viceroyalty
Americannoun
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the dignity, office, or period of office of a viceroy.
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a country or province ruled by a viceroy.
noun
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the office, authority, or dignity of a viceroy
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the domain governed by a viceroy
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the term of office of a viceroy
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Casta paintings originate from the Spanish American viceroyalty of Mexico in the 18th Century.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2023
Even Mexico via the Spanish viceroyalty in Acapulco.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2018
With its capital at Mexico City, the former Tenochtitlán, the viceroyalty of New Spain included all Spanish territory north of Panama.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
He was born in the once absurdly rich silver-mining hill town of Guanajuato, scene of some of the most horrific abuses of the Spanish viceroyalty after the European conquest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2016
The internal trade of Mexico was, accordingly, fostered and beneficially sustained by the continuance of its large annual metallic products within the viceroyalty until peace permitted their safe transmission abroad.
Now, however, local governments within each of the viceroyalties were in the hands of governors, or intendants.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
In both these viceroyalties, the basis of Spanish economic activity had evolved from the payment of tribute to the enforcement of systematic forms of labor such as debt servitude.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Essentially the same racially and spiritually coded messages are sent by works made a century apart in Spain’s two viceroyalties, north and south.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
It was not until 1740 that Philip V determined the boundary between his viceroyalties of Santa Fe and of Lima.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other eight colonies were viceroyalties, with governors appointed by the king, while in all alike the people elected the legislatures.
From The Critical Period of American History by Fiske, John
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