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Llívia (Catalan pronunciation:; Spanish: Llivia Spanish: ⓘ) is a town in the comarca of Cerdanya, province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. It is a Spanish exclave surrounded by the French département of Pyrénées-Orientales. [4] In 2023, the municipality of Llívia had a total population of 1,511. [5]
Llívia municipal boundary sign. The war of the stop signs [1] (Catalan: La guerra dels Stops, Spanish: Guerra de los stops, French: Guerre des Stops) was an event that happened on the N-154 [es; ca; fr] / D-68 road that connects the town and Spanish exclave of Llívia with Puigcerdà (Spanish border city next to France) between the early 1970s and the 1980s.
Northern Catalonia, North Catalonia [a] or French Catalonia is the formerly Catalan-speaking and cultural territory ceded to France by Spain through the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 in exchange of France's effective renunciation on the formal protection that it had given to the recently founded Catalan Republic.
The Treaty of the Pyrenees [1] was signed on 7 November 1659 and ended the Franco-Spanish War that had begun in 1635. [2]Negotiations were conducted and the treaty was signed on Pheasant Island, situated in the middle of the Bidasoa River on the border between the two countries, which has remained a French-Spanish condominium ever since.
The Rif War (Tarifit: ⴰⵎⴻⵏⵖⵉ ⵏ ⴰⵔⵉⴼ, romanized: Amenɣi n Arif, Arabic: حرب الريف, romanized: ḥarb ar-rīf, Spanish: Guerra del Rif) was an armed conflict fought from 1921 to 1926 between Spain (joined by France in 1924) and the Berber (Amazigh) tribes of the mountainous Rif region of northern Morocco.
The streets of a town in eastern Spain were awash in red on Wednesday as revellers flung overripe tomatoes at each other in a high-spirited battle royale during the traditional Tomatina festival.
Fort Caroline was an attempted French colonial settlement in Florida, located on the banks of the St. Johns River in present-day Duval County.It was established under the leadership of René Goulaine de Laudonnière on 22 June 1564, following King Charles IX's enlisting of Jean Ribault and his Huguenot settlers to stake a claim in French Florida ahead of Spain.
Dani said: “We’ve found the body of a woman hugging her three-month-old dead baby. Neighbours had to remove the body themselves because we haven’t received help yet.”