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the forced removalof the Jews by church and government authorities

I'm sure you have heard someone say, "Bless you" when someone sneezes at least once in your life. This goes way back to when people believed in witches. They believed that whenever someone sneezed, that person was blowing out the good spirit of Christ. So the thought that they would pray a small prayer asking the Lord to bless the person who just sneezed. In Spain it is a very similar idea, but that's not what they believe, it just kindof became a tradition in many places around the world. I highly doubt that anyone believes that anymore.

Ferdinand Magellan moved to Spain in 1517 after falling out of favor with the Portuguese royal court, even arguing with King Manuel I of Portugal over expeditions to the Spice Islands. Once in Spain, Magellan befriended fellow Portuguese Diogo Barboso and devoted himself to the latest advances in cartography.

It was one of the most fantastic cities in the world. It had paved and lighted streets, thousands of books in multiple libraries, baths, philosophers, and mathematicians. It was multinational and tolerant of other religions. At one point it was probably the intellectual capital of the western world.

Yes and no. The modern form of fighting bulls on foot with a cape did originate in Spain in the early 18th century. However, other forms of bullfighting have been going on since the early days of the Roman Empire.

The driving distance is 290 miles from Barajas Airport using the A4.

Who knows? She probably thought he was cute or it was the right thing to do at the last second or something.

13, Alfonso XIII was deposed in 1931 and there has been no King Alfonso since then.

Spain and Portugal are countries on the Iberian Peninsula of southwest Europe.

That was Isabella (Spanish for Elzabeth) who sponsored Columbus.

The following islands are part of the Balearic Islands; Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, Formentera, Cabrera, Isla Esponja, Na Redone, S'Espalmador, S'Epardell, Sa Conidera, Es Vedra, Tagomago, and Isla del Aire .

Depends on where you are. If you live in Spain I guess it is pretty powerful. Outside of that it isn't very powerful.

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Economis decline is what caused the naval superiority to decline then

I can't find a figure for the number of schools in Spain but it must be enough, 98% of the population is literate. Spain spends 4.4 % of CDP on education.

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For immigrants, to an extent, they can commit to polygamy. However they can only choose one spouse to marry as according to the Organic Law 4/2000 of January 11 which is regarding to immigrants rights in Spain.

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Spain has about 60 million tourists visit each year. Most of them go for the beaches.

Turin to Barcelona is 374.30 miles or 602.35 kms (873 kms by car)

The currency is the Euro just like the rest of Spain, Catalonia is not an independent state...yet

In 1930, 80% of the population in Spain lived in rural villages, and thirty years later, 77 percent of the population was still rural. Since 1960, urbanization has been fueled by extensive internal migration from the countryside to the cities, but only 35.8 of the population was defined as urban in 1996. The two large cities of Lisbon and Porto are both on the coast.