ILHAS CANÁRIAS - CANARIAE INSULAE - CANARY ISLANDS

Guanches: the native persons of Canary islandshttp://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%C3%A1rias#mediaviewer/File:Pueblo_Chico_Guanchen2.jpg

Portugal rediscover Fortunatae Insulae (before 1336), knew by Phoenicians and Romans. But Pope Clement VI, from one more corrupted phase of French undercontrol, begun with Clement V marionette of Philippe IV of France and them atrocities against Christians like the members of the order of Knights Templar. The Pope have tried to justify the power of himself and the incredible indulgences in 1343. The diplomatic answer by Afonso IV king of Portugal was the follow in 1345:

«(...) os nossos naturais foram os primeiros que acharam as mencionadas Ilhas [Afortunadas].

E nós, atendendo a que as referidas ilhas estavam mais perto de nós do que qualquer outro Príncipe e a que por nós podiam mais comodamente subjugar-se, dirigimos para ali os olhos do nosso entendimento, e desejando pôr em execução o nosso intento mandámos lá as nossas gentes e algumas naus para explorar a qualidade daquela terra.

Abordando às ditas Ilhas se apoderaram, por força, de homens, animais e outras coisas e as trouxeram com muito prazer aos nossos reinos.

Porém, quando cuidávamos em mandar uma armada para conquistar as referidas Ilhas, com grande número de cavaleiros e peões, impediu o nosso propósito a guerra que se ateou primeiro entre nós e El-rei de Castela e depois entre nós e os reis Sarracenos. (...)»

The brutality against Guanches come later from Castile after 1402, with a great resistance from them that finish in 1496. Before Henry the Navigator influence the Portuguese control until 1459 with the expulsion of Portuguese by the revolt of Guanches and by the influence oof Castilian forces. In 1479 Portugal and Castile signed the Treaty of Pece of Alcáçovas-Toledo: Isabella was recognized as Queen of Castile while Portugal reached hegemony in the Atlantic Ocean with the exception of the Canary Islands, «The lands discovered and to be discovered, found and to be found (...) and all the islands already discovered and to be discovered, and any other island which might be found and conquered from the Canary islands beyond toward Guinea.»

Centuries later, in 2014 December, Spain wanted dispute the Portuguese archipelago of Ilhas Selvagens sea influence for it ambitions over sea space with trade off with Portuguese ambitions of control of sea in this zone of Atlantic Ocean.


Spanish ambitions are linked to the search of sources of energy like petroleum and gas by REPSOL with trade off with the environment in this area.


http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2014/12/28/actualidad/1419791095_360167.html


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