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intricatecaprice · 11 months

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Capitán Armando Salazar's Spain:

(circa War of Spanish Succession)

One of the things I didn't know when I first started writing fanfic for Capitán Salazar was that technically, Spain wasn't really a single unified country in his lifetime.

If you had asked them where they were from, the men of La María Silenciosa would have been more likely to tell you they were 'Castilian', or 'Aragonese', or any number of the smaller regions across the country.

To give a brief history, from the 700s-1500s AD, Spain was called Al-Andalus, and was under the control of Muslim states. You can still see a great deal of architecture from this time period especially in the South of Spain, the most famous being Alhambra palace (Granada):

But Christianity started to spread rapidly from the 1400s onwards, and by 1502 all Muslims were ordered to either convert or leave (this royal edict is still criticised today, with many debating if the edict was largely responsible for the eventual decline of Spain's economy and population).

Over the centuries, the cultures of each Spanish region became so significantly different from one another that it is not unlikely to have caused tension aboard Salazar's ship.

Southern regions retained strong Moorish influences due to their geographical proximity to Morocco, but this kept them divided culturally and politically from their Northern neighbours.

Catalonia and Aragon (North East) hated the taxes they'd been forced to pay to the new king Philip V in the early years of the war of Spanish Succession. They fought against their neighbours when the King attempted to send Castilian soldiers through their territory. The King punished those who rebelled by taking their homes and lands away - leaving them with nothing.

All of this would definitely have played heavily into the personal identity of each of the men aboard La María Silenciosa: not all of them would necessarily have shared the same language, manners, or way of looking at themselves and the world around them.

It's interesting to me, therefore, that the colour the men of La María Silenciosa wore was grey.

Not the yellow and red stripes of the Catalonian flag. Not the blue and gold coat of arms of King Philip V. No, the colour is deliberately neutral. As if by donning the grey, every man aboard La María Silenciosa is acknowledging that no matter their differences, under Capitán Salazar's command they are one.

#historical spain #capitán armando salazar #potc 5 #pirates of the carribean: dead men tell no tales #potc headcanons #i've always kind of headcanoned that Guillermo Lesaro's family are generational farmers from near the french border #Gui is all too aware of his uneducated 'lower' class roots #miguel magda 100% has royalty in his bloodline #and he knows it #but let's hope for his sake it's not Hapsberg blood #i've been playing with the idea that bracero's grandmother was an italian who first settled in the Aragon region after she married #and I headcanoned that Capitán Salazar's grandfather escaped a plague in Valencia to move to Cádiz as a boy in the 1650s #a move which permanently affected the Salazar family #since Cádiz was the main launching pad of the Spanish Armada

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allthingseurope · 3 months

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Nerja, Spain (by Yuliya)

#nerja #spain #europe #travel #travel blog #europe travel #architecture #old town #historic

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ego-meliorem-esse · 4 months

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I love your art and style, its amazing! Sorry for bothering, but I was wondering how India or Spain would look in your style! Thank you :3

So many thoughts on this mf, yet so little time...

As for India, I got a WIP I am fairly happy with, but thought I'd share Antonio before cus it would just take too long to draw both and share lol

I think i've shared some hcs abt Spain but i can't really remember what I said.

Anyway I prefer the cunning and manipulative Antonio without the happy go lucky attitude. Maybe as a facade but even then I got some issues with that.

#hetalia #ask meli #hws spain #historical hetalia #myart #my art #antonio fernandez carriedo #it was fun drawing this mf but ill probably change some details lol

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goldenstarprincesses · 7 months

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Imagine nations having something really embarrassing happen to them. It could result in a death or simply be a whacky dare that they are forced to do.

They go on with their life thinking "wow, sure am glad no one saw that happen!"

Only to be flipping through the channels one night, some years or even decades later, to find out an entire Unsolved Mysteries episode about it. In horror, they quickly Google it. Only to find out an entire Reddit page dedicated to it, hundreds of YouTube videos, and TikTok's with millions of views.

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ask18thcenturyrussia · 7 months

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#hetalia #historical hetalia #aph prussia #hws prussia #aph france #hws france #aph spain #hws spain #bad friend trio #blood #the first time in years that i drew tonio

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barelyanartblog · 2 months

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*Casually triggers millennia old co-workers' ptsd to check out dogs*

#hetalia #historical hetalia tumblr dni ive decided the inaccuracies make me sexy😌#comics #hws america #hws germany #hws austria #hws hungary #hws prussia #hws france #hws england #hws romano #hws spain #hws portugal #fanart #idk how striped polos work #my art

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life-spire · 11 months

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Barcelona, Spain (by AXP Photography)

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#barcelona #spain #europe #travel #wanderlust #explore #historic architecture #architecture #curators on tumblr #li_destinations #travel photography

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frankfosterphotography · 5 months

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vaults,

Barcelona Cathedral, Barcelona, Spain.

#barcelona spain #architecture #historic #vaults #monochromatic #photographers on tumblr #original photography #cell phone photography #frank foster

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mothmiso · 2 months

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Real Alcázar de Sevilla (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) by Robert Schaub

#mudéjar art #archway #garden #tiles #fruit trees #spain #andalusia #andalucia #seville #historic buildings

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arc-hus · 7 months

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Community Space, Larrabetzu, Spain - Behark

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sherrylephotography · 6 months

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My photography @sherrylephotography

May 2023

Historic place Sant Pau hospital Barcelona Spain

Modernsime complex, a masterpiece by the architect Lluis Domènech i Montaner.

#original photography on tumblr #sant pau hospital #barcelona #spain #historic place #archetecture #gimp gimc #vacation spain

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allthingseurope · 9 months

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Madrid, Spain

#madrid #spain #vertical #travel #architecture #historic #europe #europe travel

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canisalbus · 7 months

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what part of italy are machete and vasco from? not their birthplace since from what i've seen you're still workshopping that. where do they live? i assume rome?

In the 1500's setting Vasco lives and was born in Florence, his family has lived there for centuries. Machete was born in Sicily, was taken to Naples to serve as an apprentice and ended up living and working in Rome (and more specifically today's Vatican city, which as you may know has been an independent country since 1929 but wasn't back then). They first met when they were both studying in Venice in their late teens/early twenties.

I think in the modern au they live together somewhere in Florence.

#characters travelling this extensively at the time #from one end of the country to another #may not be very realistic but it's more fun to include a variety of interesting historical locations #let me be greedy and self indulgent for a moment #(not to mention that Italy wasn't unified until late 1800's and was instead made of various states kingdoms and duchies #that didn't always get along with each other that well and were culturally and linguistically diverse #and some of them were actually ruled Spain and Austria for example)#I say this as lovingly as possible but the history of Italian peninsula as a whole is just a real clusterfuck #I feel like I still haven't wrapped my head around it adequately to be explaining any of this to you #but please be patient with me I promise I'm trying my best #answered #anonymous

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marmartea · 7 days

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