Spanish East Indies

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Spanish overseas territory former colony historical political entity

The Spanish East Indies was a vast Spanish colonial territory in Asia and the Pacific, centered on the Philippines and administered from Manila from the 16th to the late 19th century.

Aliases (1)

Philippine Islands (historical) ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Spanish overseas territory → former colony → historical political entity →
administeredBy	Spain →
appliesToTerritorialJurisdiction	Caroline Islands → Guam → Luzon → Mariana Islands → Marshall Islands NERFINISHED → Micronesia → Mindanao → Moluccas → Palau NERFINISHED → Philippines → Sabah → parts of present-day Indonesia →
capital	Manila →
colonialPower	Crown of Castile →
country	Spanish Empire →
currency	Philippine peso → Spanish real →
dissolvedFollowing	Spanish–American War →
endTime	1898 → late 19th century →
establishedAfter	expeditions of Ferdinand Magellan → expeditions of Ruy López de Villalobos →
establishedBy	Miguel López de Legazpi →
governedFrom	Manila →
hasGovernorship	Governor-General of the Philippines →
historicalRegion	Micronesia → Southeast Asia →
linkedTo	Viceroyalty of New Spain →
locatedIn	Asia → Pacific Ocean →
namedAfter	East Indies →
officialLanguage	Spanish →
partOf	Spanish West Indies and East Indies administrative system → Spanish colonial empire →
primaryColony	Philippines →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
sovereignState	Kingdom of Spain →
startTime	1565 → 16th century →
territoryCededBy	German–Spanish Treaty (1899) → Treaty of Paris (1898) →
territoryCededTo	Germany → United States →
tradeRoute	Manila–Acapulco galleon trade →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Insular Cases doctrine ("Philippine Islands (historical)") →	appliesTo
Council of the Indies →	appliesToJurisdiction
Siege of Manila (1762) →	countryAtTime
Nueva Ecija →	formerProvinceOf
Fermín Jáudenes →	governedTerritory
Governor-General of the Philippines →	jurisdiction
First Philippine Republic →	precededBy