Iberians of Spain inSpain inHistory Print Cite Share Feedback Also known as: España, Kingdom of Spain, Reino de España Written by Catherine Delano Smith, María J. Viguera•All Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Last Updated: Sep 16, 2024 • Article History ...
In many countries like Brazil, France, and Italy, he is the most successful foreign record seller and has the most records in history in his home country with 23 million sales. He has won 2 Grammys, 1 Country Music Award, and 1 American Music Award, to mention just a few! Julio Iglesi...
Other articles where history of Spain is discussed: Spain: Pre-Roman Spain: Human fossils in Spain belong to modern humans (Homo sapiens), the Neanderthals (H. neanderthalensis), and even earlier members of the human lineage, possibly H. erectus or H.
Miguel Indurain Larraya is a retired Spanish road racing cyclist. Indurain won five consecutive Tours de France from 1991 to 1995, the fourth, and last, to win five times. He won the Giro d'Italia twice, becoming one of only seven people in history to achieve the Giro-Tour double in ...
INTRODUCTION La Raya / A Raia (The Line) is the name given to the territories which lie along the borderline separating Spain and Portugal; particularly those in the Spanish province of Extremadura and the neighboring Portuguese Alentejo. Throughout history this region has been a crossroads, a pe...
Administratively, Spain is divided into 17 autonomous communities based on regional geography and history and in large part corresponding to the old Christian and Moorish kingdoms of Spain. The communities are subdivided into 50 provinces that predate the establishment of regional autonomy beginning in ...
of Education at Saitama University, specializing in Oriental Art History under the supervision of Prof. Shizuichi Yamaguchi, and moved to the U.S. in 2001, where he studied Imaging Technology at the City University of New York, graduating in 2007. She lives and works in New York and Beijing...
List of notable or famous playwrights from Spain, with bios and photos, including the top playwrights born in Spain and even some popular playwrights who ...
Spain has produced many famous artists: Picasso, Dali, Goya, Velázquez, el Greco –to name but a few. In the field of literature, Spain’s history has been well documented in the written word from medieval times including the cantar de mio cid –a poem dating back to the 12th Century,...
There’s perhaps no pilgrim trail more famous than the Camino de Santiago, the Way of St James in the north of Spain. Hundreds of thousands of people hike it every year. Still, every pilgrimage is unique. Follow Ava Kabouchy on her journey to Santiago de Compostela and learn how she fou...