What country claimed florida before july 17, 1821

The Answer Is Spain 

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Spain, whose claim to "La Florida" dated back to Ponce de Leon's discovery in 1513, thought it was done with the place when it traded the territory to Great Britain in 1763 for control of Havana, Cuba, after that country defeated France in the Seven Years War.

Germany excerted from the union