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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 ...
Al-Andalus [a] ( Arabic: الأَنْدَلُس) was the Muslim -ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula. The term is used by modern historians for the former Islamic states in modern-day Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain, and Southern France. The name describes the different Muslim [1] [2] states that controlled these territories at various times between ...
35th millennium BC – Beginning of the Neanderthal Châtelperronian cultural period, emanating from Southern France. 33rd millennium BC – Beginning of the modern human Aurignacian culture in Europe. 30th millennium BC – modern humans make way into the Iberian peninsula, coming from Southern France. Here, this genetically homogenous ...
Hispania was the Roman [a] name for the Iberian Peninsula and the provinces. Under the Roman Republic, Hispania was divided into two provinces: Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior. During the beginning of the Roman Empire, Hispania Ulterior was divided into two new provinces, Baetica and Lusitania, while Hispania Citerior was renamed ...
Gibraltar ( / dʒɪˈbrɔːltər / jih-BRAWL-tər, Spanish: [xiβɾalˈtaɾ]) is a British Overseas Territory [a] and city [7] located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean ( Strait of Gibraltar ).
Iberian moths represent about 4,454 species. The moths (mostly nocturnal ) and butterflies (mostly diurnal ) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera . This is a list of moth species which have been recorded in Portugal , Spain Andorra , Gibraltar and parts of southern France (together forming the Iberian Peninsula ).
The Iberian wolf ( Canis lupus signatus, [2] [3] [1] [4] or Canis lupus lupus, [5] Spanish and Portuguese: Lobo ibérico ), [6] is a subspecies of grey wolf. It inhabits the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, which includes northwestern Spain and northern Portugal. It is home to 2,200-2,700 wolves which have been isolated from mixing with ...
