With the establishment of a Moroccan and Mauritanian presence throughout the territory, however, Spain's role in the administration of the Western Sahara ceased altogether.

Although Spain's presence in the area had been sporadic, the French created a deep-sea port at Dauphin Island and founded French Louisiana's capital at Mobile, a few miles north of Mobile Bay on the Mobile River in 1702.

Spain's presence in eastern North America was limited to the province of Florida ; it also controlled Cuba and other territories in the West Indies that became military objectives in the Seven Years ' War.

Their allies, the Austrians, were also clamouring for a naval presence in the Mediterranean to assist them in achieving their own primary ambitions – the capture of Spain's provinces in Italy.

The Balearic Islands, encompassing a total area of 5, 000 square kilometers, lie 80 kilometers off Spain's central eastern coast.

As Spain's influence in the area diminished in the 19th century, the name was shortened to the current " Vancouver ".

The territorial dispute's origins lay in the 18th-century treaties in which Great Britain acceded to Spain's assertion of sovereignty while British settlers continued to occupy the sparsely settled and ill-defined area.

The independent republics that emerged from the disintegrating Spanish Empire in the 1820s claimed that they had inherited Spain's sovereign rights in the area.

The traditional music of Galicia and Asturias, located along Spain's north-west Atlantic coast, are highly distinctive folk styles that have some similarities with the neighbouring area of Cantabria.

The area in which they trained, Monte Valonsadero, is now host to the annual Cross Internacional de Soria meeting – one of Spain's most prestigious cross country running competitions.

In 1953 were started the first earthworks for the construction of the factory of ENSIDESA, a large steel mill, currently Aceralia ( part of ArcelorMittal ); other companies in the area are Cristalería Española, which together with ENDASA, currently Alcoa, transformed Avilés into one of Spain's industrial centres.

Vaishali district occupies an area of, comparatively equivalent to Spain's Tenerife.

Gopalganj district, India occupies an area of, comparatively equivalent to Spain's Tenerife Island.

Getafe is located 13 km south of Madrid's city centre, within a flat area of Spain's Meseta Central in the Manzanares River basin.

Secondary conversion can greatly expand a movement's influence, particularly after a conquest, such as the Muslim Moorish conquest of Spain and Catholic Spain's conquests in Latin America.

" Given the situation in Spain for several years regarding terrorist attacks, these ties can be considered objectively as a threat to democracy ," the court said, also adding that these parties " contradicted the concept of a ' democratic society ' and presented a major danger to Spain's democracy ".

Today's independent Belize government holds the viewpoint that treaties signed by the UK are not binding on them, that the International Court of Justice's precedent is that the 1859 treaty is binding on Guatemala unless Guatemala can firmly prove the 1859 treaty was forced upon them by the UK, that international law says any breaches in the 1859 treaty by the UK would not excuse Guatemala's breaches and the UK never made " material breaches ," that Guatemala never inherited Spain's claim because Guatemala never occupied that part of Spain's New World colonies, and the right of a people to self-determination.

From a musicological perspective both Spain's " Bandido " and France's " White and Black Blues " can be said to be the first entries to signal a new trend at Eurovision, with both songs fusing contemporary dance music with ethnic influences, from flamenco and calypso respectively.

In September 2005 Spain's Constitutional Court ruled that Spanish courts can try those accused of crimes against humanity even if the victims were not of Spanish origin.

Modern historian John Elliott said as far as any particular policies that can be attributed to Spain's rise " they were those of Ferdinand and Cardinal Cisneros.

In particular, in English, as noted above, the -' s can attach to noun phrases even when they do not end with their head noun, as in the king of Spain's, which is not typical behavior for a case ending.

In 1999, Cidon received the highest award a chef can get in Spain: the " Premio Alimentos ", given by Spain's ministry of agriculture.

This can be the basis of laws imposing that half the candidates on a given list be women ( for example in France since 2001 ) or of voluntary measures ( Spain's current government has eight women and eight men ).

The firm made no U. S. buys in 1998, but doubled its employee base with purchases including Spain's largest retail insurance broker, Gil y Carvajal, and the formation of Aon Korea, the first non-Korean firm of its kind to be licensed there.

This triggered a successful but devastating war for Spanish independence that shattered the country and created an opening for what would ultimately be the successful independence of Spain's mainland American colonies.

Also, Spain's refusal to cede Florida to France meant that Louisiana would be indefensible.

Louisiana had never been considered to be one of New Spain's internal provinces.

Initially, Cruz had no ambition to be an actress and focused on dance, having studied classical ballet for nine years at Spain's National Conservatory.

The estimation of the IMF was proven to be somewhat too pessimistic, as Spain's GDP sank less than that of most advanced economies in 2009 and by the first quarter of 2010 had already emerged from the recession.

Pitt urged that such a clear threat should be met by a pre-emptive strike against Spain's navy and her colonies-with emphasis on speed to prevent Spain bringing the annual Manila galleon safely to harbour.

Many non-Spaniards view paella as Spain's national dish, but most Spaniards consider it to be a regional Valencian dish.

Each mission was to be turned over to a secular clergy and all the common mission lands distributed amongst the native population within ten years after its founding, a policy that was based upon Spain's experience with the more advanced tribes in Mexico, Central America, and Peru.

In early 2000, The Telegraph announced that the search for Velazquez's body would be abandoned: " A CAR park is to be built over what is widely believed to be the site of the tomb of Velazquez, one of Spain's greatest artists, after the authorities abandoned attempts to find his body ... thought to have been buried in Madrid at the Iglesia de San Juan Bautista.

On 27 October 1807, Spain's Prime Minister Manuel de Godoy and France signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau, agreeing that after Spain and France had defeated Portugal, it would be split into three kingdoms: the new Kingdom of Northern Lusitania, the Algarve ( expanded to include Alentejo ), and a rump Kingdom of Portugal.

A male may also inherit a right of succession through a female ancestor or spouse, to the exclusion of any female heir who might be older or of nearer proximity of blood ( see above for Spain's mid-twentieth century dynastic succession law ).

The early 17th century saw a febrile atmosphere in Spain, with numerous arbitrista offering various advice on how to solve Spain's various ills ; this advice could, and would, be given in person by those of the lower classes to the king on suitable occasions, provided it was presented with the aim of strengthening the crown.

Having begun his literary career as an internationalist, Unamuno gradually became convinced of the universal values of Spanish culture, feeling that Spain's essential qualities would be destroyed if influenced too much by outside forces.

Till 2008, RTVE was funded both from public sources and private advertising ; however, the Spanish government has recently decreed that, starting in September 2009, RTVE's channels shall be funded with taxpayer's money and with private founding raised from the rest of Spain's private TV stations, thus removing advertising from the broadcaster.

As Spain's former colonies in Central America gained their independence in 1821 and then began a series of wars to determine whether there would be a federalist, unitary union, or each former province would be independent, the potential of any regional power to threaten the Miskito kingdom declined.

In Italy he was pursued by the enmity of the Conde-Duque of Olivares, curiously enough, born in Rome in 1587, where his father, don Enrique de Guzmán y Ribera, a cadet child from one of Spain's oldest noble families, was the Spanish ambassador, as was also his patron Spinola, who caused him to be deprived of his powers as plenipotentiary.

With help from James White ( who was later found to be a paid agent of Spain's ), he attempted to place Franklin under Spanish rule.