Gibraltar, Rock of
Gibraltar, Rock of a rocky headland at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar, captured by the British during the War of the Spanish Succession in 1704 and formally ceded by the Peace of Utrecht (1713–14); traditionally one of the Pillars of Hercules.
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