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Spain (Spanish: España, [esˈpaɲa] ), or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa. It is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union member state. Spanning across the majority of the Iberian Peninsula, its territory also includes the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla in Africa. Peninsular Spain is bordered to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; to the east and south by the Mediterranean Sea and Gibraltar; and to the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. Spain's capital and largest city is Madrid; other major urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza, Seville, Málaga, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and Bilbao. In early antiquity, the Iberian Peninsula was inhabited by a mixture of Iberian and Celtic tribes, along with other local pre-Roman peoples. With the Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, the province of Hispania was established. Following the Romanization and Christianization of Hispania, the fall of the Western Roman Empire ushered in the inward migration of tribes from Central Europe, including the Visigoths, who formed the Visigothic Kingdom centred on Toledo. In the early eighth century, most of the peninsula was conquered by the Umayyad Caliphate, and during early Islamic rule, Al-Andalus became a dominant peninsular power centred in Córdoba. Several Christian kingdoms emerged in Northern Iberia, chief among them Asturias, León, Castile, Aragon, Navarre, and Portugal; made an intermittent southward military expansion, known as the Reconquista, repelling Islamic rule in Iberia, which culminated with the Christian seizure of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada in 1492. The dynastic union of the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon in 1479 is often considered the formation of Spain as a country. During the Age of Discovery, Spain pioneered the colonization of the New World, and formed one of the largest empires in history. The Spanish Empire reached a global scale spreading across all continents, and the need for financing, along the transatlantic trade, underpinned the rise of a global trading system fueled primarily by precious metals. The 18th century was marked by extensive reforms and, notably, the Bourbon reforms centralized mainland Spain. In the 19th century, despite the victory in the Peninsular War, the following political divisions between liberals and absolutists eventually led to the independence of most of its American colonies. Political instability reached its peak in the 20th century with the Spanish Civil War, giving rise to the Francoist dictatorship that lasted until 1975. With the restoration of democracy under the Constitution of Spain and its entry into the European Union, the country experienced an economic boom that profoundly transformed it socially and politically. Since the Siglo de Oro, Spanish art, architecture, music, poetry, painting, literature, and cuisine have been influential worldwide, particularly in Western Europe and the Americas. As a reflection of its large cultural wealth, Spain has one of the world's largest numbers of World Heritage Sites, It is the world's second-most visited country and the most popular destination for Erasmus students. Its cultural influence extends to over 600 million Hispanophones, making Spanish the world's second-most spoken native language and the world's most widely spoken Romance language.Spain is a secular parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with King Felipe VI as head of state. It is a major advanced capitalist economy, with the world's fifteenth-largest economy by nominal GDP (fourth of the European Union) and the fifteenth-largest by PPP. Spain is a member of the United Nations, the European Union, the eurozone, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a permanent guest of the G20, and is part of many other international organizations such as the Council of Europe (CoE), the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), the Union for the Mediterranean, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Source: Wikipedia (en)
Narratives set in Spain 54
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Los elegidos
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Quién cuidará de tí
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Run Me to Earth
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Loba Negra
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Coma
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La congiura di Cortés
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El especialista de Barcelona
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Tutto quello che avremmo potuto essere io e te se non fossimo stati io e te
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Venganza en Sevilla
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The Art of Flying
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Te daré la tierra
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Periodisme? Permetin! La vida i els articles d'Eugeni Xammar
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Kinky Gazpacho
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The Family of Pascual Duarte
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The Island of Eternal Love
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Winter in Madrid
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¡Viva la muerte! Mito e realta della guerra civile spagnola, 1936-39
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Roldán, ni vivo ni muerto
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Verdugos y torturadores.
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Diccionario enciclopédico ilustrado del flamenco
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El húsar
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The Dangerous Summer
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Monsignor Quixote
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The Holy Innocents
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War so much war
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Revenge of the Generals
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Goya
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Pabellón de reposo
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Man’s Hope
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Spansk sommer
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Grand Canary
Works about Spain 23
- Ensayo de un catálogo de periodistas españoles del siglo XIX
- Voyage en Espagne
- Idearium español
- Por tierras de Portugal y de España
- L'Espagne
- Travels through Spain in the years 1775 and 1776
- Characteristical Views of the Past and of the Present State, of the People of Spain and Italy
- Migratory movements and diasporic positionings in contemporary Hispano- and Catalano-African literatures
- Départ (Gautier)
- Recuerdos y bellezas de España
- Manual del librero español e hispanoamericano
- Wild Spain (ESPANA AGRESTE)
- Viage de España
- Invitadas : fragmentos sobre mujeres, ideología y artes plásticas en España, 1833-1931
- Autogestion et anarcho-syndicalisme : Analyse et critiques sur l'Espagne 1931-1990
- Histoire des persécutions religieuses en Espagne. Juifs-Mores-Protestants
- Et l'anarchisme devint espagnol
- les anarchistes expropriateurs
- Chronique de la révolution espagnole. Union communiste (1933-1939)
- Les anarchistes espagnols
- Los incontrolados. Chronique de la Colonne de fer. Espagne 1936-1937.
- La CGT-SR et la Révolution espagnole : juillet 1936-décembre 1937, de l'espoir à la désillusion
- Peintures romanes espagnoles
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- El mundo subterráneo
- Energía Z
- Fantasmas siderales
- Entre Marte y Júpiter
- Separación asteroidal
- El conquistador del mundo
- La isla de otro mundo
- El ejército sin alma
- Mensajes de muerte
- Nosotros, los marcianos
- El doble fatal
- Cosmoville
- Ataúdes blancos de Oberón
- La ruta perdida
- ¡Nos han robado la Luna!
- Rutas ignoradas
- Niebla alucinante
- La hierba del cielo
- Un cadáver en el aerolito
- La diosa de venusio
- El planeta de nadie
- Regresaron dos muertos
- Las huellas conducen... al infierno
- La barrera de las sombras
- El planeta maldito
- Asesino interplanetario
- Extraños en la Tierra
- Marionetas humanas
- Cuatro a Mercurio
- Los aventureros de Júpiter
- La nave de plata
- La onda invencible
- Eratom 225
- Donde empieza el límite
- Bases submarinas
- La espacionave del terror
- Nieblas blancas
- Rebelión en la galaxia
- Los hombres del Más Allá
- Bloqueo en el espacio
- Un mensaje en el espacio
- Descohesión
- La muerte azul
- Viaje hacia la muerte
- Venus llama a la Tierra
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