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Tiempo y Espacio

versión impresa ISSN 1315-9496

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CARDOZA SAEZ, Ebert. Fortification and defence Maracaibo bar in the province of Merida. Tiempo y Espacio [online]. 2015, vol.25, n.64, pp.114-129. ISSN 1315-9496.

During the centuries of Spanish domination in America, fortification and defense of the colonies overseas was one of the most pressing tasks of the Crown, whose main objective was to protect the domains purchased from the constant raids by pirates and privateers, as well as hold off  the frequent ethno-social uprisings in the Ocean Sea territories aquende him. In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, the “Key” located at the mouth (or bar) of Lake Maracaibo, overlooking the Caribbean, to the port of San Antonio de Gibraltar, as lakeside Key of Merida and The Province Shout, was the most important defensive position of a thriving and promising inter-region on the border between the New Kingdom of Granada and the Province of Venezuela, which aroused the greed of mercenary pirates, on one hand, and privateers in the service of the powers enemy of Spain, on the other. In this paper, an approach to the study of the work undertaken by the Spanish Crown in the fortification and defense of the Maracaibo Bar as one of the key points of the  maritime  domain  in  the  complex  defensive  system  board  Spanish Venezuelan Caribbean is attempted.

Palabras clave : naval history; fortification and defense; Province of Mérida; Maracaibo.

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