In 1774 Phillip joined the Portuguese Navy as a captain, serving in the War against Spain.

Costa Rica joined other Central American provinces in 1821 in a joint declaration of independence from Spain.

Exiled to Spain in 1504, he was imprisoned in the Castle of La Mota, Medina del Campo, from which he escaped and joined King John III of Navarre.

In the spring of 1203, Dominic joined Prior Diego on an embassy to Denmark for the monarchy of Spain.

After the king's execution in January 1793, these powers, along with Spain and most other European states, joined the war against France.

Spain joined NATO before Calvo-Sotelo left office.

In 1986, Spain joined the European Economic Community ( EEC, now European Union ), and the country hosted the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and Seville Expo ' 92.

In 1718, France was once again at war, as Philip II of Orléans's regency joined the War of the Quadruple Alliance against Spain.

Spain, allied to France by the Family Compact, and the Dutch Republic also joined the war on the French side.

Spain, Naples, Great Britain, and the Netherlands joined Austria and Prussia in The First Coalition ( 1792 – 1797 ), the first major concerted effort of multiple European powers to contain Revolutionary France.

The states might have joined in regional confederacies or allied with Spain, France or Britain, which still had North American colonies.

Melilla ( like Ceuta ) was a free port before Spain joined the European Union.

In 1958 Spain joined the previously separate districts of Saguia el-Hamra ( in the north ) and Río de Oro ( in the south ) to form the province of Spanish Sahara.

Louis XV was later joined by his uncle, King Philip V of Spain, who hoped to secure territories in Italy for his sons by his second marriage to Elizabeth Farnese.

Spain and Portugal joined ( having applied in 1977 ) on 1 January 1986 in the third enlargement.

At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War he joined the Republican forces in Spain, serving in and helping to organize the small Spanish Republican Air Force.

Charles revived the Family Compact with France on 15 August 1761 and joined in the Seven Years ' War against Britain in 1762 ; the reformist policies he had espoused in Naples were pursued with similar energy in Spain, where he completely overhauled the cumbersome bureaucracy of the state.

This group was joined by Spain ’ s CASA following an agreement in December 1999.

Spain and the Netherlands soon joined the French in an anti-British coalition.

The Tribunal Constitucional of Spain rejected the Leonese proposal in 1984, and León was joined with Castile to create the " Castile and León Autonomous Community ", supported by only 4 % of the Leonese municipalities.

As his military successes were well known in Spain, he attracted many recruits from a variety of backgrounds who joined his quest for riches in the New World.

Originally signed in 1998 by Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, Australia and New Zealand joined 1999, followed by Finland, Greece, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Spain in 2000.

When the northern Netherlands revolted against King Philip II of Spain in the Dutch Revolt, the three northern quarters of Gelderland joined the Union of Utrecht and became part of the United Provinces upon the 1581 Act of Abjuration, while only the Upper Quarter remained a part of the Spanish Netherlands.

He was born at Vitoria in Álava, Spain and joined the Franciscan order, becoming ordained in 1752.

They were shortly joined by an additional 68 immigrants on September 2, 2012 .. Refuges and illegal immigration from sub-Saharan nations has been a problem that Spain, and the European Union as a whole, has been trying to solve.

Barcelona remained the second largest city in Spain, at the heart of a region which was relatively industrialised and prosperous, despite the devastation of the civil war.

The area around the bay in Spain is heavily industrialised with extensive petrochemical installations near San Roque ( such as the CEPSA oil refinery and Acerinox stainless steel manufacturing plant ) and working ports in both Algeciras and Gibraltar.

Getafe () is a city in the south of the Madrid metropolitan area, Spain, and one of the most populated and industrialised cities in the area.

Socially responsible banks founded out of anthroposophy in the English-speaking world include Triodos Bank, founded in 1980 and active in the UK, Netherlands and Spain, La Nef in France and RSF Social Finance in San Francisco.

Barcelona is the transport hub with one of Europe's principal ports, Barcelona international airport, which handles above 34 million passengers per year, extensive motorway network and also is a hub of high-speed rail, particularly that which is intended to link Spain with France and the rest of Europe as the second longest in the world.

In particular, the British Museum ’ s collections covering the period AD 300 to 1100 are among the largest and most comprehensive in the world, extending from Spain to the Black Sea and from North Africa to Scandinavia.

It has the sixth largest highway network in the world, trailing only the United States, China, Canada, Spain and Germany.

In recent years flamenco has become popular all over the world and is taught in many countries: in Japan there are more academies than there are in Spain.

With the increase in contact between Christians and Muslims through the Crusades and the Moorish occupation of Spain, various magical ideas and concepts originating in the Islamic world made their way into European grimoires.

In some parts of the world ( e. g., German-language areas, France, Korea, Italy, Spain, Turkey ), it is called " Gin Tonic ".

For the next century and a half, Spain was the most powerful state in Europe and the largest overseas empire in the world for three centuries.

From the time beginning with the incorporation of the Portuguese Empire in 1580 ( lost in 1640 ) until the loss of its American colonies in the 19th century, Spain maintained the largest empire in the world even though it suffered fluctuating military and economic fortunes from the 1640s.

The thought that Spain could bring Christianity to the new world certainly played a strong role in the expansion of Spain's empire.

Charles I of Spain ( better known in the English-speaking world at the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V ) was the most powerful European monarch of his day.

This selection of the King of Spain turned out to play an important role in European and world history, since France opposed a German prince's candidacy to the Spanish throne, and this served as the immediate motive for the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ).

During Franco's rule, Spain was officially neutral in World War II and remained largely economically and culturally isolated from the outside world.

Glucose concentrations are expressed as milligrams per deciliter ( mg / dL or mg / 100 mL ) in the United States, Japan, Spain, France, Belgium, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Colombia, while millimoles per liter ( mmol / L or mM ) are the units used in most of the rest of the world.

There are examples of cave paintings all over the world — in France, India, Spain, Portugal, China, Australia etc.

Jeeps have been built under licence by various manufacturers around the world including Mahindra in India, EBRO in Spain, and several in South America.

The Northwest Passage represented a new route to the established trading nations of Asia, as in 1493 to defuse trade disputes, Pope Alexander VI split the discovered world in two between Spain and Portugal ; thus France, the Netherlands, and England were left without a sea route to Asia, either via Africa or South America, unless their ships defied the ban and explored such waters regardless ( they did, and the ban became unenforceable ).

On December 23, 2011, the Spanish Government officially acknowledges for the first time to Wicca as a religion, Wicca Tradition Celtiberian register in the Register of religious bodies with the reference 2560-GS / A, being the first country for Spain Europe and the second in the world after U. S., to recognize her.

This milestone is also clear that Portugal is de facto the second country in Europe and third in the world after the U. S. and Spain, to legalize a Wiccan Religious Worship.

* Picual, from southern Spain ( province of Jaén ), is the most widely cultivated olive in Spain, comprising about 50 % of Spain's olive production and around 20 % of world olive production.

Although Magellan himself died in the Philippines in 1521, Spanish navigator Juan Sebastian Elcano led the expedition back to Spain across the Indian Ocean and round the Cape of Good Hope, completing the first world circumnavigation in 1522.

Parts of Spain ( Hispania ) followed, and in the beginning of the 2nd century the Romans got involved in the affairs of the Greek world.

After the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, women became virtually the only source of Jewish ritual and tradition in the Catholic world in a phenomenon known as crypto-Judaism.

Anarcho-syndicalism was most powerful in Spain in and around the time of the Spanish Civil War, but also appeared in other parts of the world, such as in the US-based Industrial Workers of the World and the Unione Sindacale Italiana-the Italian Syndicalist Union.