The Gibraltar Arc is a geological region corresponding to an arcuate orogen surrounding the Alboran Sea, between the Iberian Peninsula and Africa. It...
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In his work Historia de la Muy Noble y Más Leal Ciudad de Gibraltar (History of the Very Noble and Most Loyal City of Gibraltar), written between 1605...
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Alboran Sea (category Back-arc basins)
Mediterranean. An arc of mountains, known as the Gibraltar Arc, wraps around the northern, western and southern sides of the Alboran Sea. The Gibraltar Arc is made...
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currency of Gibraltar. It is pegged to – and exchangeable with – British pound sterling at par value. Coins and banknotes of the Gibraltar pound are issued...
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Serra de Tramuntana in the island of Majorca are, respectively, Soutwestern and Northeastern extensions of the Baetic System. The Gibraltar Arc geological...
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Fez lies within the southern part of the Rif, which forms part of the Gibraltar Arc. The Rif and the Betic Cordillera were formed during the Cenozoic, initially...
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Gulf of Cádiz (redirect from Golfo de Cádiz)
mechanisms: subduction associated with the westward emplacement of the Gibraltar Arc and formation of the Gulf of Cádiz accretionary wedge. The current activity...
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Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (redirect from Pierre Charles Silvestre de Villeneuve)
source of contention among historians ever since. His name is etched on the Arc de Triomphe. Hannay, David (1911). "Villeneuve, Pierre Charles Jean Baptiste...
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The Liberal Party of Gibraltar (Libs or LPG) is a liberal political party in Gibraltar. It was founded in 1991 as the Gibraltar National Party and is led...
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arc-shaped belts: the Gibraltar Arc, the Calabrian Arc, and the Aegean Arc. The kinematics and dynamics of this plate boundary and of the Gibraltar Arc...
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from the Holocene deformations observed along the southern border of Gibraltar arc". Tectonophysics. 712–713: 303–311. Bibcode:2017Tectp.712..303P. doi:10...
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promoted to teniente general de la Armada (i.e., vice-admiral). In that same year he participated in the Great Siege of Gibraltar, but his failure to prevent...
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Levant (wind) (redirect from Viento de Levante)
particularly when the wind blows through the Strait of Gibraltar, it is called the Viento de Levante or the Levanter. It is also known as the Solano...
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of Arc on the rock of Saint Helena". (This sentence mixes two major incidents in French history that can be related to the UK's perfidy: Joan of Arc, whose...
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Gibraltar until 1825 and continued to circulate alongside other Spanish and British currencies until 1898. After the Anglo-Dutch occupied Gibraltar in...
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appeared as the elder daughter of Burt Lancaster's dying patriarch in Rocket Gibraltar. That same year, she appeared in supporting roles in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels...
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The Lines of Contravallation of Gibraltar (Spanish: Línea de Contravalación de Gibraltar or Línea de Gibraltar), known in English as the "Spanish Lines"...
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under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Fierro, Alfredo; Palluel-Guillard, André; Tulard, Jean (1995). Histoire et Dictionnaire du Consulat et de l'Empire...
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Jean-Étienne Championnet (category Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe)
inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 3. Championnet joined the French Army at an early age and served in the Great Siege of Gibraltar. During the French...
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Louisiana and Florida and to seek a recapture of Gibraltar. The Spanish Captain-General of Louisiana, Bernardo de Gálvez, in 1779 launched several offensives...
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Geology of the Iberian Peninsula (redirect from Geology of Gibraltar)
From 50 km West North West convergence. The Betics are part of the Gibraltar Arc, which also includes the Rif in Morocco. During Triassic and Jurassic...
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Eugène-Casimir Villatte (category Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe)
2 of the Arc de Triomphe. Jason R. Musteen Nelson's Refuge: Gibraltar in the Age of Napoleon 2011 "However, his absence in front of Gibraltar left San...
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Mediterranean Sea (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
salinity crisis regulated by competing tectonics and erosion at the Gibraltar arc". Nature. 480 (7377): 359–363. Bibcode:2011Natur.480..359G. doi:10.1038/nature10651...
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embryonic subduction margin is potentially developing west of Gibraltar. The Gibraltar Arc in the western Mediterranean is migrating westward into the central...
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(United Kingdom) Werwolf (Nazi Germany) Operation Tracer (Gibraltar) Operation Goldeneye (Gibraltar), designed by Commander Ian Fleming of the British Royal...
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the Metropolitan Transport Consortium of Campo de Gibraltar. It belongs to the AB zone (Central Bay Arc). A few miles north is the freight station of San...
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coastline (2,952 km) and strategic position overseeing the Strait of Gibraltar, it (along with Spain and the United Kingdom) is deeply involved in the...
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Chefchaouen, Taounate). Geologically, the Rif Mountains belong to the Gibraltar Arc or Alborán Sea geological region. They are an extension of the Baetic...
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Location hypotheses of Atlantis (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
1968–1993 : Jerez de la Frontera, 1995, ISBN 84-87194-64-8, pags. 73-97 Collina-Girard, Jacques (2001): "L'Atlantide devant le détroit de Gibraltar? Mythe et...
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deposits and their transport to the areas of the Mediterranean Levantine arc. The Mediterranean became the main axis of trade which caused an intensification...
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