Tordesillas

[ tawr-the-see-lyahs ]

noun

1. a town in NW Spain, SW of Valladolid: treaty (1494) defining the colonial spheres of Spain and Portugal.

Example Sentences

Those three powers — Spain, Britain and the United States — consciously tried to reorder their worlds for, they hoped, generations to come through formal agreements — the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and the San Francisco conference that drafted the U.N. charter in 1945.

From Salon

To settle just where that line actually lay, Spanish and Portuguese diplomats met for months in 1494 in the tiny city of Tordesillas for high-stakes negotiations, producing a treaty that split the non-Christian world between them and officially launched the Iberian age.

From Salon

Local journalist Ellen Tordesillas told the BBC Ms Ressa is "admired as one of those who stood up to Duterte".

From BBC

This podcast was produced for Studio 360 by Rosalind Tordesillas.

From Slate

In late April, Tordesillas learned that she, too, had been named a Matrix conspirator by The Manila Times.

From New York Times