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Hace 1 día · Spain, country located in extreme southwestern Europe. It occupies about 85 percent of the Iberian Peninsula, which it shares with its smaller neighbor Portugal. Spain is a storied country of stone castles, snowcapped mountains, vast monuments, and sophisticated cities.
- History
Spain - Reconquista, Moors, Visigoths: Human fossils in...
- Revolution, Republic, 1868-1873
Spain - Revolution, Republic, 1868-1873: The revolution that...
- Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia, 1276–1479
Spain - Reconquista, Kingdoms, Unification: In the late...
- The Caliphate of Córdoba
Spain - Caliphate, Cordoba, Reconquista: One of the first...
- Climate
Spain - Mediterranean, Arid, Temperate: Spain is...
- Castile, Aragon, Unification
Spain - Castile, Aragon, Unification: Alfonso VII subverted...
- Housing
Spain - Housing, Architecture, Culture: During the Franco...
- The Almoravids
Spain - Almoravids, Reconquista, Moors: The Almoravid ruler...
- History
Hace 3 días · The history of Spain dates to contact between the pre-Roman peoples of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula made with the Greeks and Phoenicians. During Classical Antiquity, the peninsula was the site of multiple successive colonizations of Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans. Native peoples of the peninsula, such as the ...
Hace 4 días · The term is used by modern historians for the former Islamic states in modern-day Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain, and Southern France. The name describes the different Muslim states that controlled these territories at various times between 711 and 1492.
Hace 6 días · Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in economic and political power.
8 de may. de 2024 · Felipe VI (born January 30, 1968, Madrid, Spain) is the king of Spain from 2014. Felipe was born in the latter years of the Francisco Franco regime, as the dictator’s health was declining and the government was taking halting steps in the direction of greater political and economic liberalization.
Hace 2 días · Spanish Empire. For the use of the imperial title in medieval Spain, see Imperator totius Hispaniae. The Spanish Empire, [b] sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy [c] or the Catholic Monarchy, [d] [5] [6] [7] was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.
13 de may. de 2024 · Spain. Major Events: Battle of Alarcos. Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa. Battle of Río Salado. Siege of Toledo. Key People: Alfonso VII. El Cid. Ferdinand II. Isabella I. Top Questions. What was the Reconquista? Who was involved in the Reconquista? When was the Reconquista? Was the Reconquista a crusade?
