 20 and ultimately expelled from Spain.

Soon after the turn of the 15th to 16th century, nearly 20, 000 Sephardic Jews had immigrated to Greece from Spain following their expulsion.