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As of 2004 Spain had some 2,000+ book publishers in the private sector, including Prensa Española , and Prisa. [7] As of 2013 there were 809 publishing enterprises. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization designated Madrid the 2001 World Book Capital .
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.
The work is a history of Spain chiefly over the course of 2000 years, though with some consideration of earlier periods; one part of it, for instance, describes the existence of Homo antecessor (a predecessor of human beings) who has been unearthed as living in what is now Spain 800,000 years ago, as well as the discovery of Neanderthal remains in a place such as Gibraltar.
The Penguin History of Europe is a popular book series about the history of Europe, published by Penguin Books. [1] The series includes: The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine (2011) by Simon Price and Peter Thonemann; The Inheritance of Rome: Europe 400–1000 (2010) by Chris Wickham
Manuscript of the Estoria de España of Alfonso X of Castile.. The Estoria de España ("History of Spain"), also known in the 1906 edition of Ramón Menéndez Pidal as the Primera Crónica General ("First General Chronicle"), is a history book written on the initiative of Alfonso X of Castile "El Sabio" ("the Wise"), reigned 1252-1284, and who was actively involved in the chronicle's editing.
De rebus Hispaniae consists of nine books that contain the history of the peninsula from the first peoples to the year 1243. For the first time in Spanish historiography, Jiménez de Rada used sources from Al Andalus and developed a view of all the peninsular territories including the kingdoms of Aragon , Navarre , Portugal , Castile , León ...
As an atheist, Sánchez took the oath to protect the constitution without a bible or crucifix - a first in Spain's modern history. [5] In November 2019, Socialist Party (PSOE) of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez won the highest number of seats but fell short of an absolute majority in the parliamentary election.
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