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Spain

Spain then sank rapidly to the status of a second-rate power under the rule of weak Hapsburg kings, and it never again played a major role in European politics.
In May, the new prime minister made good on his campaign promise, recalling Spain's 1,300 soldiers from Iraq, much to the displeasure of the United States, which said Spain was appeasing terrorists.
Spain, originally inhabited by Celts, Iberians, and Basques, became a part of the Roman Empire in 206 B.C., when it was conquered by Scipio Africanus.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107987.html (1562 words)



spiked-politics Home

The Israeli leader's resignation from his own Likud party shows up the superficiality of contemporary Israeli politics.
Spain's political leaders are dusting off the old dictator as a panto villain to distract an increasingly disgruntled public.
Recent scandals over Iraq show that todays leaders are incapable of covering their own backsides, never mind covering up a war.

http://www.spiked-online.com/Sections/politics (1103 words)



washingtonpost.com: Spain

A description of the history, government, politics and economy of Spain.
The tanker Prestige ruptures off the coast of northwest Spain, and threatens to spill twice as much oil as the Exxon Valdez.
A detailed list of facts and figures for Spain.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/europe/westerneurope/spain (313 words)



Spain

Spain then sank rapidly to the status of a second-rate power under the rule of weak Hapsburg kings, and it never again played a major role in European politics.
In May, the new prime minister made good on his campaign promise, recalling Spain's 1,300 soldiers from Iraq, much to the displeasure of the United States, which said Spain was appeasing terrorists.
Spain, originally inhabited by Celts, Iberians, and Basques, became a part of the Roman Empire in 206 B.C., when it was conquered by Scipio Africanus.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107987.html (1547 words)



Medieval Spain: Arabs and Jews in Cultural Embrace / RootsWorld Recording Review

During the Golden Age in medieval Spain, Jews played prominent roles in politics, art, commerce and all major areas of social discourse side by side with their Muslim brethren.
With the Inquisition which followed, Christian Spain hounded, harassed and tortured the remaining secret Jews (Marranos) instituting one of history's most hateful periods of Jewish persecution (until the Holocaust).
The end of the Golden Age and the exile of Spain's Jews was not the end of a Jewish life in Arab lands.

http://www.rootsworld.com/reviews/hesperion.shtml (1203 words)



Medieval Spain

The Rise and Fall of the Party Kings: Politics and Society in Islamic Spain, 1002-1086
Constable, Remie Olivia, Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1500
Burns, Robert I., S.J. Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: Societies in Symbiosis

http://www.uca.edu/divisions/academic/history/medsp.htm (459 words)



Microform Sources for United States History

India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947 -- Sources/India -- Politics and government -- 1947---Sources/India -- Foreign relations -- Sources/United States -- Dept. of State -- Archives.
Reports from U.S. diplomats in foreign countries on political and military affairs, studies and statistics on socioeconomic matters, interviews and minutes of meetings with foreign government officials, texts of important letters, instructions, cables sent and received, translations from foreign publications and government documents.
Records of the Department of State relating to political relations between the United States and Russia and the Soviet Union, 1910-29.

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/hist/usmf/node6.html (3647 words)



Western Sahara - Former Spanish Sahara

Western Sahara (formerly Spanish Sahara), former overseas province of Spain, located in northwestern Africa, occupied since 1979 by Morocco.
When Mauritania withdrew in 1979, Morocco laid claim to all of Western Sahara and continued the war against the Polisario.
Spain held the region briefly in the 1500s before Morocco took it.

http://members.aol.com/arabinfo7/sahara.htm (204 words)



Sahara issue: Spain seeks to improve conditions for solution accepted by all parties

The Sahara issue is opposing Morocco to the Algeria-backed Polisario front, which is claiming secession of Moroccos southern provinces, known as Western Sahara.
The Union is at a standstill because of differences over the Sahara between the two most populated countries, Morocco and Algeria, which is politically and militarily backing the separatists, yet rejecting any dialogue over the issue, saying it is not involved.
Sahara issue: Spain seeks to improve conditions for solution accepted by all parties

http://www.marweb.com/news/sahara_spain.htm (438 words)



The Daily Star - Politics - Spain, Algeria back Western Sahara's right to self-determination

"Spain would like to help the Sahrawi people and Morocco find a definitive solution" to the conflict in which they have been locked since 1975, when Rabat annexed the Western Sahara territory after it was granted independence from Spain, said Miguel Angel Moratinos on Algerian television late Monday.
Madrid was "satisfied" with a recent UN Security Council resolution extending the mandate of the UN mission in Western Sahara, MINURSO, for another six months from the end of April.
ALGIERS: Spain and Algeria see eye to eye on the disputed Western Sahara territory in southern Morocco, and in particular agree that the Sahrawi people have the right to self-determination, Spain's foreign minister has said during a brief visit here.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=3241 (653 words)



Spain

Spain then sank rapidly to the status of a second-rate power under the rule of weak Hapsburg kings, and never again played a major role in European politics.
In May, the new prime minister made good on his campaign promise, recalling Spain's 1,300 soldiers from Iraq, much to the displeasure of the United States, which said Spain was appeasing terrorists.
Many Spaniards blamed Aznar's staunch support of the U.S. and the war in Iraq for making Spain an al-Qaeda target.

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0107987.html (653 words)



CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Emperor Charles V

But be made the first, perhaps the only, attempt on a large scale to deal with colonial politics, in practical effect, from the double standpoint of political and economical interests and with the realization of a duty to promote Christian civilization.
Charles had now to consider whether he would allow liberty of action to the Protestant princes of Germany, to whom, under pressure of war, he had made concessions, especially at the Diet of Spires in 1544.
Charles escaped, but abandoned his plan for the reorganization of the imperial government.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03625a.htm (4837 words)



AllRefer.com - Spain - Roman Catholic Church Spanish Information Resource

With the reinstitution of the Inquisition in Spain in the fifteenth century, the state employed draconian measures to enforce religious unity in an effort to ensure political unity.
The loyalty of the Roman Catholic Church to the Francoist state lent legitimacy to the dictatorship, which in turn restored and enhanced the church's traditional privileges (see The Franco Years, ch.
Although it no longer had a privileged position in society, its very independence from politics and its visibility made it an influential force.

http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/spain/spain138.html (4837 words)



Medieval Net. Welcome to the Medieval Network. Famous People in Medieval History: Queen Isabella. Famous People, Medieval Recipes, Medieval Movies, Medieval Art, Medieval Books, Medieval History.

He targeted Moors, Moorish converts that were suspected of changing back, and Jews who were forced to convert or leave Spain.
Isabella was named the Catholic Queen or the Law and Order Queen by the pope because of her great devotion to religion and politics which won her great popularity.
For the first time in over 800 years, Spain was united into one country and the Spanish people viewed her as a symbol of the countries unity and purpose.

http://www.medieval.net/queenisabella.htm (685 words)



Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles

Named after a monastery in Spain by Christopher Columbus during his second great voyage in 1493, the island became a British Colony in 1632 although the first settlers were largely Irish.
Montserrat is one of the Leeward Islands in the Eastern Caribbean, lying 27 miles southwest of Antigua and 40 miles northwest of Guadeloupe.
Later, two members of the NPLM resigned from the party to cross the floor to join the opposition.

http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1018965244953 (1236 words)



Jordan Daily

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was to head for Spain on Tuesday, his penultimate destination on a diplomatic tour which has taken in Jordan, Egypt and Franc...
A GROUP of former foreign leaders backing the defence of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein have called for a UN probe into the murder of a lawyer working for one of his fellow accused.
Politics aside as Arab TV laps up US pop culture

http://www.jordandaily.com (539 words)



British Dependencies History - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System

Columbus named Montserrat after the mountain in Spain on which Ignatius Loyola established of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits).
Under the leadership of Ronald Webster, a local businessman and leader of Anguilla's only political party, the People's Progressive Party (PPP), Anguillians strongly objected to internal rule by St. Kitts.
Montserrat, also a small island, lies 180 kilometers southeast of Anguilla, not far from Antigua.

http://workmall.com/wfb2001/montserrat/montserrat_history_index.html (1238 words)



Franco by Christopher Manion

The long-standing leftist tradition of hatred of Catholic Spain was very carefully laid out by Professor Philip Wayne Powell in his classic Tree of Hate.
I did not visit the Soviet Union until 1991, on the last May Day of Gorbachevs reign, because I never would have gotten past the KGBs visa screeners (as Bill Clinton obviously had hmmmm.).
As a rule, Franco left you alone, as long as you didnt dabble in politics.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/manion/manion45.html (859 words)



History 5, Lecture 28: 1968-1989: Politics in a New Key

After 1968 in the West: the Invention of Post-Modern Politics?
            -My summary review of periodization of politics (in Western Europe, at least):
            -Regional nationalism after 1968: the cases of France and Spain

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~history5/28.html (859 words)



Roman Spain by Leonard A Curchin, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0415064511

Twentieth Century Spain: Politics and Society in S...
Hispaniae: Spain and the Development of Roman Impe...
Roman Spain: Conquest and Assimilation (By Leonard A. Curchin)

http://www.bookfinder4u.com/detail/0415064511.html (859 words)



Spain seeks to extend its influence in North Africa

Zapatero’s Socialist Workers Party of Spain (PSOE) has distanced itself from the pro-American line of its predecessor in government, the reviled Popular Party (PP) of Jose Maria Aznar, by seeking closer ties with other European powers.
Morocco is a favoured state of the United States, which sees it as a useful counterweight to growing hostility across the Arab world.
His proposal, which was finally accepted by the UN Security Council and the Algerian-backed Polisario in 2003, was that Western Sahara should be a semi-autonomous region of Morocco for five years, to be followed by a referendum on the status of the territory.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jul2004/nafr-j31.shtml (1192 words)



JosÃ© Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero - free-definition

RodrÃguez Zapatero was born in Valladolid but his family (with a long tradition of left-wing politics) was from LeÃ³n.
The speaker at the rally was the PSOE leader Felipe GonzÃ¡lez (who became Prime Minister of Spain in 1982 and served until 1996), and RodrÃguez Zapatero joined the PSOE soon after.
In 1986, he became the youngest member of parliament in Spain when he won a seat representing the province.

http://www.free-definition.com/Jos%C3%A9-Luis-Rodr%C3%ADguez-Zapatero.html (1192 words)



JosÃ© Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero - free-definition

RodrÃguez Zapatero was born in Valladolid but his family (with a long tradition of left-wing politics) was from LeÃ³n.
The speaker at the rally was the PSOE leader Felipe GonzÃ¡lez (who became Prime Minister of Spain in 1982 and served until 1996), and RodrÃguez Zapatero joined the PSOE soon after.
In 1986, he became the youngest member of parliament in Spain when he won a seat representing the province.

http://www.free-definition.com/José-Luis-Rodríguez-Zapatero.html (1192 words)



New Mexico -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article

The Democratic Party generally dominates state politics, and (additional info and facts about as of 2004) as of 2004 50% of voters were registered Democrats, 33% were registered Republicans, and 17% did not affiliate with either of the two major parties.
New Mexico authorities captured a group of Texans who embarked an expedition to assert their claim to the province in 1841.
According to the Census Bureau, as of 2003, the population of New Mexico was 1,874,614.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/n/ne/new_mexico.htm (4858 words)



MONTSERRAT FACTS AND INFORMATION

Montserrat was populated by Arawak and Carib peoples when it was claimed by Christopher_Columbus on his second voyage for Spain in 1493, naming the island 'Santa MarÃa de Montserrat'.
Montserrat is a lush-mountainous island in the Caribbean_Sea, located in the Leeward_Islands, it is also found in the chain of islands that are sometimes called the Lesser_Antilles.
Montserrat's Georgian-era capital city of Plymouth was destroyed and two-thirds of the island's population forced to flee abroad due to the eruption of the Soufriere_Hills_volcano that began on July_18, 1995.

http://www.19gmarketinggroup.com/Montserrat (718 words)



Travel Resources for Northern Ireland from office1000.com

This book follows up the theoretical analysis of Ethnic Diversity and Public Policy with detailed case studies from leading international experts on Malaysia, Tanzania, Mauritius, Trinidad and Tobago, Northern Ireland, Spain and the United States of America to discover what lessons can be learnt for policy-ma
Politics of Territory: Policy and Segregation in Northern Ireland
This book explains how public opinion polls were used in support of the Northern Ireland peace process.

http://travel.office1000.com/NorthernIreland.html (718 words)



Written biography of Ferdinand, VII Life of Ferdinand, VII

For a scholarly account of the politics and economics of Spain during Ferdinand's reign see Raymond Carr, Spain, 1808-1939 (1966).
By the end of 1792, at the age of 25, Godoy was virtual dictator of Spain.
The reign of Ferdinand VII (1784-1833) was one of the most complex and important in the history of Spain.

http://www.newessay.com/biographies/Ferdinand_VII-29088.html (718 words)



Bourbon Weddings: Matrimonial Alliances of the Spanish Bourbons

The assassination attempt served as an introduction to the volatility of Spanish politics and the uncertainty Victoria-Eugenie was going to face as Queen of Spain.
His long bachelorhood was put to an end in 1816 when Princess Maria Isabela of Portugal arrived in Spain to marry her prince.
In the end, Isabela was given the worst possible candidate that could be found, her cousin Infante Francisco de Asis of Bourbon.

http://www.eurohistory.com/bourbonweddings.html (4324 words)



CR: HA/0016 (sec 1) Philip II of Spain: Society, Politics and the Arts

HA/0016 (sec 1) Philip II of Spain: Society, Politics and the Arts
CR: HA/0016 (sec 1) Philip II of Spain: Society, Politics and the Arts
If you are motivated to take a class which requires you to be responsible for the structure and rigor of your own learning, consider taking 'Philip II of Spain', which explores some fantastic art in a critical period of the Spanish Empire.

http://www.brown.edu/Students/Critical_Review/1999.2000.1/HA0016_1ZER.html (365 words)



Epiphanius Physiologus: People

Christopher Plantin, who printed and published the book, was official printer to king Phillip II of Spain, who had possesion of the part of the Netherlands that included Antwerp, where Plantin had his press.
Though some of the people involved in the writing and production of the book may never have met each other, they are part of a web created by politics, economics and religion.
The work is dedicated to Pope Sixtus V., who supported the Catholic Phillip in his attempted conquest of England via the ill-fated Spanish Armada.

http://gateway.uvic.ca/spcoll/physiologum/commentary/biography.htm (365 words)