New Kingdom of Granada

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The New Kingdom of Granada was a major Spanish colonial territory in northern South America that served as a political and administrative center before being reorganized into the Viceroyalty of New Granada.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Spanish colonial territory
administrative division of the Spanish Empire
audiencia
administrativeCenter Bogotá
surface form: Santa Fe de Bogotá
capital Bogotá
surface form: Santa Fe de Bogotá
colonialPower Spain
commonLanguage Spanish
continent South America
country Spanish Empire
currency Spanish real
economyBasedOn agriculture
cattle ranching
mining
endTime 1717
establishedBy Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Crown of Spain
surface form: Spanish Crown
followedBy Viceroyalty of New Granada
governmentType monarchy
hadGovernor president of the Audiencia of Santa Fe
includedTerritory present-day Colombia
present-day Ecuador
present-day Panama
present-day Venezuela
judicialBody Audiencia of Bogotá
surface form: Royal Audiencia of Santa Fe de Bogotá
languageOfAdministration Spanish
legalStatus kingdom within the Crown of Castile
legalSystem Castilian law
locatedIn northern South America
mainPort Cartagena, Colombia
surface form: Cartagena de Indias
officialReligion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church
officialTitleInSpanish New Kingdom of Granada self-linksurface differs
surface form: Nuevo Reino de Granada
partOf Council of the Indies jurisdiction
Spanish West Indies
Spanish America
surface form: Spanish colonial America
precededBy Governorate of New Granada
primaryMetropole Castile NERFINISHED
religion Roman Catholicism
reorganizedInto Viceroyalty of New Granada
role administrative center of northern Spanish South America
political center of northern Spanish South America
rulingDynasty House of Bourbon
House of Habsburg
sovereign King of Spain
startTime 1549
timePeriod Early Modern period
surface form: Early modern period
usedLaborSystem African slavery
encomienda
repartimiento

Referenced by (8)

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

Audiencia of Bogotá appliesToJurisdiction New Kingdom of Granada
Guatemala Captaincy General borderedBy New Kingdom of Granada
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada deathPlace New Kingdom of Granada
New Kingdom of Granada officialTitleInSpanish New Kingdom of Granada self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Nuevo Reino de Granada
Viceroyalty of New Granada precededBy New Kingdom of Granada
this entity surface form: New Kingdom of Granada in the Viceroyalty of Peru