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 | | This demographic, economic and political decline during the late 17th and early 18th centuries mirrored in general other regions of southern Europe such as Portugal, the Italian states, the Balkans, and much of central Europe, as the rapidly growing global oceanic trade, pioneered by the Iberian countries, was increasingly diverted to north-western Europe. |
 | | In the 19th century, the Romantic travellers saw in a backward Spain an exotic country, based on romantic 19th century mythmaking that was confirmed by the instability of the times. |
 | | At the end of the 19th century, Spain lost all of its remaining old colonies in the Caribbean and Asia-Pacific regions, including Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines, and a large number of Pacific islands to the United States after the Spanish-American War of 1898. |
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