Casa de Contratación

maritime trade house at Seville in Spain during the Age of Exploration
Organization government_agency Q1046537
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Casa de Contratación

Summary

Casa de Contratación is a government agency[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of government_agency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (176 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Casa de Contratación is in the country of Crown of Castile[3].
  • Casa de Contratación is in the country of Spain[4].
  • Casa de Contratación's instance of is recorded as government agency[5].
  • Casa de Contratación's instance of is recorded as casa de contratación[6].
  • Casa de Contratación's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 146681936[7].
  • Casa de Contratación's GND ID is recorded as 4524422-4[8].
  • Casa de Contratación's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n88025085[9].
  • Casa de Contratación's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 13507507x[10].
  • Casa de Contratación's IdRef ID is recorded as 050239791[11].
  • Casa de Contratación's child organization or unit is recorded as Q123302028[12].
  • Casa de Contratación's Commons category is recorded as Casa de Contratación[13].
  • Casa de Contratación's has part is recorded as Q123302028[14].
  • +1503-01-20T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Casa de Contratación[15].
  • Casa de Contratación was dissolved in +1790-00-00T00:00:00Z[16].
  • Casa de Contratación's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04f7_5[17].
  • Casa de Contratación's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ko20231193018[18].
  • Casa de Contratación's location of formation is recorded as Seville[19].
  • Casa de Contratación's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Casa de la Contratación[20].
  • Casa de Contratación's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX117427[21].
  • Casa de Contratación's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0015516[22].
  • Casa de Contratación's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Casa-de-Contratacion[23].
  • Casa de Contratación's FAST ID is recorded as 637004[24].
  • Casa de Contratación's operating area is recorded as Spanish Empire[25].
  • Casa de Contratación's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as casa-de-contratacion[26].
  • Casa de Contratación's openMLOL author ID is recorded as 99563[27].

Body

Founding

+1503-01-20T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Casa de Contratación[15]. Its location of formation is recorded as Seville[19].

Operations

Casa de Contratación's child organization or unit is recorded as Q123302028[12].

Dissolution

Casa de Contratación was dissolved in +1790-00-00T00:00:00Z[16].

Why It Matters

Casa de Contratación ranks in the top 2% of government_agency entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (176 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  7. [9] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  15. [17] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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