Can you find Spain on a map? What else do you know about this European nation with about 47 million people?
Can you find Spain on a map? What else do you know about this European nation with about 47 million people?
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How Much Do You Know About Spain?
Compiled byJOHN OTISMAY 18, 2020
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Literature
In 1605, Miguel de Cervantes wrote, widely considered to be the world’s first modern novel.
Beowulf
Doctor Faustus
Don Quixote
Troilus and Cressida
Geography
The well-trodden city ofin northeastern Spain is home to La Sagrada Família basilica, which has been under construction for more than 130 years.
Barcelona
Pamplona
Seville
Valencia
History
Theoccupied Spain for 800 years, leaving many architectural traces like the Alhambra palace in Granada and the Bisagra Gate in Toledo.
Goths
Huns
Moors
Vikings
Culture
The annualritual, or “txotx,” is just one of many Basque Country cultural touchstones that make this autonomous coastal region a very different place than the rest of Spain.
cider
glassblowing
paprika
tomato
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