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1 day ago · 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 Tartessos ...
1 day ago · 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.
4 days ago · Canary Islands, autonomous community of Spain, established on August 10, 1982, by statute of autonomy and consisting of an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of northwest Africa. The capital is Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
5 days ago · The traditional central region of Castile is divided into two parts: Old Castile in the north and New Castile in the south. Old Castile is known for its historical significance and includes cities such as Burgos, Valladolid, and Palencia. New Castile, on the other hand, encompasses cities like Toledo and Madrid, the bustling capital of Spain.
3 days ago · Maps of the Canary Islands drawn by William Dampier during his voyage to New Holland in 1699 Coat of arms of the Castilian and Spanish Realm of Canary Islands After the conquest, the Castilians imposed a new economic model, based on single-crop cultivation: first sugarcane ; then wine, an important item of trade with England .
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22 hours ago · Coordinates: 37°23′24″N 5°59′24″W. Seville ( / səˈvɪl / sə-VIL; Spanish: Sevilla, pronounced [seˈβiʎa] ⓘ) is the largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula .
3 days ago · Palma, city, capital of the Balearic Islands provincia (province) and comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), Spain, in the western Mediterranean Sea. The city lies on the southwestern coast of the island of Majorca in the centre of 10-mile- (16-km-) wide Palma Bay.
