PRESIDIO

Presidio

A presidio is a fortified base established by the Spanish in areas under their control or expansion like present Italy, Greece, North Africa and North America between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The fortresses were built to protect against pirates, hostile native Americans and enemy colonists. Later in western North America, with independence, the Mexicans garrisoned the Spanish presidios on the northern frontier and followed the same pattern in unsettled frontier regions like the Presidio de Sonoma, at Sonoma, California and the Presidio de Calabasas, in Arizona.

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presidio

Noun

  1. A garrisoned place, especially one that is or was, at one time, under Spanish control.


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