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Tordesillas
[ tawr-the-see-lyahs ]
noun
- a town in NW Spain, SW of Valladolid: treaty (1494) defining the colonial spheres of Spain and Portugal.
Example Sentences
Those three powers — Spain, Britain and the United States — consciously tried to reorder their worlds for, they hoped, generations to come through formal agreements — the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and the San Francisco conference that drafted the U.N. charter in 1945.
Local journalist Ellen Tordesillas told the BBC Ms Ressa is "admired as one of those who stood up to Duterte".
This podcast was produced for Studio 360 by Rosalind Tordesillas.
In late April, Tordesillas learned that she, too, had been named a Matrix conspirator by The Manila Times.
Ellen Tordesillas, a longtime investigative journalist at Vera Files, a nonprofit media organization that also works with Facebook to fact-check in the Philippines, said a particularly nasty bout of trolls emerged after Facebook pulled down the hundreds of pages.
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