Spanish Empire

Spain, officially known as the Spanish Monarchy or the Kingdom of the Spains, is a European nation.

Early history
Spain was unified in 1492, after kings Isabella and Ferdinand of Castile and Aragon, named the Catholic Monarchs, conquered the last muslim state in the Iberian Peninsula, the Emirate of Granada. Simultaneously, explorer and admiral Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World, giving birth to the Spanish Empire, which started with the colonisation of the Caribbean. It was followed by the conquest of powerful pre-Columbian polities in Central Mexico and the Pacific Coast of South America.

After Isabella's death, Ferdinand conquered the Kingdom of Navarre in 1512, kingdom which would be permanently annexed in 1524. In 1516, at the time of Ferdinand's death, his nephew Charles I inherited the Spanish Crown's lands at the same time as he inherited his Austrian family's Burgundian and German lands as Charles V, leading to a massive empire that would last until his abdication in 1556, when he split the empire in two: The Spanish possessions and Burgundian holdings were given to his son Philip II, while the Archduchy of Austria and the Holy Roman Empire was given to his brother Ferdinand.

List of Kingdoms
The Spanish Empire is composed by a series of crowns, kingdoms, duchies, and principalities. These are: