viceroyalty
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A viceroyalty was an entity headed by a viceroy. It dates back to the administration of the Spanish-held territories in Southern Italy from the early fifteenth century onwards, most notably by the year 1428, the term “vice rex” was used to refer the Viceroy of Sicily in the official documents of the Crown of Aragon, which in the sixteenth century it passed through Catalan as “visrei” to later pass to Spanish as “visorey”.
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- British Empire
- India
- Ireland
- France
- Portuguese Empire
- Russian Empire
- Spanish Empire
- Europe
- America and Asia
- Controversy over whether the American Viceroyalties were Colonies or Provinces
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A viceroyalty was an entity headed by a viceroy. It dates back to the administration of the Spanish-held territories in Southern Italy from the early fifteenth century onwards, most notably by the year 1428, the term “vice rex” was used to refer the Viceroy of Sicily in the official documents of the Crown of Aragon, which in the sixteenth century it passed through Catalan as “visrei” to later pass to Spanish as “visorey”.
==British Empire== ===India=== India was governed by the Governor-General and Viceroy of India from 1858 to 1947, commonly shortened to "Viceroy of India". ===Ireland=== Ireland was governed by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who was the representative of the British Monarchy in Ireland from the Williamite period until independence, was also called the Viceroy of Ireland.
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