So, he sent Alfonso to the Sandhurst Military Academy in England, where the training Alfonso received was severe but more cosmopolitan than Spain, given the current athmosphere

Alfonso requested support from Braccio da Montone, who was besieging Joan's troops in L ' Aquila, but had to set sail for Spain, where a war had broken out between his brothers and the Kingdom of Castile.

It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and the German-speaking parts of Europe.

Only from Spain did Louis XIV receive any good news where Das Minas and Galway had been forced to retreat from Madrid towards Valencia, allowing Philip V to re-enter his capital on 4 October.

Dilger eventually fled to Madrid, Spain, where he died during the Influenza Pandemic of 1918.

In 2009, transgenic maize was grown commercially in 11 countries, including the United States ( where 85 % of the maize crop was genetically modified ), Argentina ( 83 % GM ), Brazil ( 36 % GM ), South Africa ( 57 % GM ), Canada ( 84 % GM ), the Philippines ( 19 % GM ) and Spain ( 20 % GM ).

The music of Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias ( Spain ) and Portugal are also considered Celtic music, the tradition being particularly strong in Brittany, where Celtic festivals large and small take place throughout the year, and in Wales, where the ancient eisteddfod tradition has been revived and flourishes.

In other countries where liberal conservative movements have entered the political mainstream, such as Italy and Spain, the terms liberal and conservative may be synonymous.

Couscous is also very popular in France, where it is now considered a traditional dish, and has also become popular in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece.

As he was trying to reach either Italy or Spain, Magnentius ' supporters cornered him in a fortification in Vicus Helena ( now Elne ) in the Pyrenees, southwestern Gaul, where he was killed by Magnentius ' assassins after seeking sanctuary in a temple.

Spain has had a number of isolated and endogamous social groups where an individual's mores, culture and worth is set at birth.

Little is known of his life, but he was Venetian ambassador to Spain in 1736, where the famous castrato singer Farinelli heard him sing.

Almost immediately after the order of Kotaka was placed, Fernando Villaamil, second officer of the Ministry of the Navy of Spain where he was put in charge of developing the concept of a new ship designed to combat torpedo boats, placed an order for a large torpedo gunboat in November 1885, with the British builder James and George Thompson, of Clydebank, not far from where the Yarrow shipyards would move from London 20 years later.

Short verse dialogues between Death and each of its victims, which could have been performed as plays, can be found in the direct aftermath of the Black Death in Germany ( where it was known as the Totentanz, and in Spain as la Danza de la Muerte ).

The dagger was very popular as a fencing and personal defense weapon in 17th and 18th century Spain, where it was referred to as the daga or puñal.

On July 24, 1936, the Republican cruiser Méndez Núñez arrived at Santa Isabel ; on its way back to Spain the officers planned to join the rebellion, but the Spanish government, knowing this, ordered the ship to go back to the colony ; on August 14 the Méndez Núñez was back in Fernando Poo, where the sailors took control of her ; on September 21 the ship arrived in Málaga ( Republican Spain ).

Paul, considering his task complete, wanted to preach the gospel in Spain, where he would not " build upon another man ’ s foundation ".

He travelled to Spain in 1826, but returned to Bordeaux, where he died of a stroke in 1828, at the age of 82.

As the foremost saint from Navarre and one of the main Jesuit saints, he is much venerated in Spain and the Hispanic countries where Francisco Javier or Javier are common male given names.

This was the point at which the silver and gold treasure of Peru had to be landed and sent overland to the Caribbean Sea, where galleons from Spain would pick it up at the town of Nombre de Dios.

He was very active in furthering the accession of the French candidate for the throne of Spain, Philip V. Two years later, Vendôme having died in the interval, Alberoni was appointed consular agent for Parma at Philip's court, where he was the royal favourite, being raised at the same time to the dignity of count.

With his marriage to Urraca, queen regnant of Castile and León, in 1109, he began to use, with some justification, the grandiose title Emperor of Spain, formerly employed by his father-in-law, Alfonso VI.

During the later part of first millennium BC the use of brass spread across a wide geographical area from Britain and Spain in the west to Iran, and India in the east.

However, the Luftwaffe also provided volunteers to Spain to test both tactics and aircraft in combat, including the first combat use of the Stuka.

# the Mozarabic Breviary, once in use throughout all Spain, but now confined to a single foundation at Toledo ; it is remarkable for the number and length of its hymns, and for the fact that the majority of its collects are addressed to God the Son ;

The use of same word castas, and a method of stratifying people based on " breed, race, caste " was common in colonial Spain, throughout South America and Central America, within the last 500 years.

After the Spanish Civil War, Francoist Spain persecuted the Anarchists and Catalan nationalists among whom the use of Esperanto was extensive but in the 1950s, the Esperanto movement was tolerated again.

With an increasingly centralized monarchy, the first standing army since Roman times, and the use of artillery, France expelled the English from its territory and came out of the Middle Ages as the most powerful nation in Europe, only to lose that status to Spain following defeat in the Italian Wars.

While not a combatant themselves in Spain, they absorbed many of the lessons learned in time to use them.

Indeed the first use of these terms is in Languedoc, one of the least Germanized areas of Europe and bordering Muslim Spain.

Swiss Arms of Switzerland produces the SIG SG 550 assault rifle used by France, Chile, and Spain among others, and Steyr Mannlicher produces the AUG, a bullpup rifle in use in Austria, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and Saudi Arabia among other nations.

At one extreme, Japan permits the use of all 14 channels for 802. 11b, while other countries such as Spain initially allowed only channels 10 and 11, and France only allowed 10, 11, 12 and 13.

As they became politically interested in the former territories of Carthage, the Romans came to use Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior for ' near ' and ' far Spain '.

Pinckney's Treaty, signed with Spain on October 27, 1795, gave American merchants " right of deposit " in New Orleans, granting them use of the port to store goods for export.

In 1798 Spain revoked this treaty, prohibiting American use of New Orleans, and greatly upsetting the Americans.

There was, however, a considerable overlap between these types in use and the Corbridge and Newstead types are often found at the same site ( e. g. at Caerleon in Wales, Carnuntum in Austria, Carlisle in England and León in Spain ).

This use of the expression Latin derives from the cultural distinctions between the Romance language countries of modern-day Italy, Spain, France and Portugal ; and other European nations, including the Germanic countries of Northwestern and Central Europe.

* In the video game Civilization V: Gods & Kings, there are two Steam achievements: " Nobody expects ..." with the description " As Spain, use an Inquisitor to remove another Religion ", and the more explicit " Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition " whose description is " Beat the game on any difficultly setting as Isabella ".

Mosques have also been converted for use by other religions, notably in southern Spain, following the conquest of the Moors in 1492.

This style, which had been in use since 1554, was replaced when Philip inherited the Spanish Crown in 1556 with " Philip and Mary, by the Grace of God King and Queen of England, Spain, France, both the Sicilies, Jerusalem and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Burgundy, Milan and Brabant, Counts of Habsburg, Flanders and Tyrol ".

On 20 January 2006, it was announced that the first commercial venture to use MusicBrainz data is the Barcelona, Spain based Linkara in their Linkara Música service.

For example, the flags of Venezuela, of Colombia, and of Ecuador all use variants of the flag of Great Colombia, the country they composed upon their independence from Spain, created by the Venezuelan independence hero Francisco de Miranda ; and the flags of Egypt, of Iraq, of Syria, and of Yemen are all highly similar variants of the flag of the Arab revolt of 1916 – 1918.

Synonyms in use elsewhere include colegiación in Spain, ishi menkyo in Japan, autorisasjon in Norway, Approbation in Germany, and " άδεια εργασίας " in Greece.

In his austere use of color and sometimes doleful subject matter — prostitutes and beggars are frequent subjects — Picasso was influenced by a trip through Spain and by the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas.

In addition to ships of the Royal Navy, large commercial vessels, including ferries to France and Spain use the Sound from Millbay Docks.