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Audiencia, Spanish for a hearing or audience, may refer to:
- Audiencia, a type of royal court in late medieval Spain and Spanish courts among Spain's colonies in the Americas
- Audiencia Real, a historical Spanish appellate court
- Audiencia Nacional of Spain, a Spanish court created in 1977
Usage examples of "audiencia".
And inasmuch as the duties are paid in Acapulco on those who are sold there, because of the inconvenience of paying them in Manila, we order that the president and auditors of our royal Audiencia of Filipinas provide that it be so observed and executed.
Audiencia of Manila rate the amount of what the mates on the ships shall exact in the port of Acapulco for the guard of boxes, barrels, and other articles of merchandise.
Order of Santiago, my governor and captain-general of the province of Guatemala, and president of my royal Audiencia resident therein, or the person or persons in charge of its government: as you have understood, the repartimientos and encomiendas of Indians which the kings my forbears and I have been accustomed to grant to various persons in that country, in consideration of their services, have been for two generations.