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  2. Nationalities and regions of Spain - Wikipedia

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    Spain is a diverse country integrated by contrasting entities with varying economic and social structures, languages, and historical, political and cultural traditions. [1] [2] The Spanish constitution responds ambiguously to the claims of historic nationalities (such as the right of self-government) while proclaiming a common and indivisible homeland of all Spaniards.

  3. National and regional identity in Spain - Wikipedia

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    The modern division of Spain into Autonomous Communities embodies an attempt to recognise nationalities and regional identities within Spain as a basis for devolution of power. From the Reconquista onwards, in most parts of the peninsula, territories have identified themselves as distinct from the rest of Spain in one of three ways.

  4. Spaniards - Wikipedia

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    Spaniards, [a] or Spanish people, are a people native to Spain.Within Spain, there are a number of national and regional ethnic identities that reflect the country's complex history, including a number of different languages, both indigenous and local linguistic descendants of the Roman-imposed Latin language, of which Spanish is the largest and the only one that is official throughout the ...

  5. Gitanos - Wikipedia

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    The term gitano evolved from the word egiptano [10] ("Egyptian"), which was the Old Spanish demonym for someone from Egipto (Egypt). "Egiptano" was the regular adjective in Old Spanish for someone from Egypt, however, in Middle and Modern Spanish the irregular adjective egipcio supplanted egiptano to mean Egyptian, probably to differentiate Egyptians from Gypsies.

  6. Canary Islanders - Wikipedia

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    Canary Islanders, or Canarians (Spanish: canarios), are the people of the Canary Islands, an autonomous community of Spain near the coast of Northwest Africa.The distinctive variety of the Spanish language spoken in the region is known as habla canaria (Canary speech) or the (dialecto) canario (Canarian dialect).

  7. Nationalities of Spain - Wikipedia

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    Nationalities of Spain can refer to: Nationalities and regions of Spain, for constitutional designation of certain subnational political entities; National and regional identity in Spain, for political movements and ideologies; Spanish nationality law; Spaniards or Spanish people, a national term for people from any part of Spain

  8. List of the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula

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    Vettones – Ávila, Salamanca (Spain), and most of Cáceres (Spain) possibly a pre-Celtic Indo-European people, closely related to the Lusitani. If their language was not Celtic it might have been Para-Celtic like Ligurian (i.e. an Indo-European language branch not Celtic but more closely related to Celtic). A tribal confederation.

  9. History of the Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    A History of the Spanish language (sample from the second edition, 2002), by Ralph Penny; Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española (in Spanish) Linguistic Time Machine Archived 2011-12-03 at the Wayback Machine Check the historic evolution of Latin words to modern Spanish.