Venezuela Province
Province of Caracas | |||||||||||||||
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| 1527–1864 | |||||||||||||||
Provincia de Venezuela y las Guayanas | |||||||||||||||
| Status | Province of the Spanish Empire | ||||||||||||||
| Capital | Santa Ana de Coro - (1527 - 1546) El Tocuyo - (1546 - 1577) Caracas - (from 1577) | ||||||||||||||
| Common languages | Spanish | ||||||||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism Lutheran Protestant envoys sent on behalf of the Welser family (1528-1546) | ||||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy (before 1811) Republic (after 1811) | ||||||||||||||
| King (before 1811) President (after 1811) | |||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Spanish colonization | ||||||||||||||
• Royal decree | 1527 | ||||||||||||||
| 1528 | |||||||||||||||
• Concession revoked, end of Klein-Venedig | 1546 | ||||||||||||||
| 1717 | |||||||||||||||
| 1777 | |||||||||||||||
• Dissolved after Federal War | 1864 | ||||||||||||||
| Currency | Spanish colonial real | ||||||||||||||
| ISO 3166 code | VE | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Venezuela | ||||||||||||||
The Venezuela Province (or Province of Caracas) was a province of the Spanish Empire (from 1527), of Gran Colombia (1824–1830) and later of Venezuela (from 1830), apart from an interlude (1528–1546) when it was contracted as a concession by the King of Spain to the German Welser banking family, as Klein-Venedig.