General Captaincy
Administrative division of the Spanish and Portuguese empires, underneath a viceroyalty From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Captaincy General was a division of a viceroyalty in Spanish or Portuguese colonial administration. Captaincies general were established districts that were under threat from foreign invasion or attack from indigenous peoples. Their governors were the Captains general.
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Spanish captaincies general, on account of their independence and distance from the crown, became virtual viceroyalties, having a direct relationship with the king and the Council of the Indies, in Madrid.[Note 1]
Notes
- According to historian Antonio Jimenez Estrella, of Department of Modern History and Latin at the University of Granada, Spain,[incomplete short citation] from the perspective of institutional history, of power and of power elites, the Captaincy General was, at least during the Mendoza period (16th century), a body territorial, political, governmental and, to some extent, fiscal, endowed with powers that went far beyond military power that will be presupposed in principle.
See also
- Captain-major
- Captain general
- Captaincy
- Captaincies of the Spanish Empire
- Captaincies of the Portuguese Empire
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