reductions
Sign in to savethumb|300px|A church was always at the center of the reductions; this one is in Loreto, Baja California Sur.
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8 sectionsContents
- Linguistic ''reducción''
- Spanish West Indies
- North America
- South America
- Spanish East Indies
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|300px|A church was always at the center of the reductions; this one is in Loreto, Baja California Sur.
Reductions (, also called ) were settlements established by Spanish rulers and Roman Catholic missionaries in Spanish America and the Spanish East Indies (the Philippines). The Spanish relocated, forcibly in many cases, indigenous inhabitants (Indians or Indios) of their colonies into urban settlements modeled on those in Spain.