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Cadastre of Ensenada

ad_hlab_min — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 18:15:26 +0000

Web portal about the Cadastre of Ensenada in the Portal de Archivos Españoles. Along with a presentation on the purpose of the Cadastre, it includes interesting information such as a copy of the Royal Decree, the cadastral documents, the territorial division and a biography of the Marquis of Ensenada. In addition, there is a transcription of the general responses and a search engine for localities, from which you can access digitised copies of the responses of all the municipalities of the Crown of Castile (except the Canary Islands, Basque Provinces and the Foral Kingdom of Navarre).

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Population maps from the Map Library of the National Geographic Institute (IGN)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:06 +0000

Digital repository of population maps from the Map Library of the National Geographic Institute (IGN)

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Idea of a Christian-Political Prince

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:40 +0000

Diego de Saavedra Fajardo wrote his work “Idea de un príncipe político-cristiano” in a truly decisive context in the struggle for European hegemony. His experience in the main European courts allowed him to come into contact with the high politics of the old continent and, consequently, he wrote this work with an instructive character for the young kings of the Hispanic Monarchy. In this particular fragment, Fajardo seems to refer to the population problem suffered by the peninsula due to demographic shortages. Already at the end of the 16th century, the extraordinary efforts to maintain the empire had caused a demographic recession in Castile, which was compounded by other factors arising from the complicated 17th century. The population count was indeed one of the most important muscles of the monarchies, because in addition to ensuring tax collection, it allowed armies to be enrolled in accordance with the population’s capacity. Faced with this precarious population situation, the France of Louis XIV, which was a kingdom, had 20 million inhabitants, which enabled the Sun King to build the largest armies in Europe. The demographic problem in Spain would be tackled by the Bourbon dynasty in the 18th century, facilitating new repopulation projects both by state initiative and by private individuals (nobility).

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