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Area : 194606  sq.mi - Population : 46030109 hab.

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Spanish, catalan, galician, Basque, valenciano

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1100 BC: The Phoenicians and the Greeks join the Celtiberians.
201 AC: The Romans are present before the Vandals and Visigoths.
711-1492: The Muslim period ends with the 'Catholic Monarchs'.
1492: Isabella, 1st Queen of Castile, gives three caravels to Christopher Columbus who will discover America.
1588: End of the conquistadores, followed by the defeat of the Invincible Armada.
1814: King Ferdinand VII is absolute monarch and Spain loses its Latin American colonies.
1923:Primo de Rivera dictatorship.
1936: Victory of the Popular Front and the start of the civil war between Republicans and Nationalists. Franco obtains power and installs dictatorship.
1975: Franco dies. Spain is handed to king Juan Carlos who begins the transition towards democracy, with centrist Adolfo Suárez, and socialist Felipe González.
1986: Spain enters EEC.
1996: José Maria Aznar and the Popular Party, Conservative, win the elections.
1998: ETA announces a cease-fire which is then broken fourteen months later.
2002: Following 9/11, Aznar's government sends troops to Iraq to support the United States.
March 11th 2004:The Madrid train bombings occur just before the general elections. ETA is immediately held responsible by the Aznar Government. It turns out that Al Quaida is behind the attack. Head of the Socialist opposition, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero wins the elections and withdraws all Spanish troops sent by Aznar to Iraq.
2005: the country became the first in the world to give full marriage and adoption rights to homosexual couples.