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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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... 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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... 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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... 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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