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Spanish Grand Prix
Spanish Grand Prix: Formula One round first held 1913, championship era from 1951 at Pedralbes; at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya since 1991; moves to Madrid's Madring 2026–2035. Records: Schumacher and Hamilton six wins each.
Spanish Guinea
Spanish Guinea (Guinea Española) was Spain's Gulf of Guinea colony, formed in 1926 from Fernando Póo, Río Muni, Elobey, Annobón, and Corisco, ceded by Portugal in 1778; it became independent Equatorial Guinea on 12 October 1968.
Spanish immigration to Argentina
Spanish immigration to Argentina was the mass movement of people from Spain to Argentina, principally from the 1880s to the early 1960s, making Spaniards the second largest foreign-born group after Italians.
Spanish influence on Filipino culture
Spanish influence on Filipino culture: the religious, linguistic, culinary, and artistic legacy of Spanish colonial rule (1565–1898), including Catholicism, Chabacano, baro't saya, fiestas, and galleon-borne Mexican influences.
Spanish Inquisition
The Spanish Inquisition was a royal ecclesiastical tribunal founded in Castile and Aragon by papal bull in 1478 to punish heresy among converted Christians, operating until its abolition in 1834.
Spanish language
Spanish (español, castellano): Romance language of Castile with 520+ million native-dominance speakers across Spain, the Americas, and Equatorial Guinea; third-largest native community after Mandarin and Hindi; official RAE standard since 1713.
Spanish language in the Philippines
Spanish in the Philippines: the language brought by Legazpi in 1565, official during 333 years of Spanish rule until 1898, in decline under US rule, surviving in Chavacano creole and Tagalog loanwords, and reintroduced in schools from 2007.
Spanish language in the United States
Spanish in the United States (español estadounidense): the country's second most used language, with 44.9 million home speakers in 2024, official in Puerto Rico and New Mexico, predating English in Florida and the Southwest.
Spanish Legion
The Spanish Legion (Legión Española, originally Tercio de Extranjeros) is a professional Spanish Army infantry force founded in 1920 by Millán-Astray for the Moroccan wars, now built around the BRILEG brigade and tercios in Ceuta and Melilla.
Spanish Main
The Spanish Main was the Spanish-held Caribbean mainland coast called Tierra Firme, and by extension the treasure ports and convoy lanes connecting that coast to Spain.
Spanish Maquis
Spanish Maquis were anti-Franco guerrilla fighters who waged irregular resistance against the dictatorship from 1936 until 1963, marked by the failed 1944 Vall d'Aran invasion.
Spanish March
The Spanish March, also known as Marca Hispánica, was the Carolingian military frontier province south of the Pyrenees, established between 778 and 801, forming the nucleus of the later Catalonia.
Spanish Match
The Spanish Match was the proposed early-17th-century marriage between Charles, Prince of Wales, and the Spanish Infanta María, negotiated on and off from 1603 until its collapse in 1624.
Spanish miracle
The Spanish miracle, or El milagro español, was a period of exceptionally rapid economic growth in Spain from 1959 to 1974, launched by the 1959 Stabilization Plan.
Spanish missions in California
The Spanish missions in California were a chain of 21 Franciscan missions founded beginning in 1769, from San Diego to beyond San Francisco, where Native people were gathered, baptized, and put to work.
Spanish moss
Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides), a gray epiphytic bromeliad of the Americas, not a moss or parasite; feeds via trichomes from air and rain, hosts bats and nesting birds, and once fueled a Southern stuffing industry.
Spanish naming customs
Spanish naming customs: one or two given names plus two surnames, father's first and mother's second, codified in Spain's 1870 Civil Register law and Ley 20/2011, with patronymic -ez surnames and US adaptation problems.
Spanish National Research Council
The Spanish National Research Council, Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), is Spain's largest public research organization, a state agency founded in 1939 and seated in Madrid.
Spanish nationality law
Spanish nationality law governs who is a Spanish national, acquisition by option, carta de naturaleza, residence, and possession of status, residence periods of 1 to 10 years, and loss rules, plus the Democratic Memory Law grandchildren route.
Spanish Navy
Spanish Navy (Armada Española), Spain's naval force. Royal navy founded by Philip V in the early 18th century; today the Fleet commands from Rota, runs S-80 submarines, F-110 frigates, the Juan Carlos I LHD, and NATO standing-group deployments.
Spanish Netherlands
Spanish Netherlands: the southern Low Countries (roughly modern Belgium, excluding Liège) under Spanish Habsburg rule from the Dutch Revolt until the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, then Austrian Netherlands.
Spanish nobility
Spanish nobility (nobleza española): hereditary estate from hidalgos to Grandes de España, defined by honor, crown service, and pure blood; still legally regulated, with about 417 grandezas today.
Spanish occupation of Ternate
The Spanish occupation of Ternate (1606–1663) was Spain's rule over the clove-producing island of Ternate, begun by Governor Pedro Bravo de Acuña's conquest and ended when garrisons withdrew under Dutch pressure.
Spanish omelette
The Spanish omelette, tortilla de patatas or tortilla española, is Spain's thick egg-and-potato omelette cooked in olive oil, optionally with onion; first documented in an 1817 Navarrese memorial, subject of the national con cebolla o sin cebolla debate, and a national symbol.
Spanish orthography
Spanish orthography: the standardized spelling, accentuation, and punctuation system of Spanish, regulated by the RAE and ASALE, codified in the 2010 Ortografía de la lengua española, and characterized as a shallow, transparent system.
Spanish peseta
The Spanish peseta was the currency of Spain from 1868, when it replaced the escudo, until 2002, when the euro took over after more than 130 years.
Spanish phonology
Spanish phonology: the sound system of Spanish, with five vowels /a e i o u/, CV syllable preference, spirantization of /b d ɡ/, and the 15th-17th century sibilant merger that split seseo (Latin America) from distinción (northern Spain).
Spanish profanity
Spanish profanity (tacos, palabrotas, groserías) covers taboo words drawing on sex, genitalia, and bodily functions. It varies by region, gender, age, and education, and Spanish dubbing has shifted from omitting swearwords to intensifying them.
Spanish protectorate in Morocco
The Spanish protectorate in Morocco, commonly called Spanish Morocco, was a colonial protectorate Spain held over northern Morocco from 1912 until 1956, with a southern zone until 1958.
Spanish Rally Championship
The Spanish Rally Championship (Campeonato de España de Rally) is Spain's national rallying series, run by the Real Federación Española de Automovilismo. Since 2021 its flagship title has been the mixed-surface S-CER, alongside the asphalt-only CERA-RECALVI.