Search results for "Gibraltar" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Franco planned to invade both Portugal and Gibraltar, together with the Nazis. Portugal continued to export tungsten and other goods to both the Axis ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 20:38, 22 December 2022
- ** Calpe (modern Gibraltar) ** Gunugu ** Thenae ** Tipassa ==Language and literature== |left|250px|The Phoenicians are credited with spreading ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- Canary Islands as a naval base, in the event of Gibraltar being invaded from the Spanish mainland. Opposition to Franco's regime did not ...28 KB (4,064 words) - 19:14, 25 November 2023
- * The World and its peoples: Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Gibraltar. 1963. New York: Greystone Press. * Carrick, Noel. 1988. Andorra. New York, NY: ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- of the ocean are Europe, the Strait of Gibraltar (where it connects with the Mediterranean Sea, one of its marginal seas, and, in turn, the Black ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- * Garrison Library in Gibraltar, 1793. * Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University, 1924. * House of Commons Library, Westminster, London ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 22:31, 25 October 2022
- (in the way that the Principality of Monaco and Gibraltar are). Many cultivated fields and small farms characterize its landscape both in the north ...28 KB (4,022 words) - 08:35, 8 March 2023
- coast of the Mediterranean from the Straits of Gibraltar to Greece (with the exceptions of the Spanish controlled trading city of Oran and strategic ...28 KB (4,326 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- On March 20, 1969, Lennon and Ono were married in Gibraltar and his marriage immediately assumed a place in his life far surpassing that of The ...28 KB (4,313 words) - 20:50, 1 May 2024
- Atlantic Ocean and Portugal to the west, Gibraltar to the south, the Mediterranean ... the Mediterranean side of the strait of Gibraltar, known as Plazas de soberanía ...115 KB (17,210 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- felt the island could potentially be the "Gibraltar of the West" because Key West guarded the northern edge of the 90 mile wide Straits ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- first recognized overseas unit was chartered in Gibraltar in 1908, followed quickly by a unit in Malta. Scouts Canada became the first overseas dominion ...39 KB (5,942 words) - 22:31, 20 November 2023
- they scheduled simultaneous operations against Gibraltar and Greece for the following January. However, in December 1940, German ambition in the Mediterranean ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern European colonial empires. It spanned almost six centuries, from the capture ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- [[File:Battle of Gibraltar 1607.jpg|thumb|400px|Naval warfare: The explosion of the Spanish flagship during the Battle of Gibraltar, 25 April ...69 KB (10,326 words) - 23:04, 22 April 2023
- 1713. A further Franco-Spanish effort to recover Gibraltar was unsuccessful. Minorca was ceded to Spain in the peace treaty. ===Whitehaven=== ...40 KB (5,862 words) - 06:46, 25 July 2023
- Once known as the Gibraltar of the West, the defense of Bermuda remains the responsibility of the British government. Until the American Revolutionary ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
- to fight in southern Spain, mainly in Cádiz and Gibraltar with the rank of Second Captain of light infantry. He continued to fight Portugal on the side ...40 KB (6,434 words) - 05:43, 10 May 2024
- Spanish Succession (1701–1714), Spain ceded Gibraltar, Minorca, and Nova Scotia to the British and agreed to give Britain the Asiento, a valuable exclusive ...38 KB (5,601 words) - 20:08, 21 April 2023
- its maturing potency at the Battle of Gibraltar 1607), struck a blow against ... and parts of Milan to Duchy of Savoy; and Gibraltar and Minorca to the Kingdom ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
