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Captaincy General of Cuba

1607–1898 Spanish possession in the Caribbean

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Captaincy General of Cuba was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire created in 1607 as part of Habsburg Spain's attempt to better defend and administer its Caribbean possessions. The reform also established captaincies general in Puerto Rico, Guatemala and Yucatán.

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“Captaincy General of Cuba” enters the record as 1607–1898 Spanish possession in the Caribbean. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Captaincy, General and Cuba can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Captaincy General of Cuba” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.