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A fact from General Archive of the Indies appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 December 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Christopher Columbus's journal is housed in the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, in a building by Juan de Herrera that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/December.

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An archive that the Spanish Wikipedia listed as Consulados de Sevilla y Cádiz, 16th-19th centuries, I had translated as separate Consulados, one for Seville another for Cadiz, thus with two archives. The entry has been corrected to read as above. Perhaps without any more knowledge than I have. Two archivess? Or were the Consulados combined in the administration that engendered these archives, to produce one archive? --Wetman 01:48, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"Consulados" back then were merchant guilds and not diplomatic entities as we recognize them now. The first one was established in Sevilla and had the monopoly of trade with the Americas until the one in Cádiz was formed (ca. 17th century). Therefore these are two archives from two different entities, they just happen to be stored in the same place nowadays. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ | Esperanza 02:33, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hah! well, there you are! Angel-like, I feared to tread. So "Consulados of Seville and of Cádiz" as I had it originally to keep them separate, might be more correct, in the English Wikipedia, after all, without the "y" that suggests a label for a single archive. --Wetman 03:40, 13 December 2005 (UTC).[reply]

help me find my history

please help me find the history of my town pinamungajan, it is located in midwest of CEBU, Philippines... thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.127.254.134 (talk) 12:20, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Potential sources

I've been trying to find (English) sources for this article and other Spanish monument articles that remain largely unsourced. I don't have time to personally work on all of them, but I just want to note this recent full-length reference, at least partially accessible online, which is about the archive and its history: The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781–1844 by Byron Ellsworth Hamann (2022). Among other topics covered, for example, Chapter 2 seems to cover the genesis of the archive's collection, Chapter 3 is about the former Lonja building's conversion, etc. Hopefully it would be useful here; if I come across any other useful refs, I'll note them here too. R Prazeres (talk) 22:03, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]