User:Mhatopzz/Spanish colonial presence in the Indonesian Archipelago
Spanish forts in the Moluccas Las Islas Malucas | |
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1606–1663 | |
![]() The Magellan map of 1529 by Diogo Ribeiro illustrating the claims that Maluku actually fell within the Spanish rather than Portuguese sphere. | |
Status | Territory of the Spanish East Indies |
Capital |
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Government | Monarchy |
Monarch | |
• 1606–1621 | Phillip III |
• 1621–1663 | Philip IV |
Governor | |
• 1606–1609 | Juan de Esquivel |
• 1663 | Francesco de Atienza Ibañez |
Historical era | Age of Discovery |
22 April 1529 | |
• Spanish conquest | 15 March–1 April 1606 |
• Abandonment | 1663 |
Spanish colonization era | |||
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1521–1663 | |||
![]() Spanish and Dutch ships engaged in a fight in the town of Tidore, 1601. | |||
Location | Malay Archipelago, East Indies | ||
Including | Portuguese–Ternate wars Treaty of Zaragoza | ||
Key events | Age of Discovery | ||
Chronology
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The Spanish Empire occupied numerous forts in the Maluku Islands from 1606 to 1663 to dominate the spice trade as well as securing the Iberian presence in the region from the growing influence of the Dutch East India Company.
Spanish presence in the Maluku Islands began in 1521 when the Voyage of Magellan-Elcano expedition reached the island of Tidore, they were greeted by the Sultan of Tidore Al-Mansur (Spanish accounts named him Almanzor), the spice rich island made the Spanish interested in trading and practicing monopoly in Maluku, however, the Portuguese were already present in the region and had allied with local rulers in the region. In the late 16th century, a conflict between the Portuguese and Ternateans was erupting, in the middle of the conflict, the Spanish Empire frequently intervened the conflict as they sent numerous fleets to conquer the islands in Maluku in a series of seaborne expeditions from Manila were launched in 1582, 1584, 1585, 1593 and 1603, none of these were successful. On 15 March 1606 the Philippine governor Pedro Bravo de Acuña, sent an expedition to capture the fort of Gammalamma and other forts occupied by Ternateans and Dutch in Ternate, the fort of Gammalamma was captured on 1 April 1606 and Spain left a garrison of 500 men in the island. Ternate was governed by the Spanish from Manila and remained there until its abandonment in 1663.
Background
[edit]Magellan-Elcano expedition
[edit]Loaísa expedition
[edit]Discovery of Nova Guinea
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/NovaGuinea1600map.jpg/180px-NovaGuinea1600map.jpg)
Conquest of Maluku
[edit]Decline
[edit]See also
[edit]- Indonesia–Spain relations
- Mardijker people
- Fort Tahula–Spanish fort on the island of Tidore, Maluku.