Why did Spaniards listen to their autistic German king, when he told them to build their capital city in a hot desert in the middle of Iberia, even though they had a sea-spanning Empire?
The nafri yearns for the mountains and scorns the open sea, he was simply acquiescing to the wishes of his spanish subjects
Should have put in Cartagena or Barcelona desu
>>18464939Madrid sits almost exactly in the geographic center of the Iberian Peninsula. That mattered a lot for governing a composite monarchy like Spain, where travel times from court to different regions (Castile, Aragon, Andalusia, etc.) had to be balanced. Central placement made administration slightly more efficient in a pre-railway world. It also had very little entrenched local aristocracy or powerful municipal factions. Unlike Toledo, Seville, or Valladolid, Madrid was relatively politically "neutral". That made it easier for the crown to avoid being dominated by regional elites and to keep direct control. Security was another factor. Coastal capitals like Lisbon or Barcelona were exposed to naval attack, especially in an era when Spain was fighting France, England, and the Ottomans. An inland capital reduced vulnerability to sudden raids or blockades.
>>18464939>Why did they listen to their kingBecause that's how monarchies work by definition
>>18464939because Spaniards are knuckle dragging fucking retards
>>18464939I. «SPANIARD» IS A DEROGATORY TERM; THE DEMONYM OF SPAIN IS «SPANISH».II. FELIPE II: GERMANIC? FELIPE II WAS SPANISH.III. FELIPE II SETTLED THE COURT IN MADRID, BECAUSE IT IS EQUIDISTANT TO ALL POINTS OF THE PENINSULA.
>>18464939>not ToledoSoulless
>>18465761Seething.
>>18465781they are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. sub-saharan africa tier
>18465767>I. «SPANIARD» IS A DEROGATORY TERM; THE DEMONYM OF SPAIN IS «SPANISH».what type of autism is this?
>>18465105>we might get blockaded blocking our access to the sea>let's put our capital city in a place without geographical access to the sea
>>18465767you sound fucking autistic
>>18464939I mean, the older capital was Toledo and it only a few kilometers from Madrid, there wouldn't have been any significant difference between the two. If any, Toledo would actually been smaller of a city because it is more mountainous than Madrid, thus harder to build shit there and to expand.The only way in where Toledo would have been better than Madrid is of the Tagus River was made navigable, like Philip II wanted, thus having a direct connection between it and Lisboa, thing that never happened, anyway.Another alternative would have been Sevilla, which actually was the bureaucratic "capital" of the New World as basically everything that happened in the overseas colonies was administer from there, but that would mean putting the interest of the colonies over the european ones, thing that maybe a Trastamara could have done, but not an Habsburg.
>>18465090>BarcelonaAnything in the Crown of Aragon would have been completely out of the question in the Habsburg era.
>>18465767Based cumgenius dabbing on jeets
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>>18465768Nah, Toledo is perfect as a small city with huge importance
>>18465885block what access to the sea, Mohamet?
>>18464939>in a hot desertMadrid is neither particularly hot nor in a desert.
>>18465090>>18466172>Cartagena or BarcelonaNot even in the Trastamara era. Those cities were becoming irrelevant by the time of the Catholic Monarchs were ruling and the Crown of Aragon was already weakened by wars and the black plague that Ferdinand had to use the army of Castile to fight France in the Italian Wars.If they were going to pick a port for capital, it would have been one location in the Atlantic coast, not the Mediterranean one, where it could have invaded by France or any other power of the region.
