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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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... 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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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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