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1 day ago · Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...
4 days ago · The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for "reconquest" [a]) or the reconquest of al-Andalus [b] 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. [4] .
2 days ago · Valencia ( Spanish: [baˈlenθja] ⓘ, officially in Valencian: València [vaˈlensia]) [a] is the capital of the province and autonomous community of the same name. It is the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 807,693 inhabitants (2023) within the Ciudad de Valencia [1] and 1,582,387 inhabitants (2021) within metropolis of the ...
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1 day ago · A village in Andalusia, Spain, showing housing typical of the region. Spain is a storied country of stone castles, snowcapped mountains, vast monuments, and sophisticated cities, all of which have made it a favoured travel destination. The country is geographically and culturally diverse. Its heartland is the Meseta, a broad central plateau ...
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2 days ago · The Cagots ( pronounced [ka.ɡo]) were a persecuted minority who lived in the west of France and northern Spain: the Navarrese Pyrenees, Basque provinces, Béarn, Aragón, Gascony and Brittany. Evidence of the group exists as far back as 1000 CE. The name they were known by varied across the regions where they lived.
1 day ago · Demographics of Spain. Pop. As of 1 January 2024, Spain had a total population of 48,592,909 [2]. The modern Kingdom of Spain arose from the accretion of several independent Iberian realms, including the Kingdoms of León, Castile, Navarre, the Crown of Aragon and Granada, all of which, together with the modern state of Portugal, were successor ...
2 days ago · Morocco is a Northern African country, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, between Algeria and the annexed Western Sahara. It is one of only three nations (along with Spain and France) to have both Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines. [citation needed] A large part of Morocco is mountainous.
