Tordesillas

American  

[tawr-the-see-lyahs] / ˌtɔr ðɛˈsi lyɑs /

noun

1. a town in NW Spain, SW of Valladolid: treaty (1494) defining the colonial spheres of Spain and Portugal.

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Example Sentences

In 1514, Pope Leo X declared that the line described in the Treaty of Tordesillas allocated territories in the Atlantic but not the Pacific.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Needless to say, the other European powers were not about to honor this agreement, called the Treaty of Tordesillas and dating to 1494, but it gave the Spanish and Portuguese a considerable head start.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

In late April, Tordesillas learned that she, too, had been named a Matrix conspirator by The Manila Times.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2019

The history of colonialism has many clear milestones, including the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain, Portugal, and the Vatican that divided the world outside Europe between the two Iberian empires.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2019

At the time when he went to China with Alfaro, Tordesillas was at the head of his convent in Manila.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 06 of 55 1583-1588 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander