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  ipedia.com: Valencian Community Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Valencian Community (Valencian/Catalan: Comunitat Valenciana, Spanish (Castilian): Comunidad Valenciana) is an autonomous community (comunidad autónoma in Spanish, or, in Valencian, comunitat autònoma) in the east of Spain.
It is historically known as the Kingdom of Valencia (Regne de València in Valencian, Reino de Valencia in Spanish).
Its languages are Spanish (Castilian) and Valencian, a dialect of Catalan.
www.ipedia.com /valencian_community.html   (290 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Iberian Peninsula   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The last major Muslim stronghold was Granada which was eliminated by a combined Castillian and Aragonese force in 1492, these small states gradually amalgamated over time, until the end of the Napoleonic Wars (including the Peninsular War) in 1815.
At that point the modern position was reached and the peninsula now consists of the countries of Spain and Portugal (excluding their islands - the Portuguese Azores and Madeira Islands and the Spanish Canary Islands and Balearic Islands; and the Spanish possessions of Ceuta and Melilla), Andorra, and the territory of Gibraltar.
IberianatureA guide to the environment, geography, climate, wildlife, natural history and landscape of Iberia
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 Spain, Map and Flag
Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in economic and political power.
border countries: Andorra 63.7 km, France 623 km, Gibraltar 1.2 km, Portugal 1,214 km, Morocco (Ceuta) 6.3 km, Morocco (Melilla) 9.6 km
Its center-right government successfully worked to gain admission to the first group of countries launching the European single currency (the euro) on 1 January 1999.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Iberian Peninsula
Catalan (called Valencian in the Land of Valencia,official recognition)
The small states gradually amalgamated over time, and for a brief period (1580-1640) the whole peninsula was united politically under the Iberian Union.
After that point the modern position was reached and the peninsula now consists of the countries of Spain and Portugal (excluding their islands - the Portuguese Azores and Madeira Islands and the Spanish Canary Islands and Balearic Islands; and the Spanish possessions of Ceuta and Melilla), Andorra, and the territory of Gibraltar.
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