where is spain exactly located?
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 This impasse was resolved through negotiations between the juntas and the Council of Castile , which led to the creation of a " Supreme Central and Governmental Junta of Spain and the Indies " on September 25 , 1808 . It was agreed that the traditional kingdoms of the peninsula would send two representatives to this Central Junta , and that the overseas kingdoms would send one representative each . These " kingdoms " were defined as " the viceroyalties of New Spain , Peru , New Granada , and Buenos Aires , and the independent captaincies general of the island of Cuba , Puerto Rico , Guatemala , Chile , Province of Venezuela , and the Philippines . " 

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 Under the guise of reinforcing the Spanish armies , 23 @,@ 000 French troops entered Spain unopposed in November 1807 . Even when Napoleon 's intentions became clear the following February , the occupying forces found little resistance apart from isolated actions in disconnected areas , including Saragossa . Napoleon 's principal commander , Marshal Joachim Murat , believed that Spain would benefit from rulers more progressive and competent than the Bourbons , and Napoleon 's brother Joseph Bonaparte was to be made king . After Napoleon convinced Ferdinand to return Spanish rule to Charles IV , the latter was left with no choice but to abdicate , on March 19 , 1808 , in favor of Joseph Bonaparte . 

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 In Spain from 1808 @-@ 1814 the Spanish War of Independence took place amidst a multi @-@ cultural Spain . Spain , at the time , was under the control of King Joseph , who was Napoleon I of France 's brother . Because the nation was under the control of French rule , the Spanish formed coalitions of ethnic groups to reclaim their own political representation , instead of the current French political system in power . 

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 The Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia was a short @-@ lived attempt at establishing a constitutional monarchy , founded by French lawyer and adventurer Orelie @-@ Antoine de Tounens in 1860 . Nominally , the " kingdom " encompassed the present @-@ day Argentine part of Patagonia and a small segment of Chile , where Mapuche peoples were fighting to maintain their sovereignty against the advancing Chilean and Argentine armed forces . However , Orélie @-@ Antoine never exercised sovereignty over the claimed territory , and his de facto control was limited to nearly fourteen months and to a small territory around a town called Perquenco ( at the time mainly a Mapuche tent village ) , which was also the declared capital of his kingdom . 
