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Spain's history during the nineteenth century was tumultuous, and featured alternating periods of republican-liberal and monarchical rule. The Spanish–American War led to losses of Spanish colonial possessions and a series of military dictatorships, during which King Alfonso XIII was deposed and a new Republican government was formed.
Some regions are better known for their cheeses than others; 26 cheeses are classified as Protected Designation of Origin (D.O.P.— Denominación de Origen Protegida) and 3 additional cheeses are classified as Protected Geographical Indication (I.G.P. - Indicación Geográfica Protegida) [1] by Spain and the European Union. Many of the cheeses ...
Spain, [f] officially the Kingdom of Spain, [a] [g] is a country in Southwestern Europe with territories in North Africa. [ h ] Featuring the southernmost point of continental Europe , it is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union member state.
Preserved cheese dating from 1615 BC was found in the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang, China. [36] Local cheese today is commonly made or available in most of South Asia in the form of paneer and related cheeses. Rubing in Yunnan, China is similar to paneer. Mainstream Chinese culture is not dairy-centric, but some outlying regions of the country ...
Geographical map of Spain Map of Spain (Instituto Geográfico Nacional, 2000) Map of Spain and Portugal, Corrected and Augmented from the Map Published by D. Tomas Lopez, 1810. Spain is a country located in southwestern Europe occupying most (about 82 percent) of the Iberian Peninsula.
Present-day Spain was formed in the wake of the expansion of the Christian states in northern Spain, a process known as the Reconquista. The Reconquista, ending with the Fall of Granada in 1492, was followed by a contested process of religious and linguistic unification and political centralisation, which began under the Catholic Monarchs and ...
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Farmstead cheese, more commonly known in Europe as farmhouse cheese, is produced from the milk collected on the same farm where the cheese is produced. Unlike artisan cheese , which may also include milk purchased and transported from off-farm sources, farmstead cheese makers use milk only from animals they raise. [ 1 ]