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The oldest European settlement in the US is Spanish.

On July 4, 1776, the 13 British colonies signed the Declaration of Independence, the United States was founded .

Logically, customs, culture and language are impregnated with "what is English"; although, currently, the Latino minority is becoming more numerous and is beginning to have a certain importance in the American community. But, as the title of this post says, the oldest European settlement in the US is Spanish. We are talking about Saint Augustine (Florida) .

San Agustín was founded by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés on August 28, 1565 . Forty years before the first English settlement. The reasons for its foundation are not colonial or economic, but military. Spain located a military contingent to stop the attacks of the pirates.

Later this settlement was known for «the false currency » (a literary license that I have allowed myself); It went from hand to hand (Spain, pirates, England and the USA) and nobody kept it. Definitely, in 1821, Spain sold Florida to the US for 5 million dollars that must be with the «Moscow gold «.

An interesting fact:a map of St. Augustine, which shows Sir Francis Drake's attack in 1586 and was made by the Italian cartographer Giovanni Battista Boazio, was auctioned in 2007 for 1.29 million dollars.

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