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... their name -Vandalusia, modern Andalusia, in Spain. The Byzantines established an enclave, Spania, in the south, with the intention of reviving the Roman empire throughout Iberia. Eventually, however, Hispania was reunited infer Visigothic rule. ... [leer más]
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... Suevi and Vandals, together with the Sarmatian Alans crossed the Rhine and raveged Gaul until the Visigoths drove them into Iberia that same year. The Suevi established a kingdom in what is todaymodern Galica and northern Portugal. As the western empire disintegrated, the social and economic base became greatly simplifiel: but even in modified form, the successor regimes maintained many of the institutions and laws of the late empire, including Christianity. TheAlans' allies, the Hasdingi Vandals, established a kingdom in Gallaecia, too, occupying largely the same region but estending farther south to the Duero river. TheSilingi Vandals occupied the region that still bears a form of ... ... [leer más]
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... Local leaders were admitted into the Roman aristocaratic class. Hispania served as a granary ofr the Roman market, and its harbors exported gold, wool, olive oil, ans wine. Agricultural production increased with the introduction of irrigation projects, some of which remain in use. Emperors Trajan, TheodosiusI, and the philosopher Seneca were born in Hispania. Christianity was introduced into Hispania in the 1 st century CE and it became popular in the cities in the 2nd century CE. Most of Spain's present languages and religion, and the basis of its laws, originate from this period. The weakening of the Western Roman Empire's jurisdiction in Hispania began in 409, when the Germanic ... ... [leer más]
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... The two main historical peoples of the peninsula were the Iberians and the Celts. The Iberians inhabited the Mediterranean side from the norheast to the southeast. The Celts inhabited the Atlantic side, in the north, center (Celtiberian), northwest and suthwest part of the peninsula. Basque occupied the western area of the Pyrenees mountain range and adjaacent areas. In the south of the peninsula appeared the semi-mythical city of Tartessos (c.1100 BC), whose flourishing trade in items made of gold and silver with the Phoenicians and Greeks is documented by Straboa and the Book of Solomon. Between about 500 BC and 300 BC, the seafaring Phoenicians and Greeks foundedtrading colonies ... ... [leer más]
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Archaeological research at Atapuerca indicates the Iberian Peninsula was populated by hominids 1.2 million years ago.[10] Modern humans first arrived in Iberia,from the north on foot,about 32,000 years ago. The best known artifacts of these prehistoric human settlements are the famouspaintings in the Altamira cave of Cantabria in northern Iberia, which were created about 15,000 BCE by cro-magnons. Archaeological and genetic evidence strongly suggests that the Iberian Peninsula acted as one of several major refugia from which northern Europe was repopulated following the end of the last ice age. ... [leer más]
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... strongest kingdom in Europe and the leading world power for a century and a half. Continued wars and other problems eventually led to a diminished status. The Napoleonic invasions of Spain led to chaos, triggering independence movements that tore apart most of the empiere and left the country politically unstable. Prior to the Second World War, Spain suffered a devastating civil war and came under the rule of an authoritarian government, whose rule oversaw a period of stagnation but that finished with a powerful economic surge. Eventually democracy was peacefully restored in the form of a parliamentary constitutional monarchy. In 1986, Spain joined the European Union, experiencing a ... ... [leer más]
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... word spy, meaning "to forge metals". Therefore i-spn-ya would mean "the land where metals are forged". HISTORY: (main article: History of Spain).- The Iberian peninsula enters written records as a land populated largly by the Iberians, Basques an Celts. After an arduos conquest, the peninsula came under the rule of Rome. During the early Middle Ages it came under Germanic rule but later, it was conquered by Moorish invaders from North Africa. In a process that took centuirs, the small Christian kingdoms in the north gradually regained control of the peninsula. The last Moorish kingdom fell in the same year columbus reached the Americas. A global empire began which saw Spain become the .. ... [leer más]
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... It may also be a derivation of the Punic "Ispanihad", meaning "land of rabbits" or "edge", a reference to Spain's location at the end of the Mediterranean; Roman coins struck in the region from the reign of Hadrian show a female figure with a coney at her feet. There are also claims that "España" derives from the Basque word Ezpanna meaning "edge" or "border", another reference to the fact that the Iberian peninsula constitutes the suthwest of the European continent. The humanist Antonio de Nebrija proposed that the word "Hispania" evolved from the Iberian word Hispalis, meaning "city of the western world". Jesús Luis Cunchillos argues that the roo ... [leer más]
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The true origins of the name "España" and its cognates "Spain" and "Spanish" are disputed. The ancient Roman name for Iberia, "Hispania", may derive from poetic use of the term "Hesperia" to refer to Sain, reflecting the Greek perception of Italy as a "western land" or "land of the setting sun" (Hesperia, in Greek) and Spain, being still further west, as "Hesperia ultima". ... [leer más]
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... Spain is a democracy organised in the form of a parliamentary government under a constitutional monarchy. It is a developed country with the twelfth largest economy in the world by nominal GDP, and very high living standards, including the tenth-highest quality of life index rating in the world, as of 2005. It is a member of the United Nations, European Union, NATO, OECD, and WTO. ... [leer más]
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... Because of its location, the territory of Spain was subject o many external influences since prehistoric times and through to its dawn as a country. Spain emerged as a unified country in the 15th century, following the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs and the completion of the reconquest, or "Reconquista", of the Iberian peninsula in 1492. Conversely, it has been an important source of influence to other regions, chifly during the modern era, when it became a global empire that has left a legacy of over 500 million Spanish speakers today, making it the world's second most spoken first language. ... [leer más]
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... Spanish territory also includes the Baleary Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the Africancoast, and two autonomous cities in NorthAfrica, Ceuta and Melilla, that border Morocco. Furthermore, the town of Llivia is a Sapanish exclave situated inside French territory. With an area of 504,030 square kilometrres (194,610 sq mi), it is the second largest country in Western Europe and the European Union after France, and the fourth largest country in Europe after Russia, Ukrainea and France. ... [leer más]
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