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Wikipedia: The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed at Tordesillas, 7 June 1494, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands (off the west coast of Africa). This line of demarcation was about halfway between the Cape Verde Islands (already Portuguese) and the islands discovered by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage (claimed for Spain), named in the treaty as Cipangu and Antilia. The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the west to Spain.
![[Moluccas Dutch map (north at right)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Blaeu_Moluccae_Insulae_Celeberrimae_s.jpg "Moluccas Dutch map (north at right)")
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![[Early Tordesillas lines in South America (1495–1545)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Early_Tordesillas_lines_s.jpg "Early Tordesillas lines in South America (1495–1545)")
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