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The Iberian, or Spanish, Lynx is currently one of the most endangered wild cat species in the world. Between 1985 and 2001, their range declined by 87% and the number of breeding females dropped by more than 90%. By 2000, they existed in two small populations: 70-80 cats in the south of Andalusia and 170-180 individuals in the Sierra Morena.
Nov 8, 2012 · The first use of domestic plants and animals in the Western Mediterranean has been a matter of debate, since there are no native ancestors for these elements. The current paradigmatic position favors an introduction by human migrants who reached southern France and the Iberian Peninsula through seafaring. The settlers would have introduced the whole economic and cultural Neolithic background ...
In this article, western Russia, Turkish Thrace, Iceland, and Cyprus are considered part of Europe. Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, however, are treated in the article on Asia. Thus defined, Europe covers some 4 million square miles (10 million square kilometers), nearly one-fifteenth of the world’s land area.
Oct 3, 2022 · The Iberian peninsula is occupied by Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Gibraltar, and France. Map of the countries on the Iberian peninsula. I know Spain and Portugal are the two most prominent, and most of the time, people only count them as the occupiers of the peninsula. My country occupies 84.3% and Portugal a 15.24%.
Jan 1, 2023 · The Iberian Peninsula covers 582,925 km 2 in the SW corner of Europe, between latitude 36° 01′ and 43° 47′ N and longitude 9° 30′ W and 3° 19′ E. The diversity of landscapes is conditioned by its rough orography, varied lithology, relatively high average altitude (~660 m) as well as its boundary location between two water masses (Atlantic Ocean vs. Mediterranean Sea), two climatic ...
Mar 14, 2019 · A skeleton from an elaborate grave in central Spain about 4,400 years old belonged to a man whose ancestry was 100 percent North African. “That’s crazy,” said David Reich, a geneticist at ...
Isabel I was a strong, even dominant woman. A fanatical defender of the Holy Roman Catholic faith, she was instrumental in imposing religious unity on both her own country and neighboring Portugal. At the same time, she fiercely maintained the juridical independence of Castile and established the laws of her kingdom as the foundation of Latin ...