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3 days ago · Built in the 1630s, in the middle of the Thirty Years’ War, at a time when Spain’s military fortunes were beginning to decline, it was designed to reaffirm the greatness of the Spanish monarchy.
4 days ago · Spain - Reconquista, Moors, Visigoths: Human fossils in Spain belong to modern humans (Homo sapiens), the Neanderthals (H. neanderthalensis), and even earlier members of the human lineage, possibly H. erectus or H. heidelbergensis. A large number of bones have been recovered from caves at Atapuerca, Burgos, which come from sediments that are at ...
2 days ago · The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for "reconquest") or the reconquest of al-Andalus was the successful series of military campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Umayyad Caliphate.
6 days ago · Brief history of Leonesism. Thus, Leonesism is a cultural, social and political movement that defends the recognition of the Región Leonesa, independent of Castile. We find the movement's modern origins between the years 1900 and 1934, when Miguel Bravo Guardia, Miguel Díez Canseco and José Eguiagaray promoted Leonese cultural regionalism in ...
5 days ago · The idea of imposing taxes on landowners, however, originally came from the need to distribute equitably the expenses of the state that otherwise fell on the most disadvantaged by taxing the consumption of essential goods. The Spanish origins of the single tax therefore preceded physiocratic theory, and we encounter it already in the Rapsodia.
2 days ago · The swastika is a symbol with many styles and meanings and can be found in many cultures. The appropriation of the swastika by the Nazi Party is the most recognisable modern use of the symbol in the Western world.
4 days ago · Spanish language, Romance language (Indo-European family) spoken as a first language by some 360 million people worldwide. In the early 21st century, Mexico had the greatest number of speakers, followed by Colombia, Argentina, the United States, and Spain.
