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Why does France own The Rock of Gibraltar?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory.

It was ceded to Britain under the Terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 at the end of the war of Spanish succession. Under this treaty Spain lost most of her European empire.

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