in Spain and at the Torre do Tombo National Archive in Portugal.

Signing and enforcement

The Treaty of Tordesillas was intended to solve the dispute that arose following the return in 1493 of Christopher Columbus and his crew, who had sailed under the Crown of Castile, from their first voyage. On his way back to Spain, he first stopped at Lisbon, where he requested another meeting with King John II

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