Category: Spain

The Nasrid Kingdom of Granada In the middle of the 13th century, the territories of Al-Andalus were reduced to a single territory, the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada. In 1238, Muhammed I ibn Nasr, also known as Al-Ahmar, the Red, entered the city of Granada. Al-Ahmar is the creator of the Nasrid dynasty (which had 20 Granada sultans) and was the founder of the Kingdom of Granada,…

The Byzantine Empire took the opportunity with Justinian I to occupy a wide coastline from Alicante to the Portuguese south-Atlantic coast, including North Africa and the Balearic Islands. The new conquered territory was called the Province of Spania, and its capital was established in Carthago Spartaria (Cartagena), controlling a large part of the Spanish Mediterranean and the Strait of Gibraltar, and…

Prehistoric spain The history of human presence in the Iberian Peninsula dates back about 800,000 years, after the discovery of the remains of one of the first ancestors of human beings in the 1860s at the Gran Dolina site in the area of the Sierra de Atapuerca (in Burgos) and which has been baptized as Homo antecessor. Later in areas around Gibraltar, human remains from…

The different peoples that passed through Spain throughout history, the border situation of the peninsula between two continents with very diverse cultural traditions, the long period of political influence of the Hispanic monarchy, and its expansion in the American continent, have determined that the cultural, artistic and patrimonial heritage of Spain is one of the…

As a country located in Europe according to ZIPCODESEXPLORER, Spain is located in the southwest of Europe, in the Iberian Peninsula, sharing this peninsular territory with Portugal, occupying 80% of said peninsula. To the north it borders France and Andorra, finding its natural border in the Pyrenees. Geological and Mining Institute of Spain [1] Spanish Institute of Oceanography [2], since 1914 Hydrographic Institute…

According to the National Institute of Statistics, the population of Spain in 2010 was 46,951,532 residents [10] . The population density, of 91.13 residents / km², is lower than that of most other Western European countries and its distribution throughout the territory is very irregular: the most densely populated areas are concentrated on the coast, the the Guadalquivir valley (and…

The oldest architectural works in Spain date back to the megalithic culture, approximately 3000 BC. n. and. From this period until the Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula we are going to find very interesting finds and settlements of what has been generically called the Iberian or Iberian civilization. However, these are probably not the architectural monuments that…

Power of attorney The Judicial Power of Spain is the set of Courts and Tribunals, made up of Judges and Magistrates, who have the power to administer justice on behalf of the King. Exclusively to said Courts and Tribunals corresponds the exercise of jurisdictional power, judging and executing what is judged. In exercise of this…

According to the classification of government systems in the world, Spain has the form of parliamentary monarchy, since its legislative power (represented in the figure of the Cortes Generales), exercises most of the legislative and government responsibility. It is a parliamentary system because after the legislative elections which are held every four years, the monarch must…

Transition to democracy Main article: Spanish transition After several years of absolutist dictatorship under Franco, the 20 of November of 1975, the “generalissimo” died, initiating a process of transition towards democracy which lasted until the rise of the socialist Felipe González to power in 1982. The transition marked the return of the monarchy to Spain, with the rise to power of Juan Carlos…