Treaty of Zaragoza

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Demarcation lines according to Spanish-Portuguese agreements in the 15th and 16th centuries.

The Treaty of Saragossa of 1529 (Spanish: Tratado de Zaragoza ; Portuguese: Tratado de Saragoça ) specified the Treaty of Tordesillas concluded between Spain and Portugal in 1494 by including an eastern demarcation line through the Pacific in addition to the already established western line of demarcation through the Atlantic fixed.

With the successful westward voyage of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition in 1519–1521 / 1522, the dispute over the valuable Moluccas Islands in the Pacific became acute. But the Magellan's expedition was very costly and another expedition to the islands from 1525, led by García Jofre de Loaísa and Juan Sebastián Elcano , a participant in the Magellan's expedition, was a failure. The route through the Strait of Magellan and across the Pacific was too dangerous to be a successful trade route, which is why the Spanish Emperor Charles V finally gave up all claims on the Moluccas, which played an important role in the Indian trade as a supplier of spices, and they “for little Money "(350,000Ducats ) to the Portuguese King John III. sold.

With his signature on April 22, 1529, the dividing line between the Spanish and Portuguese spheres of power was set at 297.5 leguas east of the Moluccas .

literature

  • Wolfgang Reinhard : The submission of the world. Global history of European expansion 1415–2015. Beck, Munich 2016, p. 106f.

Individual evidence

  1. Terra X: Magellan's Journey Around Earth - The Adventure of the First Circumnavigation. ZDF, April 13, 2020, accessed on April 11, 2020 .