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At one time or another, Spain controlled and settled all the land in North America from southern Mexico north to northern California and all of what is now the southern US from California to Florida.

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in the 1700s, the Spanish claimed most of the interior united states (but then they were unclaimed territory), and called it Louisiana.

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