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2 days ago · Pausanias in the 2nd century AD says that the Gauls "originally called Celts", "live on the remotest region of Europe on the coast of an enormous tidal sea". Posidonius described the southern Gauls about 100 BC. Though his original work is lost, later writers such as Strabo used it. The latter, writing in the early 1st century AD, deals with ...
3 days ago · When Charles finally arrived, the Spanish locals resented how his retinue was mostly composed of noblemen from the Low Countries – and that he barely spoke Castilian. Nor did Charles – or Carlos in Spanish – help his cause when he appointed William of Croÿ, cousin of his adviser, as Archbishop of Toledo, the most important sea in Spain.
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5 days ago · For foreigners as contrasting as Voltaire and Ernest Hemingway, Spain was different: having once been the hegemonic power in Europe, its ‘absolutism’, imperialism and adherence to a brand of fanatical Catholicism condemned it to the periphery in the course of the 17th century; it was, wrote Hemingway, the one country where the Reformation ...
2 days ago · The French colonial empire ( French: Empire colonial français) comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the " First French colonial empire ", that existed until 1814, by which time most of it had been lost or sold ...
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5 days ago · Teams from the Autonomous University of Barcelona have been excavating the site of the Iron Age settlement at Tossal de Baltarga, near Spain's border with France, since 2011.
4 days ago · Although Alexandrian Jews had already migrated to Rome, a notable early event in the history of the Jews in the Roman Empire was the 63 BCE siege of Jerusalem. Jews have had a significant presence in European cities and countries since the fall of the Roman Empire, including Italy , Spain , Portugal , France , the Netherlands , Germany , Poland ...
5 days ago · Spain did not fully conquer Africa due to various factors, including their own internal conflicts and the destabilizing civil war at the end of the 1930s. This made Spain lose its position as a world power and unable to keep or obtain new colonies during the “Scramble for Africa” in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
