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played a major role in reclaiming the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors and ... At the end of the eleventh century, the Iberian Peninsula political ...

The Almoravids, was a Berber dynasty from the Sahara that spread over a wide area of North-Western Africa and the Iberian peninsula during the ...

revival of scholasticism on the Iberian peninsula that also produced ... revival of scholasticism on the Iberian peninsula that also produced ...

the Straits of Gibraltar from the Iberian Peninsula. This had profound ... him at his Vila do Infante on the Sagres Peninsula a school of navigators ...

to the Supreme Court. Because of his Iberian roots and fluency in Spanish ... to the Supreme Court. Because of his Iberian roots and fluency in Spanish ...

end 780 years of Muslim control in the Spanish peninsula. ... an eight year campaign, most of the Iberian Peninsula was brought under Islamic ...

Gaul, east and northeast of the Iberian peninsula, Iberia and Taurica. B.C.E. and the annexation of the Greek peninsula and islands by Rome in ...

, showing the Almohade Empire on the Iberian peninsula and Northwest Africa ... in the holy war or jihad against Iberian Christian powers to rally ...

R. Goldstein, Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and ... *Chabás, J., and B. R. Goldstein. Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: ...

kingdoms slowly expanded themselves over the Iberian Peninsula at the expense of the Muslim Moorish states of Al-Andalus (Arabic الأندلس, al-andalus ...

and water rights show the influence of their Iberian civil law heritage, being based on distinctly different principles from the laws of the northeastern ...

financial and economic center of the Iberian Peninsula after Madrid. ... Tagus River, the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula, about eight miles ...

its colonial empire in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, modern Spain and Portugal ... ultimately left Carthage for the Iberian peninsula where he captured rich ...

Adriatic and deeper inland in the Balkan Peninsula and merokarst, imperfectly ... located at the sothernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula. ...

The Pyrenees are a range of mountains in southwestern Europe that form a natural border between France and Spain. They separate the Iberian Peninsula ...

America model is taught in Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Iran, and some other parts of Europe; this model may be taught to include only ...

reign was a turning point for the Iberian Peninsula. The marriage of Isabella ... to outflank France and to unite the Iberian Peninsula. In 1497 Juan, the ...

blooded" cultures (Italian, Persian, Arab, Iberian, etc.) or in more "gentlemanly" societies (like the "Old South" and England ...

The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula including present day Spain and Portugal) as well as the ...

across Europe, from (Denmark) to the Iberian peninsula. Their merciless looting ... the Pyrenees mountain range into the Iberian Peninsula. The Vandals may have ...

to specific groups of tribes in the Iberian Peninsula and Gaul. much of Europe, from Ireland and the Iberian Peninsula in the west to northern ...

" was originally applied to the entire Iberian Peninsula by the Muslim (Moors) who occupied the area for 500 years. As Christians began to reconquer ...

Marranos or Secret Jews were Jews resident in the Iberian peninsula in the late fourteenth through seventeenth centuries who adopted Christianity ...

coast and the second largest in the Iberian Peninsula. It attracts millions ... Like some other areas on the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula ...

tide of Christian supremacy on the Iberian peninsula. His reign saw the ... all the major Christian kingdoms of the peninsula — Navarre, León, Portugal ...

not only in Palestine but also in the Iberian Peninsula and central Europe ... for centuries through contacts in Iberian Peninsula and Sicily, much Islamic ...

of the known world. Tiberius, sent an Iberian named Mithridates, who claimed ... Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen. Arabian Peninsula (Tarrytown, NY: Marshall ...

found in the Mediterranean region from the Iberian Peninsula and southern France to Greece and northern Africa. Their most distinguishing characteristic ...

between the southern end of the Iberian peninsula and the European plate. However, this continental collision was remarkably different that the ...

and musical background of the Iberian Peninsula since Ancient times ... music forms in Spain. They called the Iberian Peninsula “Al-Andalus,” from ...

Gaul and over nearly the whole of the Iberian peninsula. Theodoric also attempted ... Amalaric, and preserved for him all his Iberian and a fragment of his Gaul ...

and most distinguished Jewish families of the Iberian peninsula. He soon became distinguished as one of the best scholars and orators of Amsterdam's ...

that the Sicani were originally an Iberian tribe. The Elymi, too, may ... first province outside of the Italian peninsula. Finley, Smith, and Duggan ...

the land mass that includes the Iberian Peninsula and the part of France ... the Falkland Islands. The Baja California peninsula appears on some early maps ...

between Spanish royalists and liberals in the Iberian Peninsula, which is known today as the Spanish Civil War, 1820–1823. American patriots in arms ...

colonies had also been established on the Iberian peninsula. ... Tartessos and other cities of the Iberian peninsula, from which it obtained ...

*Sus scrofa baeticus: A small subspecies present in the Iberian Peninsula ... recorded to be taken in Italy, the Iberian Peninsula and Russia. Wolves ...

his 1986 novel, The Stone Raft, wherein the Iberian Peninsula breaks off from the rest of Europe and sails about the Atlantic Ocean. In his 1995 novel ...

in 1812 a consequence of Napoleon's Iberian Peninsular campaign. ... in Goa, many of whom had fled the Iberian Peninsula to escape the Spanish ...

European countries, particularly in the Iberian Peninsula. Cricket fighting as a gambling or sports betting pastime also occurs, particularly in Macao. ...

oak primarily comes from the Iberian Peninsula and the western Mediterranean, with most of the cork worldwide produced from trees in Portugal. ...

the expansion of the crusade into the Iberian peninsula, in the context of ... Elsewhere on the Iberian peninsula, almost at the same time, King ...

to the expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian Peninsula beginning in the late fifteenth century. Many of these Sephardic Jews fled to Italy others ...

Visigoth Christian Kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula in 711 C.E. and progressing ... the borders of the empire from the Iberian Peninsula, in the west, to what ...

* Tajo or Tejo, the largest river in the Iberian Peninsula * The Thames, the river that runs through London * The Tiber, the river that runs through ...

over eastern Africa, and into the same Iberian Peninsula that Gregory had coaxed into the Trinitarian Roman orbit. The liturgical calendar of ...

family had settled in southern Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern Spain and Portugal), in the province of Hispania Baetica in what is ...

of A-Ma). The Portuguese then named the peninsula Macau.www.66163.com, [http://www ... #039;s loyalty to Portugal during the Iberian Union between 1580 and 1640. ...

across Europe, from Dania (Denmark) to the Iberian peninsula (Spain). At the Hungarian conquest, the Hungarian nation numbered between 25,000 ...

a decade. Commitment increased in the Peninsula War, where, protected by ... out-numbered British army from the Iberian Peninsula (Battle of Corunna ...

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country in southwestern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula. The land within the borders of today ...

of its first cultivation on the Hellenic peninsula. The tree features in the ... regarded as second only to that of the Italian peninsula. ...

River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at about 650 meters above mean sea level. The capital city of both Spain and the surrounding ...

being weakened from the Hundred Years' War, Iberian Kingdoms being in the final part of the Reconquista, the internecine fighting in the German ...

sovereign nations that make up the Iberian Peninsula—the others are Portugal ... Spain forms more than 80 percent of the Iberian Peninsula. Mainland ...

html Introduction to Cave Art in the Iberian Peninsula] *[http://donsmaps.com/cantabria.html Caves and Rock Shelters on the North coast of Spain] ...

conflicts with Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula and for the Norman ... On the Iberian Peninsula, there was no significant Christian polity ...

An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of stored energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. At the Earth's surface ...

was allotted Hispania Ulterior (Outer Iberian peninsula) as his province. Caesar’s ... (On the Hispanic War), campaigns in the Iberian peninsula ...

ranching spread throughout much of the Iberian peninsula and was later exported to the Americas. Both regions possessed a dry climate with sparse grass ...

a mixed-ancestry group that lived in the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages) during the rule of the Abdallah (reigned 888-912). In one particularly ...

modern humans from the west of the Iberian Peninsula. The remains, a largely ... In some areas of the Middle East and the Iberian peninsula, Neanderthals ...

Flow between Northwestern Africa and the Iberian Peninsula] The American Society of Human Genetics 68(4) (April 2001): 1019–1029. Retrieved February ...

Roma populations are found in the Balkan peninsula, significant numbers may ... # the Gitanos (also called Calé, mostly in the Iberian Peninsula ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[File:Human migrations and mitochondrial haplogroups.PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized ...

Had Suleiman succeeded in landing in the Iberian peninsula, he may have been cut off, for after he had captured Cyprus in 1571 he suffered a decisive ...

of the river Tawe. The neighboring Gower Peninsula has many place names of ... of Asturias in the far northwest of the peninsula, though historical sources ...

In Spain and the Iberian Peninsula, the idea of exotic dancing existed throughout the Islamic era and sometimes included slavery. When the Arab ...

founded during the Reconquista. As in the Iberian Peninsula, the inhabitants of Hispaniola were given new landmasters, while religious orders handled ...

warfare between Muslims and Christians on the Iberian peninsula, and he felt the intolerance of the Almoravid fanatics towards his people. Ha-Levi became ...

Europe in the eleventh century, via the Iberian Peninsula through Spanish Muslims the Moors, together with knowledge of astronomy and instruments like ...

Gaul, east and northeast of the Iberian peninsula, Iberia and Taurica ... have migrated southward into the Balkan peninsula in several waves beginning ...

planted in Cyprus, Corsica, Sardinia, the Iberian Peninsula, and elsewhere. [http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/262/268312/art/figures/KISH_04_77 ...

In the ninth-century region of Al-Andalus (on the Iberian peninsula), Abbas Ibn Firnas (Armen Firnas) developed a primitive form of parachute ...

the last Muslim stronghold on the Iberian peninsula, and they received ... coast of Cuba, which he believed to be a peninsula rather than an island, ...

to be read in Italian translations in the Iberian Peninsula. S. Rodzevich, "K istorii russkogo romantizma (Toward the history of Russian ...

Bonaparte's invasion of the Iberian Peninsula and the degradation ... groups, particularly Asians and non-Iberian Europeans. ===Peruvian ...

these three, at the base of the Jutland peninsula, was Nordalbingia. ... masters had been cornered in the Iberian peninsula by Abd ar-Rahman I ...

The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939, was a conflict in which the Francoists, or Nationalists, defeated the ...

as Consul) to go to Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern ... his invading legions sweeping down the peninsula, Pompey ordered the abandonment ...

Much of the Iberian Peninsula was dominated by Moors, following their ... foreign Enlightenment texts entered the Peninsula through prominent members ...

them to Spain during their conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. ===Europe=== [[Image:Gunthertuch.jpg|thumb|right|The Gunthertuch, an 11th-century ...

of the centuries long Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula, the word es|ojalá in the Spanish language and pt|oxalá in the Portuguese language ...

problem of how to move his troops to the Iberian Peninsula, because most units of the Navy had remained in control of the republic and were blocking ...

its remaining territories in the Italian Peninsula, Sicily and the Low Countries ... * [http://libro.uca.edu/payne1/spainport1.htm Library of Iberian Resources ...

Islamic rule in the Iberian Peninsula ended in the fifteenth century with the fall of Granada under Muhammad XII, who held out fighting for 12 ...

Berbers; they extended their rule to the Iberian peninsula where they replaced the Visigoth kingdom. Arabs also took control of western Asia from Byzantium ...

campaigns in Poland (1806–07), the Iberian Peninsula, western Germany, and ... France's sphere included the Iberian Peninsula and a share of influence ...

first attempt to cultivate soybeans in the Iberian peninsula was undertaken. In 1880, the soybean was first cultivated in Portugal in the Botanical ...

In Galicia, in the northwest corner of the Iberian peninsula, another region of traditional Celtic culture, the Suebian Parochiale, drawn up ...

forces of the Armenian, Albanian and Iberian kings, devoted to Christianity ... Mediterranean Sea by capturing the Balkan Peninsula from the Ottoman Empire ...

northern Italy, parts of France, and in the Iberian Peninsula. The style, sometimes called "First Romanesque" or "Lombard Romanesque," ...

to the coast and forcing withdrawal from the Iberian peninsula (in which its commander, Sir John Moore, was killed). Napoleon installed one of his marshals ...

France, and the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula. The long conflicts of this time, such as the Hundred Years' War fought between England ...

Italian Peninsula, southern France, and the Iberian Peninsula. It was a very popular object of hunting among Romans, Greeks, and Macedonians. ...

The Republic of Ireland, often referred to as simply Ireland, is a country in north-western Europe occupying five-sixths of the island of Ireland ...

part of its hinterland, the Chalcidice peninsula, and the coastal region ... Jews immigrated to Greece from the Iberian Peninsula following their expulsion ...