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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]
La Retirada (English: the withdrawal or the retreat) was the exodus to France from Spain between 28 January 1939 and 15 February 1939 of nearly 500,000 Republican soldiers and civilians near the end of the Spanish Civil War.
The camp was located near the Mediterranean coast at the foot of the northern side of the Albera Massif in Roussillon, 8 km north of the French-Spanish border. [ 2 ] The camp at Argelers received more than 100,000 Spanish men and women, of both civilian and military backgrounds. [ 3 ]
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.
My town is a cemetery’: Spanish flood victim reveals horror in town where 62 have died. Salma Ouaguira. November 2, 2024 at 5:18 AM. ... in Paiporta, near Valencia, Spain (Reuters)
By Nacho Doce and Eva Manez. PAIPORTA, Spain (Reuters) - Some came armed with mops and buckets, pick-axes or shovels, others carried bottles of drinking water and bags of food.
Clipperton Island (French: La Passion–Clipperton [la pasjɔ̃ klipœʁtɔn]; Spanish: Isla de la Pasión), also known as Clipperton Atoll [5] and previously as Clipperton's Rock, [6] is an 8.9 km 2 (3.4 sq mi) uninhabited French coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean.