The wide world.(Survey)(Spain lives in several of them)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: November 25, 2000 | Copyright information

SPAIN lies in three worlds: the Mediterranean, from whose southern shores Muslim invaders arrived in 711, later to occupy-and in all senses enrich-most of what they called Al-Andalus, only to be gradually rolled back and finally ejected in 1492; the European Union, much of it a Spanish fief or at least Spanish-ruled 450 years ago; and the Atlantic world, whose western half was dominated by Spanish conquistadors, sailors and traders at that time, and much of which still uses their l...

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