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Spanglish
Spanglish (espanglish) is the popular label for Spanish-English contact phenomena, chiefly borrowing and code-switching, among bilingual US Hispanic communities; contested by linguists like Otheguy and Stern, used by about 63% of US Latinos, and tied to 1848 and 1902 contact events.
Spanglish (film)
Spanglish is a 2004 American comedy-drama directed and written by James L. Brooks, starring Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, and Paz Vega as a Mexican housekeeper.
Spanian
Spanian, real name Anthony Lees, is an Australian YouTuber and former criminal whose "Into The Hood" neighborhood-tour videos drew roughly 700,000 YouTube subscribers, alongside Instagram and TikTok followings, and a dropped autobiography.
Spaniards
Spaniards (Españoles) are the people of Spain, defined by Spanish nationality and the historical, linguistic, and religious inheritance of the Iberian Peninsula, including regional-language speakers and a large diaspora.
Spaniel
Spaniel: a gun-dog type bred to find, flush, and fetch game, also including toy breeds like the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Origin disputed (Spain or Asia); documented since the 1387 Book of the Chase; AKC recognizes 15 spaniel breeds as of 2025.
Spanish Abolition of Patronato (1880-1886)
The Spanish Abolition of Patronato (Ley de abolición del patronato de 1880) was the 1886 decree ending slavery in Cuba, eight years after the 1880 patronato law.
Spanish Affair (2014 film)
Spanish Affair (Ocho apellidos vascos) is a 2014 Spanish romantic comedy directed by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, in which a Sevillian poses as Basque to win over a Basque woman.
Spanish Affair 2
Spanish Affair 2 (Ocho apellidos catalanes), 2015 Spanish romantic comedy by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, sequel to Ocho apellidos vascos; Catalan-set wedding farce that grossed 36.1 million euros despite poor reviews.
Spanish American wars of independence
The Spanish American wars of independence (1809–1825, rooted in the 1808 Napoleonic invasion of Spain) were the campaigns by which Spain's American territories became more than a dozen republics, led by Bolívar and San Martín, ending at Ayacucho while Cuba and Puerto Rico remained Spanish.
Spanish and Portuguese intervention in Cambodia
The Spanish and Portuguese intervention in Cambodia was a series of armed expeditions in 1596–1599, led by Blas Ruiz and Diogo Veloso, ending in massacre.
Spanish Annexation of the Dominican Republic and War of the Restoration
The Spanish annexation of the Dominican Republic, proclaimed by Pedro Santana in March 1861, was reversed when the 1863 to 1865 War of the Restoration forced Spain to withdraw.
Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada (Grande y Felicísima Armada) was Philip II of Spain's 1588 invasion fleet against Protestant England. English ships under Howard, Drake, Hawkins, and Frobisher outmaneuvered it at Gravelines, and storms wrecked it on the Scottish and Irish coasts.
Spanish Armed Forces
Spanish Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas Españolas): Spain's military under the 1978 Constitution, comprising the Army, Navy, and Air and Space Army, led by the EMAD chief, a NATO member since 1982, with defense spending rising toward 2% of GDP.
Spanish Army
Spanish Army (Ejército de Tierra): land branch of Spain's armed forces, headquartered at Buenavista Palace under JEME Amador Enseñat; one division with six main brigades, expanding to 127,500 active personnel by 2029, deployed from Lebanon to Latvia.
Spanish banking crisis (1977–1981)
The Spanish banking crisis of 1977–1981 was a wave of solvency failures among Spanish private banks, affecting 51 to 63 of the 110 banks operating in 1977.
Spanish capture of Algiers (1510)
The Spanish capture of Algiers (احتلال الجزائر العاصمة) was Spain's 1510 seizure of an islet off Algiers, where Count Pedro Navarro built the Penon fortress.
Spanish capture of Béjaïa
The Spanish capture of Béjaïa was Spain's 1510 seizure of the port of Béjaïa (Bougie, Bugía) in northeastern Algeria, held until Ottoman liberation in the mid-1550s.
Spanish capture of Tripoli (1510)
The Spanish capture of Tripoli (1510) was the seizure of the city from the Hafsid dynasty by Pedro Navarro for the Crown of Aragon in July 1510.
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española), 1936-1939 conflict between the Republican Second Republic and Franco's Nationalists; began with the 17-18 July 1936 coup, ended 1 April 1939, about 500,000 dead, Franco dictatorship until 1975.
Spanish colonization of Alta California
Spanish colonization of Alta California was Spain's settlement of present-day California from 1769 to 1821, carried out through Franciscan missions, military presidios, and civilian pueblos.
Spanish colonization of Chiloé
Spanish colonization of Chiloé (1553–1826) was Spanish rule over the Chiloé Archipelago in southern Chile, conquered by Martín Ruiz de Gamboa in 1567 and transferred to Chile by the Treaty of Tantauco in 1826.
Spanish colonization of Hispaniola
Spanish colonization of Hispaniola, the first sustained European colonial enterprise in the Americas, began with Columbus's 1492 landfall and set the template, including the encomienda system, for Spanish conquest of the Americas.
Spanish colonization of the Americas
Spanish colonization of the Americas: the Spanish Empire's colonies from 1492 across the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America. Key features: encomienda, repartimiento, and mita labor systems, Council of the Indies rule, Potosí silver, Las Casas's reform campaigns, and the black legend.
Spanish conquest of Chiapas
The Spanish conquest of Chiapas was the piecemeal subjugation of the present Mexican state of Chiapas from 1522 to about 1550, carried out by separate expeditions beginning with Gonzalo de Sandoval.
Spanish conquest of Costa Rica
The Spanish conquest of Costa Rica was Spain's sixteenth-century colonization of present-day Costa Rica, beginning with Columbus's 1502 landfall and consolidated after 1561 by Juan Vázquez de Coronado.
Spanish conquest of Cuba
The Spanish conquest of Cuba (Conquista de Cuba) was the Spanish campaign of 1511 to 1514, led by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, that took Cuba from its Taino inhabitants.
Spanish conquest of El Salvador
The Spanish conquest of El Salvador was the 16th-century campaign in which Spain subdued the Pipil kingdoms of Cuscatlán and Izalcos, beginning with Pedro de Alvarado's 1524 invasion.
Spanish conquest of Honduras
The Spanish conquest of Honduras (Conquista de Honduras) was the Spanish campaign that took control of Honduras, beginning in 1524 and drawing Hernán Cortés on an overland march from Mexico.
Spanish conquest of Jamaica
The Spanish conquest of Jamaica was Spain's seizure of the island from its Taíno inhabitants in 1509–1511, led by first governor Juan de Esquivel under Diego Colón.
Spanish conquest of Manila
The Spanish conquest of Manila was the capture of the fortified Muslim settlement of Maynila by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi's forces in 1571, after fighting in 1570.