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Mare clausum (legal
Latin meaning "closed sea") is a term used in
international law to
mention a sea,
ocean or
other navigable body of
water under the...
- Salamanca), that the sea was
international territory,
against the
Portuguese Mare Clausum (closed sea) policy, and all
nations were free to use it for seafaring...
- first,
championed most
famously by John Selden,
promoted the
concept of
mare clausum,
which held that
states could limit or even
close off seas or maritime...
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seafaring trade. The dis****tion was
directed towards the
Portuguese Mare clausum policy and
their claim of
monopoly on the East
Indian Trade. Grotius...
- and sea
routes they discovered.
Spain considered the
Pacific Ocean a
mare clausum—literally a "closed sea" off
limits to
other naval powers—in part to...
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Persian Gulf, and to the Pacific,
transforming it into a
Portuguese mare clausum. He was
appointed head of the "fleet of the
Arabian and
Persian sea"...
- of
influence of the two countries,
establishing the
principle of the
Mare clausum. It was
confirmed in 1481 by the Pope
Sixtus IV, in the
papal bull Æterni...
- Free Sea (
Mare Liberum,
published 1609)
formulated the new
principle that the sea was
international territory,
against the
Portuguese mare clausum policy...
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monopoly on
navigation in the west
African coast,
starting a
Portuguese Mare clausum policy in the
Atlantic Ocean.
Ships began to be
licensed by Portugal...
- well as
trade and
conquest against Muslims and pagans,
initiating a
mare clausum policy in the Atlantic. The king, who had been
inquiring of
Genoese experts...