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Spain is situated at the western most portion of the European continent. So it is not surprising that from early in its history, as successive waves of peoples that migrated throughout Europe, many would end up in the Iberian Peninsula. Its geography also forms a strategic gateway between the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean and between Europe and Africa, that would point to its importance in world history.

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rdfs:label	Spanish/History
rdfs:comment	Spain is situated at the western most portion of the European continent. So it is not surprising that from early in its history, as successive waves of peoples that migrated throughout Europe, many would end up in the Iberian Peninsula. Its geography also forms a strategic gateway between the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean and between Europe and Africa, that would point to its importance in world history.
dcterms:subject	Nation Histories Nation Histories
abstract	Spain is situated at the western most portion of the European continent. So it is not surprising that from early in its history, as successive waves of peoples that migrated throughout Europe, many would end up in the Iberian Peninsula. Its geography also forms a strategic gateway between the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean and between Europe and Africa, that would point to its importance in world history. In the Middle Ages, Spain fragmented into several smaller kingdoms under the pressure of Germanic invaders known as the Goths, who in turn succumbed to Muslim invaders from the south and who would create a new civilisation of cultural and technological brilliance. The descendents of their Goth foes, however, would prosper and create the first modern nation-state in the Iberian Peninsula — the Empire of Spain &mdashl; which would then expand into the world's first true global superpower. Economic pressures, political unrest and social problems however soon caused this empire to fall apart by the 20th century. Spain, however, managed to recover by the 1970s and is today a key participant and regional power in European politics.

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