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Seville

Port, Spain.

About Seville

Municipality of Andalusia, Spain.1

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Trade routes

Shipped throughHavana to Seville silver (Bahamas channel)Seville was an end of the havana to seville silver (bahamas channel) route.2Shipped throughPotosi silver to SevilleSeville was an end of the potosi silver to seville route.3Shipped throughVeracruz to Seville silver (New Spain fleet)Seville was an end of the veracruz to seville silver (new spain fleet) route.4

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q8717 (Seville)
  2. Graulau J., Ownership of mines and taxation in Castilian laws, from the middle ages to the early modern period, Continuity and Change 26(1): 13-44 Continuity and Change (Cambridge University Press)
  3. City of Potosi added to List of World Heritage in Danger UNESCO World Heritage Centre
  4. Global Perspectives on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro US National Park Service

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Pictures: Timna in de Negevwoestijn; rotspartij "de zuilen van Salomo", Poll, Willem van de / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Potosi, Bolivia, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)); Earth Observations taken by the Expedition 15 Crew, NASA JSC (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)).