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Eagle City Council and the International Sea-Campus Mare Nostrum have coordinated for tomorrow Thursday, August 4 at 20:00 pm in the Auditorium and Congress Palace "Infanta Elena" in the XVI Edition of the Lecture "Looking to the Sea", the second of the talks scheduled for this August.
The paper, entitled "The Kingdom of Murcia in Naval History: men and ships for the Royal Navy," run by Juan Jose Baena Sanchez, director of the Department of Naval History, University of Murcia and the Spanish Armada.
Baena Sanchez: Doctor of Philosophy (Geography and History), Master in Information Science, Professor of American History at the University of Murcia, coordinator of relations with the Ministry of Defence (Vice President for Institutional Relations), director of the Chair of Naval History, vice president of the Spanish Association of Americanists, editor of the Nav @ merica, author of several papers and publications on print culture in America and editor of several books like "The Mediterranean and America."
Currently involved in research projects I + D + i on recovery history and heritage during the Spanish naval modern and contemporary age, the result of those recent studies on "The documentary heritage of the Navy and its dissemination in society knowledge, "" The disclosure of cultural heritage using the semantic web: a methodological approach "or" The galleys of the Spanish monarchy: a fundamental element of naval power during the sixteenth century. "
The Kingdom of Murcia in naval history: men and ships for the Royal Navy
Throughout the history of Spain, there have been many connections to the Kingdom of Murcia has had with facts related to the sea.
Therefore, this conference is to adhere to the Modern Age and, in particular, the eighteenth century, which is one of the most troubled centuries, but also more exciting in the naval history of Spain.
During these hundred years, the Kingdom of Murcia was a very active presence in major European and American naval events, playing an important role as a result of the creation in the first half of the century, the Naval Department of the Mediterranean and the construction of the Real Arsenal Shipyard Cartagena.
This Arsenal, along with those of Cadiz, Ferrol and Havana, formed the largest and most powerful navy that never had the Spanish monarchy, and it helped thousands of men from the so-called Arsenal, especially carpenters, blacksmiths, teachers rigging, etc..
Most of those working in the Arsenal in Cartagena were these lands and, shipyard, built, among many others, over 20 ships of the line and as many frigates or xebecs.
They were also some hundreds of Murcia that as officers, or the entire crew, belonged to the Corps and Marine battalions.
What is not widely known is that this region contains one of the training centers and military science major at the time: The Academy of Midshipmen of Cartagena.
This institution, oasis teaching and Enlightenment, formed more than 700 applicants were later very good naval officers, and some even leading figures in the history of Spain.
The next meetings of the "XVI Edition of the Lecture" Looking to the Sea "will be:
Tuesday August 9: "Archaeological and Historical Heritage of Eagles" by the Eagles municipal archaeologist, Juan de Dios Hernández García.
Thursday August 11 (Closing): "Tourism in times of crisis," the president of the Bureau of Tourism and Economy of the Circle of Murcia, Francisco Pacheco Jesús Méndez.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas
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