How To Use viceroyalty In A Sentence
- The name Peru was pervasive during the colonial period and was used to denominate the larger sections of the powerful viceroyalty of Lima.
- This grandeur was the legacy of the ‘enlightened despotism’ of the viceroyalty.
- The period of his Viceroyalty was what is generally called uneventful -- that is, it was chiefly given up to such schemes as promoted peace and prosperity, and did not witness any extension of our dominions. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
- The authors explain how the Bourbon reforms of the late eighteenth century transformed the viceroyalty of New Spain into one of the most efficient tax regimes in colonial history.
- Beginning in the second half of the eighteenth century, the population in the Peruvian viceroyalty began to slowly increase after epidemics brought by the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century had killed thousands of people.
- Buenos Aires, capital of a viceroyalty established in 1776, came into its own during the 19th century as the centre of music publishing, opera, and concert life in Spanish South America.
- More than 21% of all assaults reported in the viceroyalty were cases of wife-beating (58 cases in a sample of 275 crimes).
- Most cases in our sample occurred in the rural areas of Santa Fe / Mariquita and Tunja / Pamplona, the viceroyalty's central and northeastern provinces and two of its most densely populated regions.
- However, when the Spanish authorities realised what was happening, they declared the entire area of what is now Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia as a viceroyalty, and made Buenos Aires the capital.
- The name Peru was pervasive during the colonial period and was used to denominate the larger sections of the powerful viceroyalty of Lima.