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In the context of the Spanish Empire, a peninsular ({{IPA-es|peninsuˈlaɾ}}, pl. peninsulares) was a Spaniard born in Spain residing in the New World, Spanish East Indies, or Spanish Guinea.WEB, Peninsular, Encyclopedia Britannica,weblink 2021-06-12, Nowadays, the word peninsulares makes reference to Peninsular Spain and in contrast to the "islanders" (isleños), from the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands or the territories of Ceuta and Melilla.An equivalent to the Spanish peninsulares in Portuguese Colonial Brazil was the reinóis, Portuguese people born in Portugal, while Portuguese born in Brazil with both parents being reinóis were known as (wikt::pt:mazombo|mazombos).Spaniards born in the Spanish Philippines were called insular/es or originally filipino/sJOURNAL, Wickberg, E., March 1964, The Chinese Mestizo in Philippine History,weblink Journal of Southeast Asian History, 5, 63, 10.1017/S0217781100002222, 1808/1129, KU ScholarWorks, WEB, Perdon, Renato, December 31, 2013, The origin of Filipino,weblink Munting Nayon, , before "Filipino" now came to be known as all of the modern citizens of the now sovereign independent Philippines. Spaniards born in the colonies of the New World that today comprises the Hispanic America are called criollos (individuals of full Spanish descent born in the New World).Higher offices in Spanish America and the Spanish Philippines were held by peninsulares. Apart from the distinction of peninsulares from criollo, the castas system distinguished also mestizos of mixed Spanish and Amerindian ancestry in the Americas, and mestizos de español (mixed Spanish and native Filipino (Spanish Filipino)), or tornatras (mixed Spanish and Sangley Chinese (Chinese Filipino)) in the Philippines / Spanish East Indies, mulatos (of mixed Spanish and black ancestry), indios (Amerindians / Native Filipinos), zambos (mixed Amerindian and black ancestry) and finally negros. In some places and times, such as during the wars of independence, peninsulares or members of conservative parties were called depreciatively godos (meaning Goths, referring to the "Visigoths", who had ruled Spain and were considered the origin of Spanish aristocracy) or, in Mexico, gachupines.gachupín in the Diccionario de la lengua española Godos is still used pejoratively in the Canary Islands for the peninsular Spanish, and in Chile for Spaniards.BOOK, Diccionario de la lengua española, 2019, Real Academia Española, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, electrónica 23.3,weblink 12 August 2020, es, godo,

See also

• Dominant minority
• Isleños
• Gachupín
• List of governors in the viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
• List of viceroys of New Granada
• List of viceroys of New Spain
• List of viceroys of Peru

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