And you don't meet the folks from home in Northwest Spain which has remained almost untouched by time and tourists since the Middle Ages.

In fact, it was not until the King of Spain had visited at Pickfair that Mary and Doug were beckoned to cross the sacred barriers which separate Los Angeles and Pasadena from the hoi-polloi.

Aztlan Underground were signed to a Basque record label in 1999 which enabled them to tour Spain extensively and perform in France and Portugal.

Extreme instances of persecution include the pogroms which preceded the First Crusade in 1096, the expulsion from England in 1290, the massacres of Spanish Jews in 1391, the persecutions of the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion from Spain in 1492, Cossack massacres in Ukraine, various pogroms in Russia, the Dreyfus affair, the Final Solution by Hitler's Germany, official Soviet anti-Jewish policies and the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries.

Incantations by mystic names were characteristic of the hybrid Gnosticism planted in Spain and southern Gaul at the end of the fourth century and at the beginning of the fifth, which Jerome connects with Basilides, and which ( according to his Epist., lxxv.

In July 2006, the tomb of the king ( which is located in the Santa Cruz Monastery in Coimbra ) was to be opened for scientific purposes by researchers from the University of Coimbra ( Portugal ), and the University of Granada ( Spain ).

In the years before the Tokugawa shogunate, that innovative daimyo from Western Japan had been actively involved in negotiating trade and diplomatic treaties with Spain and with the colonies of New Spain ( Mexico ) and the Philippines ; and it was anticipated that the mere presence of the Princess could serve to underscore the range of possibilities which could be inferred from that little-known history.

* Third Treaty of San Ildefonso of 1800 between Spain and France, by which Spain returned Louisiana to France.

This violin, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, may have been part of a set made for the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559, which would make it one of the earliest known violins in existence.

Little is known of the family with certainty ; the Chambers Biographical Dictionary records that they arrived in Spain in the 8th century but the name is familiar from the romance by Ginés Perez de Hita, Guerras civiles de Granada, which celebrates the feuds of the Abencerrages and the rival family of the Zegris, and the cruel treatment to which the former were subjected.

While the town's name is generally seen as a diminutive form of Barcelona in Spain, Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing point out an earlier attestation of the name Barcilona in Barcelonnette in around 1200, and suggest that it is derived instead from two earlier stems signifying a mountain, * bar and * cin ( the latter of which is also seen in the name of Mont Cenis ).

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.

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 result was a large-scale immigration from poorer regions of Spain ( particularly Andalusia, Murcia and Galicia ), which in turn led to rapid urbanisation.

It comes from a Brythonic language community ( see image ) that once extended from Great Britain to Armorica ( present-day Brittany ) and which had even established a toehold in Galicia ( in present-day Spain ).

Spain, for example, passed a bankruptcy law ( ley concursal ) in 2003 which provides for debt settlement plans that can result in a reduction of the debt ( maximally half of the amount ) or an extension of the payment period of maximally five years ( Gerhardt, 2009 ); nevertheless, it does not foresee debt discharge.

During most of the colonial period, Costa Rica was the southernmost province of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which was nominally part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( i. e., Mexico ), but which in practice operated as a largely autonomous entity within the Spanish Empire.

Outside the Fuerza Pública, there is a small Special Forces Unit, the Unidad Especial de Intervencion ( UEI ) or Special Intervention Unit, which trains with special forces of Israel, and its namesake in Spain and other democratic nations, but is not part of the main police forces.

However, increased tensions between Spain and the United States, which culminated in the Spanish-American War, finally led to a Spanish withdrawal in 1898, and in 1902 Cuba gained formal independence.

At its peak, the Spain Fund traded near $ 35, nearly triple its Net Asset Value of about $ 12 per share.

Mauretania traded all over the Mediterranean, particularly with Spain and Italy.

Alone in Europe save for Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Ireland and the Vatican, Sweden maintained neutrality throughout all World War II, but like the mentioned countries, cooperated and traded with both sides.

From early in the archaeological record, the peoples of North West Europe, including Britain, Gaul, Spain and Ireland had mutually warred, traded and settled.

Manado was further developed by Spain to become the center of commerce for the Chinese traders who traded the coffee in China.

After that continental win, Futre was traded to Atlético de Madrid in Spain, earning a reported annual salary of € 650, 000.

Portugal laid claim to it, and then traded it to Spain.

Manado was further developed by Spain to become the center of commerce for the Chinese traders who traded the coffee in China.

The first of these arrived in 1763 when Spain traded Florida to Great Britain.

They are traded in various financial markets, including those of the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, India and others.

The dispute was not resolved until 1819, when Spain traded Florida to the United States in return for recognition of the Sabine River as Texas's eastern boundary.

Carthaginians and Greeks also traded with Spain and established their own colonies on the coast.

They traded also with Spain and with England.

The aim was to secede Cuba from Spain, and annex it as a US state as Florida had been in 1824 through the Adams-Onis Treaty.

In 1762, Havana was briefly occupied by Great Britain, before being returned to Spain in exchange for Florida.

The treaty gave Britain Florida in exchange for Cuba on the recommendation of the French, who advised that declining the offer could result in Spain losing Mexico and much of the South American mainland to the British.

Concerning its domestic borders, the 1803 Louisiana Purchase doubled the nation's geographical area ; Spain ceded the territory of Florida in 1819 ; annexation brought Texas in 1845 ; a war with Mexico in 1848 added California, Arizona and New Mexico.

* 1819 – By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U. S. dollars.

The Treaties of Versailles which ceded Minorca and Florida to Spain, reaffirmed previous treaties in the rest of issues, thus not affecting to Gibraltar.

Fearing that Britain's victory over France in the Seven Years War ( 1756 – 1763 ) threatened the European balance of power, Spain allied themselves to France but suffered a series of military defeats and ended up having to cede Florida to the British at the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), which ended the Seven Years ' War.

Spain, nearly bankrupt from the war with France and the reconstruction of the country, was unable to pay her soldiers, and in 1819 was forced to sell Florida to the United States for 5 million dollars.

As Secretary of State, he negotiated with the United Kingdom over America's northern border with Canada, negotiated with Spain the annexation of Florida, and authored the Monroe Doctrine.

Adams used the events that had unfolded in Florida to negotiate the Florida Treaty with Spain in 1819 that turned Florida over to the U. S. and resolved border issues regarding the Louisiana Purchase.

* 1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.

* 1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.

As president, he bought Florida from Spain and sought to ease partisan tensions, embarking on a tour of the country that was well received everywhere.

Relations with Spain over the purchase of Spanish Florida proved to be troublesome, especially after Andrew Jackson invaded that territory on what he believed to be the president's authorization, which Monroe later denied giving.

But largely through the skillful work of John Quincy Adams, a treaty was signed with Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the United States in return for the assumption of $ 5, 000, 000 in claims and the relinquishment of any claims to Texas.

The eastern boundary below the 31st parallel was unclear ; the U. S. claimed the land as far as the Perdido River, and Spain claimed the border of its Florida Colony remained the Mississippi river.

Spain ceded Florida to Britain.

French claims to Florida came to an end in 1565 when a hurricane destroyed the French fleet, allowing Spain to conquer Fort Caroline.

* Spain completes the construction of Fort Matanzas in the Matanzas Inlet, approximately south of St. Augustine, Florida.

The Adams – Onís Treaty, signed in 1819 and ratified by Spain in 1821, ceded Florida to the United States, and established a boundary between New Spain and the United States.

Spain would also lose Florida to the United States during this decade.

First, in 1810, the Republic of West Florida declared its independence from Spain, and was quickly annexed by the United States.