Spain (Spanish: España, [esˈpaɲa] (listen)), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a country in Southwestern Europe with some pockets of territory across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Atlantic Ocean. Its continental European territory is situated on the Iberian Peninsula. Its territory also includes two archipelagos: the Canary Islands off the coast of North Africa, and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The African enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, makes Spain the only European country to have a physical border with an African country (Morocco). Several small islands in the Alboran Sea are also part of Spanish territory. The country's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean respectively.
With an area of 505,990 km2 (195,360 sq mi), Spain is the largest country in Southern Europe, the second-largest country in Western Europe and the European Union, and the fourth-largest country by area on the European continent. With a population exceeding 47.3 million, Spain is the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the fourth-most populous country in the European Union. Spain's capital and largest city is Madrid; other major urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Zaragoza, Málaga, and Bilbao.
Modern humans first arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 35,000 years ago. Iberian cultures along with ancient Phoenician, Greek, Celtic and Carthaginian settlements developed on the peninsula until it came under Roman rule around 200 BC, after which the region was named Hispania, based on the earlier Phoenician name Sp(a)n or Spania. At the end of the Western Roman Empire, Germanic tribal confederations migrated from Central Europe, invaded the Iberian peninsula and established relatively independent realms in its western provinces. One of them, the Visigoths, forcibly integrated all remaining independent territories in the peninsula, including the Byzantine province of Spania, into the Visigothic Kingdom.
In the early eighth century the Visigothic Kingdom was conquered by the Umayyad Islamic Caliphate. The Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula (al-Andalus) soon became autonomous from Baghdad. A handful of small Christian pockets in the north were left out of Muslim rule, along the presence of the Carolingian Empire near the Pyrenées, eventually led to the emergence of the Christian kingdoms of León, Castile, Aragon, Portugal and Navarre. Over seven centuries, an intermittent southwards expansion of these kingdoms (metahistorically dubbed as a reconquest: the Reconquista) culminated with the Christian seizure of the last Muslim polity (the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada) in 1492, the same year Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World. A process of political conglomeration among the Christian kingdoms also ensued, and the late 15th-century saw the dynastic union of Castile and Aragon under the Catholic Monarchs, sometimes considered to be the emergence of Spain as a unified country. The Conquest of Navarre occurred in 1512, while the Kingdom of Portugal was also ruled by the Hapsburg Dynasty between 1580 and 1640.
In the early modern period, Spain ruled one of the largest empires in history which was also one of the first global empires, spawning a large cultural and linguistic legacy that includes over 570 million Hispanophones, making Spanish the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese. Spain hosts the world's third-largest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Spain is a secular parliamentary democracy and a parliamentary monarchy, with King Felipe VI as head of state. It is a major developed country and a high income country, with the world's fourteenth-largest economy by nominal GDP and the sixteenth-largest by PPP. It is a member of the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU), the Eurozone, the Council of Europe (CoE), the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), the Union for the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the Schengen Area, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and many other international organisations. While not an official member, Spain has a "Permanent Invitation" to the G20 summits, participating in every summit, which makes it a de facto member of the group.
1. Kwa hakika hayapo mafanikio bila jasho na ikibidi bila damu:
2. Wapalestina na HAMAS wamemaanisha kwa heri na shari, kwa maneno na vitendo.
3. Leo dunia inatambua hata kwa kuwaangalia usoni tu, wana maanisha: "wanaitaka nchi yao sasa."
4. Tokea 1947, Spain hatimaye somo limeeleweka...
Meli yenye misaada kwa ajili ya watu wa Gaza waliozuiliwa chakula na Mayahudi imetia nanga na kuanza kuteremsha chakula angalau kidogo.
Meli hiyo ilianza safari takriban siku 4 zilizopita kutoka nchini Spain na kwa muda mfupi kufika eneo hilo bila usumbufu.
Katika hali hiyo ile nia ya Marekani...
Wanaukumbi..
Baadhi ya nchi hazijathibitisha ushiriki wao, hata hivyo, huku zingine zimesema juhudi zao za kusaidia kulinda trafiki ya kibiashara ya Bahari Nyekundu zitakuwa kama sehemu ya makubaliano yaliyopo ya jeshi la maji badala ya operesheni mpya inayoongozwa na Marekani..
Ukosefu wa...
Haya mataifa yameungana kubuni mbinu za kupambana na hayo magaidi yenye mlengo wa kidini......
MANAMA, Bahrain — The US and a host of other nations are creating a new force to protect ships transiting the Red Sea that have come under attack by drones and ballistic missiles fired from...
Rais Miguel akiongoza maandamano Havana kuwaunga mkono Hamas.
Katika hali ya mabadiliko ya haraka kufuatia mashambulizi ya Hamas ya Oktoba sana huko Cuba Rais wa nchi hiyo ameongoza maandamano ya maelfu ya raia wake katika kuwaunga mkono Hamas na harakati zao za kutetea haki ya kuishi kwenye...
Nyuzi Nyingi sana zinaandikwa kuisifia Simba eti ni kubwa Afrika na jana imeonyesha kua ni giant😂😂.
Machizi kweli nyie na kama unasoma huu uzi una hilo wazo huo ni uchizi pia. Hivi Team gani ulaya haiogopi Atletico hii ni Moja ya Team ngumu sana ulaya na Match zake hua zakuvutia sana kuanzia...
Argentina hatua ya 16 Bora itamuwia ngumu mno kwakuwa hadi hapa walipofika ni kwa bahati bahati tu!
Spain yupo na mkusini wake Morocco, siku ambayo watu watazikimbia mikeka yao hapa.
Sina kipaji cha kumuelezea mtu aelewe maono yetu tuliyojaliwa kuyaangalia mambo kwa nguvu ya ziada!
Nitafufua...
Hahahah! Make hapa kwanza ncheke, basi bwana sijui niseme ni jambo la kushangaza au nikawaida huko Uhispania bwana wameanzisha kampeni ya kuhamasisha watu wafanye tendo la ndoa kardi uwezavyo.
Edelmira Barreira ambae amechaguliwa kuwa Waziri wa Wizara ya kuhamasisha watu kushiriki tendo la ndoa...
Ni mwaka wa ngapi sasa anaeshinda Balon d or anatokea la liga?
Hata kama mwaka huu Messi katokea PSG lakini alipewa tuzo kwa performance yake ya la liga.
Halafu lewandosky na Van Djik walikosaje?
Sasa twende Jana draw ya Champions league mliona timu zote za Spain kasoro
Madrid zilikuwa...
December 6, 1803: Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony, Queen of Spain, was born in Dresden to Prince Maximilian of Saxony and Princess Carolina of Parma. Their youngest daughter, she lost her mother when she was only a few months old, and she was convent-raised, sparking in her in a fierce Catholic...
What Philip of Spain really thought about his Marriage to Mary ?
With his male friends the King mad it plain that, for him, this was marriage of convenience only, and that he was not attracted to Mary.
He even complained to one gentleman that her portraits painters had flattered her in order...
Kwa Utaalam niliousikia anao Kocha mpya wa Simba SC mwenye Viwango vya Kimataifa na vya Mbinguni Bwana Pablo kutoka nchini Hispania nimedokezwa kuwa kuna Kozi moja ataiendesha nchini Tanzania ambapo Makocha kama Nabi, Kaze na Zahera hawana jinsi na watalazimika tu Kuhudhuria na Kuhitimu ili...
Dakika chache zijazo, utapigwa mchezo wa Fainali ya Uefa Nations League, Spain Vs France katika dimba la San Siro pale jijini Milan, nchini Italy.
Ikumbukwe hii ni fainali ya pili, baada ya ile ya kwanza mwaka 2019 ambapo Ureno ilitwaa taji hilo!
Je nani kuibuka bingwa wa pili wa michuano toka...
Salama wakuu,
Michuano ya Euro 2020 inategemewa kuanza hapo Juni 11 takribani wiki tatu kutoka sasa.
Michuano hii ilitakiwa ifanyike juni mwaka jana 2020 ila ilihairishwa kutokana na Corona. Hivyo Uefa ikaamua michuano hiyo ifanyike mwaka huu lakini iendelee na jina lilelile la Uefa Euro 2020...
Mechi kati ya Morocco na Mauritania, kwa wale waliobahatika kuitazama mechi leo...Kuangaza kwangu macho nikamuona fundi wa Sevilla Munir El hadad akichezea timu ya taifa ya Morocco, nikabaki na mshangao...Je, ni mchezaji wa mataifa yote mawili Morroco na Spain kwa pamoja???
God bless you guy's
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