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  YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> spain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Spain is a parliamentary monarchy, with a hereditary monarch and a bicameral parliament, the Cortes Generales.
Spain is bound to the east by Mediterranean Sea (containing the Balearic Islands), to the north by the Bay of Biscay and to its west by the Atlantic Ocean, where the Canary Islands off the African coast are found.
Spain became a unified crown with the union of Castile and Aragon and the conquest of Granada in 1492, and the annexation of Navarre in 1515.
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Spain is a constitutional monarchy, with a hereditary monarch and a bicameral parliament, the Cortes Generales or National Assembly.
Spain is, at present, what is called a State of Autonomies, formally unitary but, in fact, functioning as a Federation of Autonomous Communities, each one with different powers (for instance, some have their own educational and health systems, others do not) and laws.
Spain is bound to the east by Mediterranean Sea (containing the Balearic Islands), to the north by the Bay of Biscay (Golfo de Vizcaya) and to its west by the Atlantic Ocean, where the Canary Islands off the African coast are found.
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In the meantime, Spain lost all of its colonies in the Caribbean region and Asia-Pacific region during the 19th century, a trend which ended with the loss of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines and Guam to the United States after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
Spain is considered by some, including a part of Spanish population (aproximately 10% according to the latest surveys), to be a group of nations unified under a single State, much like Belgium, Switzerland or the United Kingdom.
Spain was the first European country to become a unified nation, between 1492 (union of Castile and Aragon) and 1515 (annexation of Navarre).Until 1714, Spain was a loose confederation of kingdoms and statelets, under the same king, until King Philip V removed the autonomous status of the Aragonese crown.
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The Kingdom of Spain is a European country on the south west of that continent.
Spain is a Mediterranean and an Atlantic country.
Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España, unofficially in Galician: Reino de España; Catalan: Regne d'Espanya; Basque: Espainiako Erresuma; Occitan: Regne d'Espanha), is the largest of the three sovereign nations that make up the Iberian peninsula—the others are Portugal and Andorra—located in Southern Europe.
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Spain was occupied by Napoleon in the early 1800s, but the Spaniards rose in arms in a ferocious guerilla war.
Spain and Portugal disagree on the interpretation of the outputs of the Congress of Vienna (1815), which according to Portugal stated the return of the territory to Portugal.
Spain became a unified crown with the union of Castile and Aragon in 1492 and the annexation of Navarre in 1515.
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In the 19th century, the Romantic travellers saw in a backward Spain an exotic country, based on romantic 19th century mythmaking that was confirmed by the instability of the times.
It also had a significant effect on the upcoming elections in Spain, due in part to the ruling government's insistence that the ETA was the prime suspect in the bombings, even as the evidence of Muslim extremist terrorism rapidly emerged from the police investigation and the international press.
Spain is also the location of one of the Roman Catholic church's most important holy cities; Santo Toribio de Liébana, which holds the largest single piece of the true cross.
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The Kingdom of Spain or Spain (and : Reino de España or España; Catalan: Regne d'Espanya; Basque: Espainiako Erresuma) is a country located in the southwest of Europe.
Main article: Politics of Spain Spain is a constitutional monarchy, with a hereditary monarch and a bicameral parliament, the Cortes Generales or National Assembly.
Main article: Economy of Spain Spain's mixed capitalist economy supports a GDP that on a per capita basis is 87% that of the four leading West European economies.
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The Kingdom of Spain or Spain (Spanish: Reino de España or España; Catalan: Regne d'Espanya; Basque: Espainiako Erresuma; Galician: Reino de España; Asturian: Reinu d'España) is a country located in the southwest of Europe.
Spain has been a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary democracy since the Spanish Constitution was approved in 1978.
In the meantime, Spain lost most of its colonies in the Americas during the 19th century, a trend which ended with the loss of Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico after the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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The Treaty of Granada [1] guaranteed religious tolerance toward Muslims while Spain's Jewish population of over 200,000 people was expelled that year.
With the union of Castille and Aragon in 1479 and the subsequent incorporation of Navarre in 1512, the word Spain (España, in Spanish) began being used only to refer to the new unified kingdom and not to the whole of Hispania (the term Hispania is Latin and the term Iberia Greek).
Until the late fifteenth century, Castile and Léon, Aragon and Navarre were independent states, with independent languages, monarchs, armies and, in the case of Aragon and Castile, two empires: the former with one in the Mediterranean and the latter with a new, rapidly growing, one in the Americas.
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 Comarcas of Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Traditionally and historically, some provinces are also divided into comarcas (singular comarca).
A comarca is roughly equivalent to a US "county" or an English district.
1.12.1 Comarcas of the province of A Coruña
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Valencia (Castilian Spanish: Valencia /ba'lenθia/; Valencian: València /va'łεnsia/) is a medium-sized port city (the third largest city in Spain) and industrial area on the Costa del Azahar in Spain.
The matter was the subject of a scathing documentary, broadcast by Spain's second national channel (TVE2) in 2005.
Critics argue that this legislation (which was theoretically designed to protect rural land) is being misused for large urban and industrial developments.
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