Spanish Florida

The Tequesta (also Tekesta, Tegesta, Chequesta, Vizcaynos) Native American tribe, at the time of first European contact, occupied an area along the southeastern Atlantic coast of Florida.

Spanish Florida refers to the Spanish territory of La Florida, which was the first major European land claim and attempted settlement in North America during the European Age of Discovery.

The Mayaimi (also Maymi, Maimi) were a Native American people who lived around Lake Mayaimi (now Lake Okeechobee) in the Belle Glade area of Florida from the beginning of the Common Era until the 17th or 18th century.

The Seminole Wars, also known as the Florida Wars, were three conflicts in Florida between the Seminole—the collective name given to the amalgamation of various groups of Native Americans and African Americans who settled in Florida in the early 18th century—and the United States Army.

The Calusa (/kəˈluːsə/ kə-LOO-sə) were a Native American people of Florida's southwest coast.

(For the Peruvian economist, see Hernando de Soto Polar.) Hernando de Soto (c. 1495 – May 21, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (Florida, Georgia, Alabama and most likely Arkansas), and the first documented European to have crossed the Mississippi River.

Fort Matanzas National Monument was designated a United States National Monument on October 15, 1924.

The Raid on St. Augustine was a military event during the Anglo-Spanish War in which the Spanish settlement of St.

The West Florida Controversy refers to two border disputes that involved Spain and the United States in relation to the region known as West Florida.

The Castillo de San Marcos is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States (Castillo San Felipe del Morro in San Juan, Puerto Rico is older).

The Florida Parishes (Spanish: Parroquias de Florida, French: Paroisses de Floride), the eastern side of Mississippi River which is also known as the Northshore region or the Northlake region, are eight parishes in the southeastern part of the U.

Fort San Juan was a late 16th-century fort built by the Spanish under the command of conquistador Juan Pardo in the native village of Joara, in what is now Burke County, North Carolina.

Jonathan Dickinson (1663–1722) was a Quaker merchant from Port Royal, Jamaica who was shipwrecked on the southeast coast of Florida in 1696, along with his family and the other passengers and crew members of the ship.

Arapaha (also Arapaja or Harapaha) was a Timucua town on the Alapaha River in the 17th century.

The Ibi, also known as the Yui or Ibihica, were a Timucua chiefdom in the present-day U.

The González-Alvarez House, also known as The Oldest House, is a historic home in St.

The Northern Utina, also known as the Timucua or simply Utina, were a Timucua people of northern Florida.

The Saturiwa were a Timucua chiefdom centered on the mouth of the St.

Fort Mose Historic State Park (originally known as Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mosé) is a U.

The Jungle Prada Site (also known as Jungle Mound, Narvaez Site or Anderson Site) is an archaeological Tocobaga mounds and historical Narváez expedition site, and a city bayside park, in St.

The Spanish Coquina Quarries are an historic site in St.

De Soto National Memorial, in Manatee County 5 miles (8 km) west of Bradenton, Florida, commemorates the 1539 landing of Hernando de Soto and the first extensive organized exploration by Europeans of what is now the southern United States.

San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park is a Florida State Park in Wakulla County, Florida organized around the historic site of a Spanish colonial fort (known as Fort St. Marks by the English and Americans), which was used by succeeding nations that controlled the area.

The Battle of Flint River was a failed attack by Spanish and Apalachee Indian forces against Creek Indians in October 1702 in what is now the state of Georgia.

Fort Barrancas (1839) or Fort San Carlos de Barrancas (from 1787) is a United States military fort and National Historic Landmark in the former Warrington area of Pensacola, Florida, located physically within Naval Air Station Pensacola, which was developed later around it.

The Potano (also Potanou or Potavou) tribe lived in north-central Florida at the time of first European contact.

The Apalachee massacre was a series of raids by English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their Indian allies against a largely pacific population of Apalachee Indians in northern Spanish Florida that took place during Queen Anne's War in 1704.