Alias
- Also: Gibaltar
- Long rock formation extending into the Mediterranean near the Southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.
- 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.
- King Alfonso XI of Castile died of the plague during the siege of 1350.
- The territory was eventually conquered for Enrique IV of Castile in 1462.
- 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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