EARLIEST oral traditions suggest that Maynila was founded as a Muslim principality as early as the 1250s. Rajah Sulayman was ...

Contending that Spain “has struggled constantly to fuse together a fractured soul,” Tremlett documents the region’s early history as a nexus where Christianity, Islam, and Judaism coexisted ...

But Spain, which had ceded the territory to Napoleon, maintained that it did not include the area known as West Florida, which stretched from the Perdido River across southern Alabama, Mississippi ...