Spain

If you're looking for the Crown of Castile, you've come to the right place. 
The largest country on the Iberian peninsula at the beginning of Varna was the Crown of Castile. In Part 2 of Episode X, they united with the Crown of Aragon to form the Kingdom of Spain. 
On the Tatsumaki score ranking, "Spanish" is Level 7.
== The Crown of Castile ==
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=== The Hundred Years' War ===
In 1448, an Anglo-French war was starting to turn in England's favour, so when France called for help, both Castile and Scotland answered. However, Navarra separated Castile and France by land, so Castile invaded them, and Aragon quickly declared war on Castile and France as a result. However, Aragon had rushed into battle unprepared, so Castile saw success on all fronts except Murcia. Even Zaragoza was within 10 miles of the Castilian lines when a rebellion broke out in Aragon's Italian provinces. With that, Aragon surrendered in 1451, and the Treaty of Barcelona was signed.
England then called on Portugal, but the latter had good relations with both England and Castile, and sought to maintain both. The kings of Portugal and Castile signed a secret deal, whereby Portuguese troops could reach Toledo completely unopposed, and Castile would grant Galicia to Portugal, forming Portugalicia. That way, Castile would no longer be required to support the French. Castile's departure from war was well timed, only a month before an earthquake occurred in Navarra, killing French troops that had been sent to Castile.
=== The First Maghrebi War ===
In 1459, a marriage brought together the Crowns of Castile and Aragon into a personal union. Then two years later, Portugalicia joined them in completing the Reconquista by invading Granada and their Moroccan ally in 1462. Granada surrendered in a year, but Morocco did not back down, so in 1464, Castile and Portugalicia invaded Morocco itself, capturing and sacking the capital city of Fez. This forced Morocco's hand, and with the Treaty of Ceuta, Castile annexed all of Granada, the city of Sidi Ifni, and also Melilla and the surrounding areas.
=== The New World ===
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=== Contention with the Mamluks ===
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== The Great Mediterranean War ==
=== Second Maghrebi War ===
When the Maghrebi League went to war, Castile, Portugalicia and Aragon decided to take on the Moroccans once again. Initially the Iberian armies saw a lot of success, spreading through northern Morocco. As Rabat fell to the Iberian advance in late May 1510, the cities of Tlemcen and Oran both fell under siege until Mamluk relief arrived in September. The Iberians saved face by besieging the Moroccan capital of Fez, but once again the siege was lifted by the Moroccans and Mamluks in February 1511. Soon the Iberian armies in Rabat were cut off from their supply lines as the Moroccans and Mamluks advanced towards Tangier and Ceuta. In July 1511, both cities fell to the Maghrebi League, and the Iberian armies were pushed out of Africa. A later Portugalician invasion would see little success.
=== Second Iberian War ===
In March 1513, the Mamluk navy transported the Moroccan army to Gibraltar, beginning the war to the Iberian homeland. For three months Moroccan troops scrambled across southern Spain, until they reached the city of Granada in early June, and the Emirate of Granada was restored. Only 3 days later, France joined the war independently, to satisfy their revenge after their defeat in 1451. They quickly advanced through Navarra and then turned east to capture Zaragoza, setting up a vassal state. July 1513 began with the English entry into the war against France.
Castile's attempt to reconquer Malaga ended in failure, and Morocco consolidated Granada's territory. At the same time, September saw the end of the Crown of Aragon, as French troops reached the east coast, and began following it down to Valéncia and Alicante, besieging both. In early 1514, Córdoba was lost to Moroccan and Granadino armies, and the two French sieges also resulted in Castilian defeats. The Franco-Aragonese army then began an advance towards Toledo, which was halted at La Mancha in July by Castilian troops and mercenaries. The invaders were pushed back to Alicante.
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With France out of the way, Castile annexed Aragon into their realm, finally unifying all of Spain on November 16th, with the Union of Valladolid. Spain then joined the League of Varna, sending a few forces to aid the final offensives in Anatolia and Egypt. Spain also attended the Treaty of Cairo to oversee the dismantling of the Mamluk Caliphate.
== The Kingdom of Spain ==
=== Back to the New World ===
Spain's main priority after the war was the exploration of the New World. In 1519, Spain sent Captain Ferdinand Magellan to search for the fabled Spice Islands. Two years later, this crew reached the Strait of All Saints (known to us as the Strait of Magellan), before sailing through the Pacific and reaching China. In the next year (1522), the crew reached mainland Spain once again, and Magellan was sent home to rest after his voyage. Towards the end of 1523, another Spanish crew discovered the delta to a river (Mississippi), but did not set up a colony there until early February 1526, called New Seville.
March 1526 brought about a dispute between the colonies of New Spain, New Algarve, and Sardinian Brazil, based on territorial claims. When their overlords heard the news, their leaders went to the Pope, who drafted the Treaty of Tordesillas - a formal agreement to divide the New World between the three powers.
=== Fighting France, Again ===
Spain ended their neutrality in European affairs in 1535. At the time, the Italic Union was caught up in a succession war, and their attempted invasion of Provence had led to a French landing on Sardinian-controlled Corsica. Therefore, the Sancarlists asked Spain to enter the war and distract France, which they did.
The Western Mediterranean War was a brief conflict, where Spain sent small forces into south-western France, also taking the opportunity to invade the Kingdom of Barcelona and the Principality of Andorra. After integrating these two states, Spain and France signed a white peace, and both of them stopped fighting. France also stopped their aid to Provence, which satisfied the Sancarlists' aims.
The neutrality between Spain and France lasted for thirty years, by which time the latter was caught up in the War of the Leagues, and therefore was not fully prepared for Spain's sudden incursion in 1566. Over the next four years, Spain crossed the Pyrenees and invaded south-western France for a second time, as well as sending a naval force to Provence. During the winter of 1570-1, the two sides maintained a ceasefire, until the Peace of Prague negotiations, where Spain annexed the Pyrenees, and Provence became a Spanish vassal state.
Category:Varna Countries