It's the shorter name of the agency, which indeed also operated in America > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp

It's the shorter name of the agency, which indeed also operated in America > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition > The inquisition expanded to other domains under the Spanish Crown, including Southern Italy and the Americas, while also targeting those accused of alumbradismo, Protestantism, witchcraft, blasphemy, bigamy, sodomy, Freemasonry, etc.