La Florida

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La Florida was a vast 16th-century Spanish colonial territory in the southeastern region of what is now the United States, encompassing parts of present-day Florida and surrounding areas.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
La Florida canonical 3
Florida 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Spanish colonial territory
former territory of the Spanish Empire
historical region
appliesToJurisdiction Spanish Empire
borderedBy English colonies on the Atlantic seaboard
French colonial Louisiana
surface form: French Louisiana
capital Municipality of Havana
surface form: Havana (de facto administrative center for much of the period)

St. Augustine
continent North America
country Spanish Empire
discovererOrInventor Juan Ponce de León
endTime 1763
18th century
ethnicGroup African slaves
Spanish colonists
indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands
followedBy East Florida
surface form: British East Florida

West Florida
surface form: British West Florida
historyOfTopic European exploration of North America
Spanish colonization of the Americas
inception 1513
languageUsed Spanish
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Viceroyalty of New Spain
surface form: New Spain
namedAfter Pascua Florida (Feast of Flowers)
namedBy Juan Ponce de León
partOf Spanish America
Spanish West Indies
Spanish colonial borderlands in North America
religion Roman Catholicism
significantEvent Seven Years' War cession to Britain in 1763
Spanish missions in North America
surface form: Spanish missions in Florida

founding of St. Augustine in 1565
sovereignState Spanish Empire
startTime 1513
16th century
territoryIncludes Atlantic coast of present-day United States
Gulf Coast of present-day United States
parts of present-day Arkansas
parts of present-day Tennessee
parts of present-day Texas
present-day Alabama
present-day Florida
present-day Georgia
present-day Louisiana
present-day Mississippi
present-day North Carolina
present-day South Carolina
usedFor imperial frontier defense
missionary activity

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

British Army in North America operatedIn La Florida
this entity surface form: Florida
Florida Territory namedAfter La Florida