Gibraltar

Alias

  • Also: Gibaltar
  1. Long rock formation extending into the Mediterranean near the Southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.
  2. Overrun by the Arabs in 711, it became a much disputed territory by successive dynasties of Almohads, Nasrids of Granada, Marinids of Morocco, and by the kings of Castile.
  3. King Alfonso XI of Castile died of the plague during the siege of 1350.
  4. The territory was eventually conquered for Enrique IV of Castile in 1462.
  5. In 1713, by the Treaty of Utrecht, it was handed over to the British Crown, after having been captured by Anglo-Dutch forces in 1704, followed by several unsuccessful sieges to recover it for the Spanish Crown. 

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