Spanish Florida (Spanish: La Florida) was the first major European land-claim and attempted settlement-area in northern America during the European Age of Discovery. La Florida formed part of the Captaincy General of Cuba in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and the Spanish Empire during Spanish colonization of the Americas.

2010年2月9日 · Spanish minister Do Luis de Onis and U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams sign the Florida Purchase Treaty, in which Spain agrees to cede the remainder of its province of Florida to the...

2005年9月15日 · Florida officially became a Spanish colony. The Spanish established missions throughout the colony to convert Native Americans to Catholicism. Missions in northern Florida, such as those at St. Augustine and Apalachee (present-day Tallahassee), survived for …

No great treasure troves awaited the Spanish conquistadores who explored Florida. However, their stories helped inform Europeans about Florida and its relationship to Cuba, Mexico, and Central and South America, from which Spain regularly shipped gold, silver, and other products.

Florida was a province of New Spain, an area encompassing Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, and the Caribbean Islands. With such rich colonies in the system, the viceroy regarded Florida as an impoverished backwater not worthy of great financing nor promotion.

Spanish West Florida (Spanish: Florida Occidental) was a province of the Spanish Empire from 1783 until 1821, when both it and East Florida were ceded to the United States. The region of West Florida initially had the same borders as the erstwhile British colony.

Spanish Florida can be defined as the broad geographic region within which Spanish colonial settlements and affiliated Native American groups interacted within a multi-ethnic colonial society at least nominally administered as part of the broader Spanish colonial empire between the 16th and 18th centuries.

From this port and administrative center, colonial Spanish Florida would grow over the course of the following decades, up to and including the short-lived Spanish town of Santa Elena (1566-1587) and three-succesive Veracruz-based Spanish presidios at Pensacola Bay (after 1698).

Florida's Spanish colonial heritage began nearly 100 years before Jamestown in 1513, when Juan Ponce de León landed, and ended when Florida became a territory of the United States in 1821. This bibliography lists some of the published works we hold regarding the events beginning with Spanish attempts to explore Florida.

From the time Pedro Menéndez de Avíles founded St. Augustine in September 1565, Spanish authorities began to extend their reach into the surrounding territories, with St. Augustine serving as the military, administrative, and religious headquarters of Spanish Florida.