HONOLULU (KHON2) — There’s a little-known fact amongst those of us who live in Hawaiʻi. For nearly 200 years, the Spanish Empire found and lost Hawaiʻi several times. Since around 21% of Hawaiʻi ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Rob Blount, executive director of Mission San Luis in Tallahassee, Florida, talked about the Spanish Empire's presence in western Florida and their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here along Florida’s Treasure Coast, public interest tends to focus on the riches scattered on the ocean floor with the remains of ...

Fragments of delicate Chinese porcelain, white with intricate blue swirls, make a curious contrast with other artifacts — mostly rusted metal or decayed wood — in the treasure fleet exhibit at the St.

United crowns, bold explorers, and conquests across the seas turned Spain into the world’s first global empire. Its beginnings were as dramatic as its rule.

Shortly after the Spanish Crown began its expansionary project in the Indies, Vitoria wrote his 1532 De Iure Belli, rejecting the notion that either the emperor or the pope was the master of the world ...

After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the exiled Byzantine claimant Andreas Palaiologos bequeathed the imperial title in 1502 to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. Though the ...

For a nation that traces its origins to the first westerly landfall by Columbus in 1492, America knows startlingly little about Spain, under whose flag the great explorer crossed the Atlantic. Reasons ...