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EARLY HISTORY OF SPAIN
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The earliest record of hominids living in Europe has been found in the Spanish cave of Atapuerca; fossils found there are dated to roughly 1.2 million years ago.Modern humans in the form of Cro Magnons began arriving in the Iberian Peninsula from nor... |
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ROMAN HISPANIA IN SPAIN
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Hispania was divided: Hispania Ulterior and Hispania Citerior during the late Roman Republic; and, during the Roman Empire, Hispania Taraconensis in the northeast, Hispania Baetica in the south (roughly corresponding to Andalucia), and Lusitania in t... |
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GERMANIC OCCUPATION IN SPAIN
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After the decline of the Roman Empire, Germanic tribes invaded the former empire. Several turned sedentary and created successor kingdoms to the Romans in various parts of Europe. Iberia was taken over by the Visigoths after 410.In the Iberian penins... |
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MUSLIM ERA IN SAPIN
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The Arab Islamic conquest covered dominated most of North Africa by 640 AD. In 711 an Islamic Arab and Berber raiding party, led by Tariq ibn Ziyad, was sent to Iberia to intervene in a civil war in the Visigothic Kingdom. Crossing the Strait of Gibr... |
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DYNASTIC UNION IN SPAIN
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As the Reconquista continued, Christian kingdoms and principalities developed. By the 15th century, the most important among these were the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Aragon. The rulers of these two kingdoms were allied with dynastic famil... |
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IMPERIAL SPAIN
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The Spanish Empire was one of the first modern global empires. It was also one of the largest empires in world history. In the 16th century Spain and Portugal were in the vanguard of European global exploration and colonial expansion and the opening ... |
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SPANISH KINGDOMS UNDER THE HABSBURGS
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Charles V became king in 1516, and the history of Spain became even more firmly enmeshed with the dynastic struggles in Europe. The king was not often in Spain, and as he approached the end of his life he made provision for the division of the Habsbu... |
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THE GOLDEN AGE IN SPAIN
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The Spanish Golden Age was a period of flourishing arts and letters in the Spanish Empire (now Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America), coinciding with the political decline and fall of the Habsburgs (Philip III, Philip IV and Char... |
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SPAIN UNDER THE BOURBONS
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Philip V, the first Bourbon king, of French origin, signed the Decreto de Nueva Planta in 1715, a new law that revoked most of the historical rights and privileges of the different kingdoms that formed the Spanish Crown, specially Crown of Aragon, un... |
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WAR OF SPANISH INDEPENDENCE IN SPAIN
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Spain initially sided against France in the Napoleonic Wars, but the defeat of her army early in the war led to Charles IV's pragmatic decision to align with the revolutionary French. Spain was put under a British blockade, and her colonies for the f... |
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