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- 9th-century establishments in Spain
- Populated places established in the 9th century
A Coruña
A Coruña (La Coruña; also informally called just Coruña; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality in Galicia, Spain.
A-1 (autovía)
The A-1 (also informally known as Autovía del Norte; Iparraldeko Autobia) is a Spanish autovía route which starts in Madrid and ends in Irun.
ABC (newspaper)
ABC is a Spanish national daily newspaper.
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ABC-Clio
ABC-Clio, LLC (stylized ABC-CLIO) is an American publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings.
Absolute monarchy
Absolute monarchy is a form of monarchy in which the sovereign is the sole source of political power, unconstrained by constitutions, legislatures or other checks on their authority.
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Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi (أَبُو ظَبِي) is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Accounting
Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entities, such as businesses and corporations.
ACS Group
ACS, Actividades de Construcción y Servicios, S.A. is a Spanish company dedicated to civil engineering, construction, all types of services and telecommunications.
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
Agnosticism
Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact.
Air cargo
Air cargo is any property carried or to be carried in an aircraft.
Airbnb
Airbnb, Inc. is an American company operating an online marketplace for short-and-long-term homestays and experiences in various countries and regions.
Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.
Alans
The Alans (Latin: Alani) were an ancient and medieval Iranic nomadic pastoral people who migrated to what is today North Caucasus – while some continued on to Europe and later North-Africa.
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Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón
Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez (born 11 December 1958) is a Spanish politician and former Minister of Justice.
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Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),Müller, Peter O. (1993) Substantiv-Derivation in Den Schriften Albrecht Dürers, Walter de Gruyter.
Alcalá de Henares
Alcalá de Henares is a Spanish city in the Community of Madrid. Madrid and Alcalá de Henares are municipalities in the Community of Madrid.
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Alcobendas
Alcobendas is a municipality of Spain located in the Community of Madrid. Madrid and Alcobendas are municipalities in the Community of Madrid.
Alejandro de la Sota (architect)
Alejandro de la Sota Martínez (October 20, 1913 - 14 February 1996) was a Spanish architect.
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Alfonso VI of León and Castile
Alfonso VI (1 July 1109), nicknamed the Brave (El Bravo) or the Valiant, was king of León (10651109), Galicia (10711109), and Castile (10721109).
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Alfonso VII of León and Castile
Alfonso VII (1 March 110521 August 1157), called the Emperor (el Emperador), became the King of Galicia in 1111 and King of León and Castile in 1126.
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Alfonso VIII of Castile
Alfonso VIII (11 November 11555 October 1214), called the Noble (El Noble) or the one of Las Navas (el de las Navas), was King of Castile from 1158 to his death and King of Toledo.
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Alfonso XI of Castile
Alfonso XI (11 August 131126 March 1350), called the Avenger (el Justiciero), was King of Castile and León.
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Alfonso XIII
Alfonso XIII (Spanish: Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena; French: Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941), also known as El Africano or the African due to his Africanist views, was King of Spain from his birth until 14 April 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed.
Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium
The Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium (Spanish: Estadio Alfredo Di Stéfano) is a football stadium in Madrid, Spain.
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Almendra Central
The Almendra Central (Central Almond) is a zone of Madrid comprising seven districts: Centro, Arganzuela, Retiro, Salamanca, Chamartín, Tetuán, and Chamberí, (even though, sometimes, the City Council of Madrid includes part of an eighth, Moncloa-Aravaca, specifically the Argüelles yard, all inside the M30 motorway.
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Almond
The almond (Prunus amygdalus, syn. Prunus dulcis) is a species of tree from the genus Prunus.
Almoravid dynasty
The Almoravid dynasty (lit) was a Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco.
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Almudena Cathedral
The Cathedral of Saint Mary the Royal of the Almudena, commonly known as the Almudena Cathedral for short, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Madrid, the capital city of Spain.
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Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Ana Botella
Ana Botella Serrano (born 23 July 1953) is a Spanish politician who served as the Mayor of Madrid from the end of 2011 until 2015 and the Spouse of the Prime Minister when her husband José María Aznar.
Andalusi Arabic
Andalusi Arabic or Andalusian Arabic was a variety or varieties of Arabic spoken mainly from the 9th to the 15th century in Al-Andalus, the regions of the Iberian Peninsula, respectively modern Spain until the late-15th century, and modern Portugal until the mid-13th century under Muslim rule.
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Andalusi Romance
Andalusi Romance, also called Mozarabic or Ajami, refers to the varieties of Ibero-Romance that developed in Al-Andalus, the parts of the medieval Iberian Peninsula under Islamic control.
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Andorra la Vella
Andorra la Vella is the capital and largest city of Andorra. Madrid and Andorra la Vella are capitals in Europe.
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Anno Domini
The terms anno Domini. (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.
Antena 3 (Spanish TV channel)
Antena 3 (Antena Tres) is a Spanish terrestrial television channel part of Atresmedia, of which it is the flagship station.
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Anthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (i; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.
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Anti-austerity movement in Spain
The anti-austerity movement in Spain, also referred to as the 15-M Movement (Spanish: Movimiento 15-M), and the Indignados Movement, was a series of protests, demonstrations, and occupations against austerity policies in Spain that began around the local and regional elections of 2011 and 2012.
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Anti-fascism
Anti-fascism is a political movement in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals.
Antonio López García
Antonio López García (born 6 January 1936) is a Spanish painter and sculptor, known for his realistic style.
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Antonio Palacios
Antonio Palacios Ramilo (8 January 1874 – 27 October 1945) was a Spanish architect.
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Antonio Stradivari
Antonio Stradivari (also,; – 18 December 1737) was an Italian luthier and a craftsman of string instruments such as violins, cellos, guitars, violas and harps.
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Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
Arbutus unedo
Arbutus unedo, commonly known as strawberry tree, or chorleywood in the United Kingdom, is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean Basin and Western Europe.
Arganzuela
Arganzuela is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain.
Aristotle Mountains
Aristotle Mountains is the fan-shaped sequence of ridges spreading east-northeastwards from its summit Madrid Dome (1647 m) on Oscar II Coast in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Arturo Soria y Mata
Arturo Soria y Mata (1844-1920) was an internationally important Spanish urban planner whose work remains highly inspirational today.
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Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
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Assembly of Madrid
The Assembly of Madrid or Madrid Assembly (Asamblea de Madrid) is the unicameral autonomous legislature of the Autonomous Community of Madrid since the approval of the Madrid Charter of Autonomy in 1983.
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Asunción
Asunción is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay.
Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.
Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. Madrid and Athens are capitals in Europe.
Atlético Madrid
Club Atlético de Madrid, S.A.D. (meaning "Athletic Club of Madrid"), known simply as Atleti in Spanish-speaking countries and commonly referred to at the international level as Atlético Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid that plays in La Liga.
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ATP Masters 1000 tournaments
The ATP Masters events, known as ATP Masters 1000 tournaments since 2009, are an annual series of nine tennis tournaments featuring the top-ranked players on the ATP Tour since its inception in 1990.
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Atresmedia
Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación, S.A., previously Grupo Antena 3, is a Spanish media group, present in the television, radio and filmmaking industries.
Auguste Rodin
François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture.
Austerity
In economic policy, austerity is a set of political-economic policies that aim to reduce government budget deficits through spending cuts, tax increases, or a combination of both.
Autonomous communities of Spain
In Spain, an autonomous community (comunidad autónoma) is the first sub-national level of political and administrative division, created in accordance with the Spanish Constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing limited autonomy of the nationalities and regions that make up Spain.
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Autonomous University of Madrid
The Autonomous University of Madrid (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; UAM), commonly known as la Autónoma, is a Spanish public university located in Madrid, Spain.
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Autopista de Circunvalación M-30
The M-30 orbital motorway circles the central districts of Madrid, the capital city of Spain.
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Autopista de Circunvalación M-40
The M-40, in Spanish transport, is a Madrid orbital motorway.
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Autovía
An autovía is one of two classes of major highway in the Spanish road system similar to a British motorway or an American freeway.
Autovía A-2
The Autovía A-2 (also called Autovia del Nordeste and Avenida de América, Autovia del Nord-est) is a Spanish autovía and autopista route which starts in Madrid and ends in Barcelona.
Autovía A-3
The Autovía A-3 (also called Autovía del Este) (Autovia de l’Est) is a Spanish autovía that starts in Madrid and ends in Valencia.
Autovía A-4
The Highway A-4 or Autopista AP-4 (also called Autovía del Sur that means Southern Autovía) is a Spanish highway and autopista route which starts in Madrid and ends in Cádiz.
Autovía A-42
The Autovía A-42 (also known as Autovía de Toledo) is a Spanish autovía which connects Madrid to Toledo.
Autovía A-5
The Autovía A-5 (also called Autovía del Suroeste) is a Spanish autovía which starts in Madrid and ends at the Portugal–Spain border, near Badajoz, where it connects to the Portuguese A6 motorway.
Autovía A-6
The Autovía A-6 or Autopista AP-6 (also called Autovía del Noroeste) (Autovía do Noroeste) is a Spanish autovía and autopista route that starts in Madrid and ends in Arteixo (A Coruña).
AVE
Alta Velocidad Española (AVE) is a high-speed rail service operated by Renfe, the Spanish State railway company.
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¡Hola!
¡Hola! is a weekly Spanish-language magazine specializing in celebrity news, published in Madrid, Spain, and in 15 other countries, with local editions in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Greece, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela.
Badajoz
Badajoz (formerly written Badajos in English) is the capital of the Province of Badajoz in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain. Madrid and Badajoz are 9th-century establishments in Spain and Populated places established in the 9th century.
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., better known by its initialism BBVA, is a Spanish multinational financial services company based in Madrid and Bilbao, Spain.
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Bank
A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans.
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Bank of Spain
The Bank of Spain (Banco de España) is Spain's central bank and the Spanish member of the Eurosystem and has been the monetary authority for Spain from 1874 to 1998, issuing the Spanish peseta.
Bar (establishment)
A bar, also known as a saloon, a tavern or tippling house, or sometimes as a pub or club, is an establishment retail business that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails, and other beverages such as mineral water and soft drinks.
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Barajas (Madrid)
Barajas is a district of the city of Madrid, Spain.
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Barcelona
Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (late December 1617, baptized January 1, 1618April 3, 1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter.
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Basílica pontificia de San Miguel
The Pontifical Basilica of St.
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Battle of Villalar
The Battle of Villalar was a battle in the Revolt of the Comuneros fought on 23 April 1521 near the town of Villalar in Valladolid province, Spain.
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Bayonne
Bayonne (Baiona; Baiona; Bayona) is a city in Southwestern France near the Spanish border.
Bear
Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae.
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Beijing
Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.
Belgrade
Belgrade. Madrid and Belgrade are capitals in Europe.
Benito Pérez Galdós
Benito Pérez Galdós (10 May 1843 – 4 January 1920) was a Spanish realist novelist.
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Berg Publishers
Berg Publishers was an academic publishing company based in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England and Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population. Madrid and Berlin are capitals in Europe.
Betting shop
In the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, a betting shop is a shop away from a racecourse ("off-course") where one can legally place bets in person with a licensed bookmaker.
Biblioteca Nacional de España
The (National Library of Spain) is a major public library, the largest in Spain, and one of the largest in the world.
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Bicha of Balazote
The Bicha of Balazote is an Iberian sculpture that was found in the borough of Balazote in Albacete province (Castile-La Mancha), Spain.
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Boadilla del Monte
Boadilla del Monte is a Spanish town and municipality located in the west of the Community of Madrid, inside its metropolitan area. Madrid and Boadilla del Monte are municipalities in the Community of Madrid.
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Bogotá
Bogotá (also), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá during the Spanish Colonial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital and largest city of Colombia, and one of the largest cities in the world.
Bohemian Lights
Bohemian Lights, or Luces de Bohemia in the original Spanish, is a play written by Ramón del Valle-Inclán, published in 1924.
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Boiled egg
Boiled eggs are eggs, typically from a chicken, cooked with their shells unbroken, usually by immersion in boiling water.
Boletín Oficial del Estado
The (BOE; "label", from 1661 to 1936 known as the Gaceta de Madrid, "label") is the official gazette of the Kingdom of Spain and may be published on any day of the week.
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Bolsa de Madrid
(Madrid Stock Exchange) is the largest and most international of Spain's four regional stock exchanges (the others are located in Barcelona, Valencia, and Bilbao) that trade shares and convertible bonds and fixed income securities, and both government and private-sector debt.
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Bond (finance)
In finance, a bond is a type of security under which the issuer (debtor) owes the holder (creditor) a debt, and is obliged – depending on the terms – to provide cash flow to the creditor (e.g. repay the principal (i.e. amount borrowed) of the bond at the maturity date as well as interest (called the coupon) over a specified amount of time).
Bordeaux
Bordeaux (Gascon Bordèu; Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France.
Botanical garden
A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms botanic and botanical and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens.
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Botellón
Botellón (Spanish for "big bottle") is a Spanish activity when people congregate in public areas to socialize while drinking alcohol.
Brasília
Brasília is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District, located in the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West region.
Bream
Bream are species of freshwater fish belonging to a variety of genera including Abramis (e.g., A. brama, the common bream), Ballerus, Blicca, Brama, Chilotilapia, Etelis, Lepomis, Gymnocranius, Lethrinus, Nemipterus, Pharyngochromis, Rhabdosargus, Scolopsis, or Serranochromis.
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Bridge of Toledo (Madrid)
The Bridge of Toledo (Spanish: Puente de Toledo) is a bridge located in Madrid, Spain.
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Brussels
Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.
Brussels tapestry
Brussels tapestry workshops produced tapestry from at least the 15th century, but the city's early production in the Late Gothic International style was eclipsed by the more prominent tapestry-weaving workshops based in Arras and Tournai.
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Buccaneer
Buccaneers were a kind of privateer or free sailors particular to the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Budapest
Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. Madrid and Budapest are capitals in Europe.
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.
Built environment
The term built environment refers to human-made conditions and is often used in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, public health, sociology, and anthropology, among others.
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Bullfighting
Bullfighting is a physical contest that involves a bullfighter attempting to subdue, immobilize, or kill a bull, usually according to a set of rules, guidelines, or cultural expectations.
Burning of convents in Spain (1931)
Between May 10 and May 13, 1931, over one hundred convents and other religious buildings were deliberately burned down by anarchists and other Far Left anticlericalists in Spain during riots that started in Madrid and spread throughout the country.
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Bus
A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but less than the average rail transport.
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Business
Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services).
Business school
A business school is a higher education institution or professional school that teaches courses leading to degrees in business administration or management.
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C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group is a group of 96 cities around the world that represents one twelfth of the world's population and one quarter of the global economy.
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Cadena COPE
COPE, an acronym for Cadena de Ondas Populares Españolas ("People's Radiowaves of Spain Network") formerly called Radio Popular, is a Spanish language radio station.
Cadena Dial
Cadena Dial is a Spanish radio station.
Cadena SER
La Cadena SER (the SER Network) is a Spanish radio network established in 1924, with a regular listenership of 4,139,000 reported in 2018.
CaixaForum Madrid
CaixaForum Madrid is a cultural center in Madrid, Spain.
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Caja Mágica
Caja Mágica (Magic Box), also known as the Manzanares Park Tennis Center, is a multi-purpose stadium located in Madrid, Spain.
Calle de Alcalá
Calle de Alcalá is among the longest streets in Madrid.
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Canal de Isabel II
Canal de Isabel II (CYII) is the only company that manages the water supplies for Madrid, Spain.
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Capital city
A capital city or just capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational division, usually as its seat of the government.
Carabanchel
Carabanchel is a district of Madrid, Spain.
Caracas
Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas).
Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio;,,; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life.
Carnival
Carnival or Shrovetide is a festive season that occurs at the close of the Christian pre-Lenten period, consisting of Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras.
Carpetani
The Carpetani were one of the Celtic peoples inhabiting the Iberian Peninsula prior to the Roman conquest.
Caryatid Building
Edificio de Las Cariátides (Caryatid Building) is a building in the Spanish capital of Madrid built by Spanish architect, Antonio Palacios.
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Casa de Campo
The Casa de Campo (for Spanish: Country House) is the largest public park in Madrid.
Casa de Velázquez
The Casa de Velázquez is a French school in Spain modelled on the Villa Médicis in Rome, and Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algeria.
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Casablanca
Casablanca (lit) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre.
Castro District, San Francisco
The Castro District, commonly referred to as the Castro, is a neighborhood in Eureka Valley in San Francisco.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Cave of Altamira
The Cave of Altamira (Cueva de Altamira) is a cave complex, located near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain.
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Cádiz
Cádiz is a city in Spain and the capital of the Province of Cádiz, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.
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Círculo de Bellas Artes
The Círculo de Bellas Artes is a private, non-profit, cultural organization that was founded in 1880.
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Córdoba, Spain
Córdoba, or sometimes Cordova, is a city in Andalusia, Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba.
CB Estudiantes
Club Baloncesto Estudiantes, S.A.D., (English: Club Basketball Students) known simply as Estu and as Movistar Estudiantes for sponsorship reasons, is a basketball team based in the city of Madrid, Spain.
CD Leganés
Club Deportivo Leganés, S.A.D. is a football club based in Leganés, Community of Madrid, that currently competes in La Liga, the first tier of the Spanish league system.
Cebu City
Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu (Dakbayan sa Sugbo; Dakbanwa sang Cebu; Lungsod ng Cebu), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines.
Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
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Central bank
A central bank, reserve bank, national bank, or monetary authority is an institution that manages the currency and monetary policy of a country or monetary union.
Central station
Central stations or central railway stations emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as railway stations that had initially been built on the edge of city centres were enveloped by urban expansion and became an integral part of the city centres themselves.
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Centro (Madrid)
Centro ("Centre") is a district of Madrid, Spain.
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Cercanías Madrid
Cercanías Madrid is the commuter rail service that serves Madrid, the capital of Spain, and its metropolitan area.
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Cerralbo Museum
The Cerralbo Museum (Museo Cerralbo) is an art museum in Madrid, Spain.
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Chamartín (Madrid)
Chamartín is an administrative district of Madrid, Spain and consists of the following neighbourhoods: El Viso, La Prosperidad, Ciudad Jardín, Hispanoamérica, Nueva España, and Castilla.
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Chamartín Symphony Orchestra
The Chamartín Symphony Orchestra (Orquesta Sinfónica Chamartín) is a symphony orchestra based in Madrid, Spain.
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Chamberí
Chamberí is a district of Madrid, Spain.
Chapel of the Bishop, Madrid
The Bishop's Chapel (Spanish: Capilla del Obispo de Madrid) is a chapel, located in Madrid, Spain, which was built in the 16th century.
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Charles III of Spain
Charles III (Carlos Sebastián de Borbón y Farnesio; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain in the years 1759 to 1788.
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Charles III University of Madrid
University Charles III of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) (UC3M) is a public university in the Community of Madrid, Spain.
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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V (Ghent, 24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555.
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Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles VI (Karl; Carolus; 1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740) was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1711 until his death, succeeding his elder brother, Joseph I.
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Cheli
Cheli is a Spanish-language juvenile sociolect or jargon diatopically restricted to the Madrid area, developed in the 1970s, primarily associated to the post-Francoist counterculture.
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Chickpea
The chickpea or chick pea (Cicer arietinum) is an annual legume of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae.
Chongqing
Chongqing is a municipality in Southwestern China.
Chueca, Madrid
Chueca is an area of central Madrid, named after its main square, Plaza de Chueca.
Church of Saint Jerome the Royal
Saint Jerome the Royal (in Spanish San Jerónimo el Real) is a Roman Catholic church from the early 16th-century in central Madrid (Spain).
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Churrigueresque
Churrigueresque (Spanish: Churrigueresco), also but less commonly "Ultra Baroque", refers to a Spanish Baroque style of elaborate sculptural architectural ornament which emerged as a manner of stucco decoration in Spain in the late 17th century and was used until about 1750, marked by extreme, expressive and florid decorative detailing, normally found above the entrance on the main façade of a building.
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Cinco Días
Cinco Días (Five Days) is a business and finance newspaper published in Madrid, Spain.
Ciudad Lineal
Ciudad Lineal ("Linear City") is one of 21 districts of Madrid, Spain.
Ciudad Real Madrid
The Ciudad Real Madrid Florentino Pérez is Real Madrid's training complex, located outside Madrid in Valdebebas near Barajas airport.
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Clan (TV channel)
Clan is a Spanish free-to-air television channel owned and operated by Televisión Española (TVE), the television division of state-owned public broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE).
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Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorrain (born Claude Gellée, called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era.
Climate of Madrid
Madrid and its metropolitan area has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification: BSk) which transitions to a mediterranean climate (Csa) on the western half of the city.
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Club of Madrid
Club de Madrid is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization created to promote democracy and change in the international community.
CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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Cocido madrileño
Cocido madrileño ("Madrid stew") is a traditional chickpea-based stew from Madrid, Spain.
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Colegio Imperial de Madrid
The Colegio Imperial de Madrid (Spanish for the "Imperial College of Madrid"), also historically known as the Colegio Imperial de la Compañía de Jesús ("Imperial College of the Society of Jesus") or the Colegio de San Pedro y San Pablo de la Compañía de Jesús en la Corte ("College of St.
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Colmenar Viejo
Colmenar Viejo is a town and municipality of about 48,614 inhabitants, located in the Community of Madrid, Spain, 30 kilometers north of Madrid on the M-607 motorway. Madrid and Colmenar Viejo are municipalities in the Community of Madrid.
Comillas Pontifical University
Comillas Pontifical University (Universidad Pontificia Comillas) is a private Catholic higher education institution run by the Spanish Province of the Society of Jesus in Madrid, Spain.
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Community of Madrid
The Community of Madrid (Comunidad de Madrid) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain.
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Community of Madrid Orchestra
The Community of Madrid Orchestra (Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid), founded in 1987, is a symphony orchestra in Madrid, Spain.
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Commuter rail
Commuter rail, or suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns.
Complutense University of Madrid
The Complutense University of Madrid (Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, Universidad de Madrid, Universidad Central de Madrid; Universitas Complutensis Matritensis) is a public research university located in Madrid.
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Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about those names and the relevant geographical features.
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Computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation.
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Concert
A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience.
Constitution of Spain
The Spanish Constitution (Constitución Española) is the supreme law of the Kingdom of Spain.
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Construction
Construction is a general term meaning the art and science of forming objects, systems, or organizations.
Consumption (economics)
Consumption is the act of using resources to satisfy current needs and wants.
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Continental Celtic languages
The Continental Celtic languages are the now-extinct group of the Celtic languages that were spoken on the continent of Europe and in central Anatolia, as distinguished from the Insular Celtic languages of the British Isles and Brittany.
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Convent of Las Descalzas Reales
The Convent of Las Descalzas Reales (Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales) is a royal monastery situated in Madrid, Spain, administered by the Patrimonio Nacional.
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Copa del Rey
The, commonly known as, or (in English) the Spanish Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanish football, organized by the Royal Spanish Football Federation.
Copa del Rey de Baloncesto
The Copa del Rey de Baloncesto (English: Basketball King's Cup) is an annual cup competition for Spanish basketball teams organized by Spain's top professional league, the Liga ACB.
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Cornu aspersum
Cornu aspersum (syn. Helix aspersa, Cryptomphalus aspersus), known by the common name garden snail, is a species of land snail in the family Helicidae, which includes some of the most familiar land snails.
Corral de comedias
Corral de comedias is a type of open-air theatre specific to Spain.
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Council of Ministers (Spain)
The Council of Ministers (Consejo de Ministros) is the main collective decision-making body of the Government of Spain, and it is exclusively composed of the Prime Minister, the deputy prime ministers and the ministers (22 as of 2024).
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Cuartel del Conde-Duque
The Cuartel del Conde-Duque (Spanish: Cuartel del Conde-Duque) is a building located in Madrid, Spain.
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Cuatro (TV channel)
Cuatro (stylized as cuatro°, "Four") is a Spanish free-to-air television channel that was launched in November 2005.
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Cuatro Torres Business Area
The Cuatro Torres Business Area (CTBA), also known as the Área de Negocios de las Cuatro Torres (Spanish for "Four Towers Business Area"), is a business district located in the Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid, Spain, on the former Ciudad Deportiva of Real Madrid.
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Culture
Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.
Cybele Palace
Cibeles Palace (Palacio de Cibeles), formally known as Palacio de Comunicaciones (Palace of Communications) and Palacio de Telecomunicaciones (Palace of Telecommunications) until 2011, is a complex composed of two buildings with white facades and is located in one of the historical centres of Madrid, Spain.
Cycle sport
Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles.
Davao City
Davao City, officially the City of Davao (Dakbayan sa Dabaw; Dakbanwa sang Davao; Lungsod ng Dabaw), is a highly urbanized city in the Davao Region, Philippines.
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis.
Dámaso Alonso
Dámaso Alonso y Fernández de las Redondas (22 October 1898 – 25 January 1990) was a Spanish poet, philologist and literary critic.
Demonym
A demonym or gentilic is a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place.
Developing country
A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
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Diario AS
Diario AS (sometime stylized as AS or As) is a Spanish daily sports newspaper that concentrates particularly on football.
Diego Velázquez
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Knight of the Order of Santiago (baptized 6 June 15996 August 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age.
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Diplomatic School of Spain
The Diplomatic School of Spain (Escuela Diplomática in Spanish) is an official institution dependent on the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
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Diurnal air temperature variation
In meteorology, diurnal temperature variation is the variation between a high air temperature and a low temperature that occurs during the same day.
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Don Juan
Don Juan, also known as Don Giovanni (Italian), is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.
Dos de Mayo Uprising
The Dos de Mayo or Second of May Uprising took place in Madrid, Spain, on 2–3 May 1808.
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Duke of Berwick
Duke of Berwick is a title that was created in the Peerage of England on 19 March 1687 for James FitzJames, the illegitimate son of James II and VII, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland and Arabella Churchill.
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Dutch art
Dutch art describes the history of visual arts in the Netherlands, after the United Provinces separated from Flanders.
EAE Business School
The EAE Business School is a private business school founded in 1958 with campuses in Madrid and Barcelona (Spain).
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Economic growth
Economic growth can be defined as the increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy in a financial year.
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Economics
Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Ecuadorians in Spain
The presence of a sizeable Ecuadorian in Spain community in Spain dates back to the early 2000s.
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Edificio España
The Hotel Riu Plaza España is a historic skyscraper, the 8th tallest building in Madrid, Spain.
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Education
Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.
Education in Spain
Education in Spain is compulsory and free for all children aged between 6 and 16 years and is supported by the national government together with the governments of each of the country's 17 autonomous communities.
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EFE
Agencia EFE, S.A. is a Spanish international news agency, the major Spanish-language multimedia news agency and the world's fourth largest wire service after the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse.
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El Atazar Dam
El Atazar Dam is an arch dam built near Madrid, Spain on the Lozoya River, very close to where the Lozoya joins the Jarama.
El Buscón
El Buscón (full title Historia de la vida del Buscón, llamado Don Pablos, ejemplo de vagamundos y espejo de tacaños (literally: History of the life of the Swindler, called Don Pablos, model for hobos and mirror of misers); translated as Paul the Sharper or The Scavenger and The Swindler) is a picaresque novel by Francisco de Quevedo.
El Greco
Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος,; 1 October 1541 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance.
El Mundo (Spain)
(), before, is the second largest printed daily newspaper in Spain.
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El País
() is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain.
El Pardo
El Pardo is a ward (barrio) of Madrid belonging to the district of Fuencarral-El Pardo.
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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English art
English art is the body of visual arts made in England.
Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Enrique Jardiel Poncela (15 October 1901 – 18 February 1952) was a Spanish playwright and novelist who wrote mostly humorous works.
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Enrique Tierno Galván
Enrique Tierno Galván (Madrid, 8 February 1918 – Madrid, 19 January 1986) was a Spanish politician, sociologist, lawyer and essayist, best known for being the Mayor of Madrid from 1979 to 1986, at the beginning of the new period of Spanish democracy.
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Ensanche
Ensanche means "widening" in Spanish.
Entertainment
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight.
ESADE Business School
ESADE Business School is a private graduate-level business school located in Barcelona, Spain.
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Espasa-Calpe
Espasa-Calpe was a Spanish publisher which existed during the 20th century.
Esquilache Riots
The Esquilache Riots (Motín de Esquilache) occurred in March 1766 during the rule of Charles III of Spain.
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Estadio Coliseum
Estadio Coliseum is a municipally-owned football stadium in Getafe, Spain.
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Estadio Municipal de Butarque
The Estadio Municipal de Butarque is a multi-use stadium located in Leganés, Spain.
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EuroBasket 2007
The 2007 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 2007, was the 35th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship held by FIBA Europe, which also served as Europe qualifier for the 2008 Summer Olympics, giving a berth to the champion and runner-up teams (or to the third-placed team in case Spain should reach the final).
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EuroLeague
The EuroLeague, officially the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague, is a European men's professional basketball club competition.
EuroLeague Finals
The EuroLeague Finals are the championship finals of the EuroLeague competition.
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Europa Press
Europa Press is a Spanish news agency founded in 1953.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
European University of Madrid
The European University is a private university in Spain with campuses in Madrid, Valencia, and the Canary Islands. The university ranked 1,001–1,200th in the 2024 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, joint 1,635th in the 2024-25 U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Ranking, and 409th in the 2025 QS Europe University Rankings.
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EuroPride
EuroPride is a pan-European international event dedicated to LGBT pride, hosted by a different European city each year.
Eurostat
Eurostat ('European Statistical Office'; DG ESTAT) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in the Kirchberg quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
Eviction
Eviction is the removal of a tenant from rental property by the landlord.
Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century.
Fashion
Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into outfits that depict distinctive ways of dressing (styles and trends) as signifiers of social status, self-expression, and group belonging.
FCC Group
The FCC Group, formerly Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, S. A. (currently one of the group's entities), is a Spanish business group, based in Barcelona.
Ferdinand III of Castile
Ferdinand III (Fernando; 1199/120130 May 1252), called the Saint (el Santo), was King of Castile from 1217 and King of León from 1230 as well as King of Galicia from 1231.
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Ferdinand IV of Castile
Ferdinand IV of Castile (6 December 1285 – 7 September 1312) called the Summoned (el Emplazado), was King of Castile and León from 1295 until his death.
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Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero Angulo (19 April 1932 – 15 September 2023) was a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor.
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FIBA Basketball World Cup
The FIBA Basketball World Cup is an international basketball competition between the senior men's national teams of the members of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the sport's global governing body.
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FIFA Club of the Century
FIFA Club of the Century was an award presented by FIFA to decide the best football club of the 20th century.
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Finance
Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets.
Fine art
In European academic traditions, fine art is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork.
Food processing
Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
Forbes list of the most valuable sports teams
The world's most valuable sports teams, as ranked annually by the American magazine Forbes, include teams from association football, American football, baseball, and basketball.
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Ford (crossing)
A ford is a shallow place with good footing where a river or stream may be crossed by wading, or inside a vehicle getting its wheels wet.
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Forest of Remembrance
The Forest of Remembrance (Bosque del Recuerdo), formerly known as the Forest of the Departed (Bosque de los Ausentes), is a memorial garden located in the park of Parque del Buen Retiro in Madrid, Spain that commemorates the 191 civilian victims of the 2004 Madrid train bombings on 11 March 2004 and the special forces agent who died when the seven suicide bombers subsequently killed themselves on March 11, 2004, while under siege by security forces in their apartment block.
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Formula One
Formula One, commonly known as Formula 1 or F1, is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Francisco de Cubas
Francisco de Cubas y González-Montes (13 April 1826 – 2 January 1899) was a Spanish architect and politician.
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Francisco de Quevedo
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Knight of the Order of Santiago (14 September 1580 – 8 September 1645) was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era.
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Francisco de Vitoria University
Francisco de Vitoria University (Universidad Francisco de Vitoria) is a private university located in Pozuelo de Alarcón, in the Community of Madrid, Spain.
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Francisco de Zurbarán
Francisco de Zurbarán (baptized 7 November 1598 – 27 August 1664) was a Spanish painter.
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Francisco Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker.
Francisco José de Caldas District University
The Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas) is a public, coeducational, research university based in Bogotá, Colombia.
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Francoist Spain
Francoist Spain (España franquista), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (dictadura franquista), was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo.
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Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.
French toast
French toast is a dish of sliced bread soaked in beaten eggs and often milk or cream, then pan-fried.
Fuencarral
Fuencarral is a neighborhood located in the northern part of Madrid, Spain.
Fuencarral-El Pardo
Fuencarral-El Pardo is one of the 21 districts that form the city of Madrid, Spain.
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Fuenlabrada
Fuenlabrada is a city and municipality of Spain located in the Community of Madrid. Madrid and Fuenlabrada are municipalities in the Community of Madrid.
Fuenteovejuna
Fuenteovejuna is a play by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega.
Fundéu
The FundéuRAE (Fundéu, an acronym in lit) is a non-profit organization founded in 2005 in Madrid, Spain.
Garlic soup
Garlic soup is a type of soup using garlic as a main ingredient.
Gate of Europe
The Gate of Europe towers (Puerta de Europa, - Door of Europe-), also known as KIO Towers (Torres KIO), are twin office buildings near the Plaza de Castilla in Madrid, Spain.
Generalist channel
A generalist channel is a television or radio channel whose target audience is not confined to a particular set of people, but instead aims to offer a wide range of programs and program genres to a diverse general public.
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Gentrification
Gentrification is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents (the "gentry") and investment.
Getafe
Getafe is a municipality and a city in Spain belonging to the Community of Madrid. Madrid and Getafe are municipalities in the Community of Madrid.
Getafe CF
Getafe Club de Fútbol S.A.D. is a Spanish professional football club based in Getafe, a city in the Community of Madrid.
Global city
A global city, also known as a power city, world city, alpha city, or world center, is a city that serves as a primary node in the global economic network. The concept originates from geography and urban studies, based on the thesis that globalization has created a hierarchy of strategic geographic locations with varying degrees of influence over finance, trade, and culture worldwide.
Government of Spain
The government of Spain (Gobierno de España) is the central government which leads the executive branch and the General State Administration of the Kingdom of Spain.
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Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz.
Gran Vía, Madrid
The Gran Vía (Great Way) is a street in central Madrid, Spain.
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Grand Tour (cycling)
In road bicycle racing, a Grand Tour is one of the three major European professional cycling stage races: Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, and Vuelta a España.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Guadalajara
Guadalajara is a city in western Mexico and the capital of the state of Jalisco.
Guadarrama (river)
The Guadarrama is a river in Spain.
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Guanches
The Guanche were the indigenous inhabitants of the Spanish Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean some to the west of modern Morocco and the North African coast.
Guatemala City
Guatemala City (Ciudad de Guatemala), known nationally also as Guate, is the capital and largest city of Guatemala.
Guernica (Picasso)
Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
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Havana
Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba.
Hectare
The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), that is, 10,000 square meters (10,000 m2), and is primarily used in the measurement of land.
Herbal medicine
Herbal medicine (also called herbalism, phytomedicine or phytotherapy) is the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine.
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Herrerian style
The Herrerian style (estilo herreriano or arquitectura herreriana) of architecture was developed in Spain during the last third of the 16th century under the reign of Philip II (1556–1598), and continued in force in the 17th century, but transformed by the Baroque style of the time.
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Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (born Jheronimus van Aken; – 9 August 1516) was a Dutch painter from Brabant.
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High-speed rail
High-speed rail (HSR) is a type of rail transport network utilizing trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail, using an integrated system of specialized rolling stock and dedicated tracks.
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Hispania
Hispania (Hispanía; Hispānia) was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula.
Hispanic America
The region known as Hispanic America (Hispanoamérica or América Hispana) and historically as Spanish America (América Española) is all the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas.
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Hispanophone
Hispanophone refers to anything related to the Spanish language.
Holiday
A holiday is a day or other period of time set aside for festivals or recreation.
Hortaleza
Hortaleza is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain.
Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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Human migration
Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region).
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Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
The "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis" was the popular name for a French army mobilized in 1823 by the Bourbon King of France, Louis XVIII, to help the Spanish Bourbon royalists restore King Ferdinand VII of Spain to the absolute power of which he had been deprived during the Liberal Triennium.
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Iberia (airline)
Iberia, legally incorporated as Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España, S.A. Operadora, Sociedad Unipersonal, is the flag carrier of Spain.
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Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.
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IBEX 35
The IBEX 35 (IBerian IndEX) is the benchmark stock market index of the Bolsa de Madrid, Spain's principal stock exchange.
IE Business School
IE Business School is a graduate and undergraduate school of business, located in Madrid, Spain.
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IESE Business School
IESE Business School is the graduate business school of the University of Navarra.
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Immigration
Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as permanent residents.
Implosive consonant
Implosive consonants are a group of stop consonants (and possibly also some affricates) with a mixed glottalic ingressive and pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism.
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Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
Incorruptibility
Incorruptibility is a Catholic and Orthodox belief that divine intervention allows some human bodies (specifically saints and beati) to completely or partially avoid the normal process of decomposition after death as a sign of their holiness.
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Independent music
Independent music (also commonly known as indie music, or simply indie) is a broad style of music characterized by creative freedoms, low-budgets, and a do-it-yourself approach to music creation, which originated from the liberties afforded by independent record labels.
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Information technology
Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, and data and information processing, and storage.
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INSEAD
INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires", is a non-profit graduate business school that maintains campuses in France (Europe Campus), Singapore (Asia Campus), and the United Arab Emirates (Middle East Campus).
Instituto Cervantes
Instituto Cervantes (the Cervantes Institute) is a worldwide nonprofit organization created by the Spanish government in 1991.
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Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)
The Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN), or National Geographic Institute is a Spanish government agency, dependent on the Spanish Ministry of Public Works.
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Insurance
Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury.
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) is a tuna regional fishery management organisation, responsible for the management and conservation of tuna and tuna-like species in the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas.
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International Institute for Management Development
International Institute for Management Development (IMD) is an independent academic institute with campuses in Lausanne, Switzerland and Singapore.
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International Labour Organization
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards.
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International Organization of Securities Commissions
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) is an association of organizations that regulate the world's securities and futures markets.
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International student
International students or exchange students, also known as foreign students, are students who undertake all or part of their secondary or tertiary education in a country other than their own.
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Irun
Irun (Irún, Irun) is a town of the Bidasoaldea region in the province of Gipuzkoa in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain.
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Isabella II
Isabella II (Isabel II, María Isabel Luisa de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias; 10 October 1830 – 9 April 1904) was Queen of Spain from 1833 until her deposition in 1868.
Isidore the Laborer
Isidore the Laborer, also known as Isidore the Farmer (San Isidro Labrador) (– 15 May 1130), was a Spanish farmworker known for his piety toward the poor and animals.
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Jarama
Jarama is a river in central Spain.
Joachim Patinir
Joachim Patinir, also called Patenier (– 5 October 1524), was a Flemish Renaissance painter of history and landscape subjects.
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Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist.
José Echegaray
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (19 April 183214 September 1916) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century.
José María Álvarez del Manzano
José María Álvarez del Manzano y López del Hierro (born 17 October 1937) is a Spanish politician for the People's Party.
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Juan Barranco Gallardo
Juan Antonio Barranco Gallardo (born 13 August 1947 in Santiago de Calatrava, Jaén Province) is a retired Spanish politician in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
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Juan Bautista Lázaro de Diego
Juan Bautista Lázaro de Diego (León, 1849 - Ciempozuelos, 1919) was a Spanish architect, born to jurist José Benito Lázaro and astorgana María de Diego Pinillos.
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Juan Carlos I Park
Juan Carlos I Park (Parque Juan Carlos I) is a major municipal park in Madrid, Spain.
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Juan de la Cuesta
Juan de la Cuesta (?-1627) was a Spanish printer known for printing (not publishing) the first editions of Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605) and the Novelas ejemplares (1613), by Miguel de Cervantes, as well as the works of other leading figures of Spain's Golden Age, such as Lope de Vega.
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Juan Gómez de Mora
Juan Gómez de Mora (1586–1648) was a Spanish architect, active in the 17th century.
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Juan Gris
José Victoriano González-Pérez (23 March 1887 – 11 May 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period.
Juan López de Padilla
Juan López de Padilla (1490 – 24 April 1521) was an insurrectionary leader in the Castilian War of the Communities, where the people of Castile made a stand against policies of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and his Flemish ministers.
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Juan Luna
Juan Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta (October 25, 1857 – December 7, 1899) was a Filipino painter, sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century.
Julio González (sculptor)
Julio González i Pellicer (21 September 1876 – 27 March 1942), born in Barcelona, was a Spanish sculptor and painter who developed the expressive use of iron as a medium for modern sculpture.
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Jusepe de Ribera
Jusepe de Ribera (1591 – 1652) was a Spanish painter and printmaker.
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Kathmandu
Kathmandu, officially Kathmandu Metropolitan City, is the capital and most populous city of Nepal with 845,767 inhabitants living in 105,649 households as of the 2021 Nepal census and approximately 4 million people in its urban agglomeration.
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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King Juan Carlos University
Rey Juan Carlos University (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, URJC) is a Spanish public research university located in the southern area of the Community of Madrid (Spain), with five campuses at Móstoles, Alcorcón, Vicálvaro, Aranjuez and Fuenlabrada.
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Kingdom of Castile
The Kingdom of Castile (Reino de Castilla: Regnum Castellae) was a polity in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages.
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Kingdom of León
The Kingdom of León was an independent kingdom situated in the northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula.
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La 1 (Spanish TV channel)
(The One) is a Spanish free-to-air television channel owned and operated by italic (TVE), the television division of state-owned public broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE).
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La 2 (Spanish TV channel)
La 2 (The Two) is a Spanish free-to-air television channel owned and operated by Televisión Española (TVE), the television division of state-owned public broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE).
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La Liga
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known as the Primera División or La Liga and officially as LaLiga EA Sports since 2023 for sponsorship reasons, is the top men's professional football division of the Spanish football league system.
La maja desnuda
The Naked Maja or The Nude Maja (La maja desnuda) is an oil-on-canvas painting made around 1797–1800 by the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya, and is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
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La maja vestida
(English translation: The Clothed Maja) is an oil painting on canvas created between 1800 and 1807 by the Spanish Romantic painter and printmaker Francisco Goya.
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La Movida Madrileña
La Movida Madrileña (The Madrilenian Scene), also known as La Movida, was a countercultural movement that took place mainly in Madrid during the Spanish transition to democracy after the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.
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La Paz
La Paz, officially Nuestra Señora de La Paz, is the seat of government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
La Razón (Madrid)
La Razón is a daily newspaper based in Madrid, Spain.
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La Vanguardia
La Vanguardia is a Spanish daily newspaper, founded in 1881.
Lady of Baza
The Lady of Baza (la Dama de Baza) is a famous example of Iberian sculpture by the Bastetani.
Lady of Cerro de los Santos
Lady of Cerro de los Santos (Dama del Cerro de los Santos), also known as Gran Dama Oferente, is an Iberian sculpture from the 2nd century BCE, that is now in National Archaeological Museum in Madrid.
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Lady of Elche
The Lady of Elche (Dama de Elche, Valencian: Dama d'Elx) is a limestone bust that was discovered in 1897, at La Alcudia, an archaeological site on a private estate two kilometers south of Elche, Spain.
Lady of Ibiza
The Lady of Ibiza is a ceramic figure, 47 cm tall, that dates from the third century BC.
Las Meninas
paren) is a 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Baroque. It has become one of the most widely analyzed works in Western painting for the way its complex and enigmatic composition raises questions about reality and illusion, and for the uncertain relationship it creates between the viewer and the figures depicted.
Las Palmas
Las Palmas, officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a Spanish city and capital of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean.
Las Rozas de Madrid
Las Rozas de Madrid (or simply, Las Rozas) is a municipality in the autonomous community of Madrid, Spain, with an area of 59 km² (22¾ sq. mi.). The municipality is served by three Renfe railway stations– Las Rozas, Pinar de Las Rozas and Las Matas. Madrid and Las Rozas de Madrid are municipalities in the Community of Madrid.
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Las Ventas
The Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas, known simply as Las Ventas, is the largest bullfighting ring in Spain, located in the Guindalera quarter of the Salamanca district of Madrid.
LaSexta
La Sexta ("The Sixth"; stylised as laSexta) is a privately owned Spanish free-to-air television channel that was founded on 18 March 2001 as Beca TV and began broadcasting on 1 April 2001.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Latin America
Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.
Latina
Latina or Latinas most often refers to.
Latina (Madrid)
Latina is a district of Madrid located in the southwestern corner of the municipality.
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Lavapiés
Lavapiés is a historic neighbourhood in the city of Madrid, Spain.
Lázaro Galdiano Museum
The Lázaro Galdiano Museum (Museo Lázaro Galdiano) is an art museum in Madrid, Spain.
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Leandro Fernández de Moratín
Leandro Fernández de Moratín (10 March 1760 – 21 June 1828) was a Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet.
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Leísmo
Leísmo ("using le") is a dialectal variation in the Spanish language that occurs largely in Spain.
Leganés
Leganés is a city in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Madrid and Leganés are municipalities in the Community of Madrid.
Life Is a Dream
Life Is a Dream (La vida es sueño) is a Spanish-language play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
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Liga ACB
The Liga ACB, known as Liga Endesa for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system.
Lima
Lima, founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (Spanish for "City of Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of the country, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
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Line 1 (Madrid Metro)
Line 1 of the Madrid Metro is an underground metro line running from Pinar de Chamartín in the north to Valdecarros in the southeast, via Sol.
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Line 10 (Madrid Metro)
Line 10 of the Madrid Metro is a rapid transit line in Madrid that is actually the product of two formerly separate lines.
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Line 11 (Madrid Metro)
Line 11 of the Madrid Metro is a rapid transit line in Madrid, Spain.
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Line 12 (Madrid Metro)
Line 12, also known as MetroSur (Spanish for "MetroSouth"), is a line of the Madrid Metro inaugurated on 11 April 2003.
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Line 2 (Madrid Metro)
Line 2 of the Madrid Metro is a rapid transit line in Madrid.
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Line 3 (Madrid Metro)
Line 3 is a rapid transit line of the Madrid Metro in Madrid.
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Line 4 (Madrid Metro)
Line 4 is a rapid transit line of the Madrid Metro connecting the west and center of Madrid with the said city's northeastern end, running between Argüelles and Pinar de Chamartín.
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Line 5 (Madrid Metro)
Line 5 is a rapid transit line in the Madrid Metro system since 5 June 1968.
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Line 6 (Madrid Metro)
Line 6 (Línea 6 Circular) of the Madrid Metro opened originally between Cuatro Caminos and Pacifico in 1979.
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Line 7 (Madrid Metro)
Line 7 of the Madrid Metro is a rapid transit line that originally opened on 17 July 1974.
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Line 8 (Madrid Metro)
Line 8 of the Madrid Metro opened between Mar de Cristal and Campo de las Naciones (now Feria de Madrid) on 24 June 1998.
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Line 9 (Madrid Metro)
Line 9 of the Madrid Metro is a rapid transit line in Madrid that originally opened on 31 January 1980 between Sainz de Baranda and Pavones.
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Linear city (Soria design)
The linear city is an urban plan for an elongated urban formation that was proposed by Arturo Soria y Mata in 1882.
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Liria Palace
The Liria Palace (Spanish: Palacio de Liria) is a neoclassical palace in Madrid, Spain.
Lisbon
Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis. Madrid and Lisbon are capitals in Europe.
List of cities by GDP
This is a list of cities in the world by nominal gross domestic product (GDP).
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List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits
This is a list of the largest cities in the European Union according to the population within their city boundary.
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List of diplomatic missions in Spain
This article lists embassies and consulates posted in Spain.
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List of European cities by population within city limits
The largest cities in Europe have official populations of over one million inhabitants within their city boundaries.
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List of European Cup and UEFA Champions League finals
The UEFA Champions League is a seasonal football competition established in 1955.
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List of films set in Madrid
This is a list of films whose setting is Madrid, Spain.
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List of metropolitan areas in Europe
This list ranks metropolitan areas in Europe by their population according to three different sources; it includes metropolitan areas that have a population of over 1 million.
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List of metropolitan areas in Spain
This is a list of the largest metropolitan areas in Spain by population.
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List of sovereign states
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
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List of tallest buildings in Madrid
Since 2009, the tallest building in Madrid (and Spain) has been Torre de Cristal, that dominates the Madrid skyline with 250 m in height.
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Loísmo
Loísmo, with its feminine counterpart laísmo, is a feature of certain dialects of Spanish consisting of the use of the pronouns,,, and (which are normally used for direct objects) in place of the pronouns le and les (which are used for indirect objects).
Local government
Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state.
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Logistics
Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption according to the needs of customers.
Logistics center
A logistics center, or depot, is a facility dedicated to logistical operations.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in. Madrid and London are capitals in Europe.
London Underground
The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England.
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Longoria Palace
The Palace of Longoria (Spanish: Palacio de Longoria) is an Art Nouveau palace that the politician and financier Francisco Javier González Longoria ordered to be built in the district of Chueca, at the corner of Fernando VI and Pelayo streets, in the city of Madrid, Spain.
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Lope de Vega
Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (25 November 156227 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659) of Baroque literature.
Los 40
Los 40 (stylized as LOS40, formerly Los 40 Principales, Los Cuarenta) is a Spanish Top 40-themed music radio station that broadcasts current and recent music, primarily focusing on genres such as pop, dance, electropop, Electro Latin, and Reggaeton.
Loughborough University
Loughborough University (abbreviated as Lough or Lboro for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England.
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Lozoya (river)
The Lozoya River is a river flowing near the centre of Spain.
Luis de Góngora
Luis de Góngora y Argote (born Luis de Argote y Góngora;; 11 July 1561 – 24 May 1627) was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet and a Catholic prebendary for the Church of Córdoba.
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Luis Gutiérrez Soto
Luis Gutiérrez Soto (1900–1977) was a Spanish architect.
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Lumbini
Lumbinī (IPA, "the lovely") is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Rupandehi District of Lumbini Province in Nepal.
M80 Radio
M80 Radio is a radio station in Portugal (and formerly also Spain) playing music from the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
Madrid Atocha railway station
Madrid Atocha (Estación de Madrid Atocha), also named Madrid Puerta de Atocha–Almudena Grandes, is the first major railway station in Madrid.
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Madrid Conference of 1991
The Madrid Conference of 1991 was a peace conference, held from 30 October to 1 November 1991 in Madrid, hosted by Spain and co-sponsored by the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Madrid Dome
Madrid Dome (купол Мадрид, ‘Kupol Madrid’ \'ku-pol ma-'drid\) is the ice dome rising to 1647 m Polar Geospatial Center.
Madrid Fashion Week
Backstage at Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week. Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid 2017. Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid, was known as Pasarela Cibeles until 2008 or Cibeles Madrid Fashion week up until 2012, is the principal platform to promote fashion in Spain.
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Madrid Metro
The Madrid Metro (Spanish: Metro de Madrid) is a rapid transit system serving the city of Madrid, capital of Spain.
Madrid metropolitan area
The Madrid metropolitan area is a monocentric metropolitan area in the centre of the Iberian peninsula, around the municipality of Madrid, Spain.
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Madrid Open (tennis)
The Madrid Open (Masters de Madrid; formerly known as the Madrid Masters, and currently known as the Mutua Madrid Open for sponsorship reasons) is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Madrid, Spain.
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Madrid Royal Conservatory
The Madrid Royal Conservatory (Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid) is a music college in Madrid, Spain.
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Madrid–Barajas Airport
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport is the main international airport serving Madrid, the capital city of Spain.
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Madrid–Cuatro Vientos Airport
Madrid–Cuatro Vientos Airport, also known as Cuatro Vientos Airport, is the oldest airport in Spain, established in and one of the three civil airports of Madrid along with Madrid–Barajas and Madrid–Torrejón Airport.
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Malabo
Malabo (formerly Santa Isabel) is the capital of Equatorial Guinea and the province of Bioko Norte.
Managua
Managua is the capital and largest city of Nicaragua, and one of the largest cities in Central America.
Manila
Manila (Maynila), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynila), is the capital and second-most-populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City.
Mantua
Mantua (Mantova; Lombard and Mantua) is a comune (municipality) in the Italian region of Lombardy, and capital of the province of the same name.
Manzanares (river)
The Manzanares is a river in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, which flows from the Sierra de Guadarrama, passes through Madrid, and eventually empties into the Jarama river, which in turn is a right-bank tributary to the Tagus.
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Marca (newspaper)
(), stylised as, is Spain's national daily tabloid sport newspaper owned by Unidad Editorial.
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Mariano José de Larra
Mariano José de Larra y Sánchez de Castro (24 March 1809 – 13 February 1837) was a Spanish romantic writer and journalist best known for his numerous essays and his infamous suicide.
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Market of San Miguel
The Market of San Miguel (Spanish: Mercado de San Miguel) is a covered market located in Madrid, Spain.
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Mass media
Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.
Master of Business Administration
A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration.
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Matadero Madrid
Matadero Madrid is the site of a former slaughterhouse, the El Matadero y Mercado Municipal de Ganados (English: Municipal Slaughterhouse and Cattle Market) in the Arganzuela district of Madrid.
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Mayor of Madrid
The Mayor of Madrid presides over the Madrid City Council, the government body of the capital city of Spain.
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Móstoles
Móstoles is a municipality of Spain located in the Community of Madrid. Madrid and Móstoles are municipalities in the Community of Madrid.
Mediapro
Mediaproducción, S.L.U., better known as Mediapro, is a multimedia communications group in Spain founded in April 1994 in Barcelona.
Mediaset España
Grupo Audiovisual Mediaset España Comunicación, S.A.U. (formerly Gestevisión Telecinco, S.A. and Mediaset España Comunicación, S.A.) is a Spanish media company, controlled by the Italian-based company MFE - MediaForEurope N.V., which is majority-owned by Berlusconi family's Fininvest Group.
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Medical school
A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, professional school, or forms a part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians.
Mediterranean climate
A Mediterranean climate, also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen as Cs, is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude).
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Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub
Mediterranean forests, woodlands and scrub is a biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
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Meseta Central
The Meseta Central (sometimes referred to in English as Inner Plateau) is one of the basic geographical units of the Iberian Peninsula.
Metropolitano Stadium
Metropolitano Stadium (Spanish), also referred to as Cívitas Metropolitano for sponsorship reasons, is a stadium in Madrid, Spain.
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Mexico City
Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.
Miami
Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Spain)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (MAEUEC) is a department of the Government of Spain in charge of planning, managing, carrying out and evaluating the country's foreign and international cooperation for development policies, paying special attention to the ones in relation to the European Union and Ibero-America, as well as coordinating and supervising all actions done in this areas by the other Ministries and Public Administrations.
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Modern art
Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era.
Monarchy of Spain
The monarchy of Spain or Spanish monarchy (Monarquía Española) is the constitutional form of government of Spain.
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Moncloa-Aravaca
Moncloa-Aravaca is a district of the municipality of Madrid, Spain.
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Monte de El Pardo
The Monte de El Pardo is a large forested area in Madrid, Spain, extending roughly across one quarter of the total municipal area.
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Montevideo
Montevideo is the capital and largest city of Uruguay.
Moratalaz
Moratalaz is a district of Madrid, Spain.
Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Moscow
Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia. Madrid and Moscow are capitals in Europe.
Moscow Metro
The Moscow Metro is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union., the Moscow Metro, excluding the Moscow Central Circle, the Moscow Central Diameters and the Moscow Monorail, had 294 stations and of route length, excluding light rail Monorail, making it the 10th-longest in the world and the longest outside East Asia.
Motor vehicle
A motor vehicle, also known as a motorized vehicle, automotive vehicle, '''automobile,''' or road vehicle, is a self-propelled land vehicle, commonly wheeled, that does not operate on rails (such as trains or trams) and is used for the transportation of people or cargo.
Muhammad I of Córdoba
Muhammad I of Cordoba (823–886) was a Muslim ruler of al-Andalus.
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Multinational corporation
A multinational corporation (MNC; also called a multinational enterprise (MNE), transnational enterprise (TNE), transnational corporation (TNC), international corporation, or stateless corporation,with subtle but contrasting senses) is a corporate organization that owns and controls the production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country.
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Municipalities of Spain
The municipality (municipio,, municipi, concello, udalerria, conceyu)In other languages of Spain.
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Museo de América
The italic is an art, archaeology, and ethnography museum in Madrid, Spain, devoted to the whole of the Americas from the Paleolithic period to the present day.
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Museo del Prado
The Museo del Prado, officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid.
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ("Queen Sofía National Museum Art Centre"; MNCARS) is Spain's national museum of 20th-century art.
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Museo Nacional de Antropología (Madrid)
The National Museum of Anthropology (Museo Nacional de Antropología) is an anthropology museum in Madrid, Spain.
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Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas
The National Museum of Decorative Arts (Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas; originally, National Museum of Industrial Arts) is a decorative arts museum in Madrid, Spain, devoted to the industrial or "minor arts", including furniture, ceramics, glass, and textiles.
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Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
The National Museum of Natural Sciences (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales) is a natural history museum in Madrid, Spain.
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Museum of Romanticism (Madrid)
The Museum of Romanticism (Museo del Romanticismo) is an art museum in Madrid, Spain, devoted to Romanticism.
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Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula
The Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, also known as the Arab conquest of Spain, by the Umayyad Caliphate occurred between approximately 711 and the 720s.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
Napier's bones
Napier's bones is a manually-operated calculating device created by John Napier of Merchiston, Scotland for the calculation of products and quotients of numbers.
Narciso Pascual Colomer
Narciso Pascual Colomer, also known as Narciso Pascual y Colomer, (1808 in Madrid – 15 June 1870 in Lisboa) was a Spanish architect.
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National Archaeological Museum (Madrid)
The National Archaeological Museum (Museo Arqueológico Nacional; MAN) is a archaeology museum in Madrid, Spain.
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National Auditorium of Music
The Auditorio Nacional de Música (National Auditorium of Music) is a complex of concert venues located in Madrid, Spain and the main concert hall in the Madrid metropolitan area.
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National Police Corps (Spain)
The National Police Corps (Cuerpo Nacional de Policía, CNP;; also known simply as the National Police, Policía Nacional) is the national civilian police force of Spain.
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National Statistics Institute (Spain)
The (INE) is the official agency in Spain that collects statistics about demography, economy, and Spanish society.
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National University of Distance Education
The National Distance Education University (UNED) is a distance learning and research university founded in 1972 and is the only university run by the government of Spain.
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Natural history
Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
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Natural history museum
A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more.
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Nature reserve
A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, funga, or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for purposes of conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.
Naval Museum of Madrid
The Naval Museum (Museo Naval) is a naval museum in Madrid, Spain, devoted to the history of the Spanish Navy since the Catholic Monarchs, in the 15th century, up to the present.
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Neo-Mudéjar
Neo-Mudéjar is a type of Moorish Revival architecture practised in the Iberian Peninsula and to a far lesser extent in Ibero-America.
Netflix
Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
Nicolás Cabrera (physicist)
Nicolás Cabrera (1913–1989), was a Spanish physicist who did important work on the theories of crystal growth (specifically the Burton–Cabrera–Frank theory) and the oxidisation of metals.
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Nightclub
A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment.
Nightlife
Nightlife is a collective term for entertainment that is available and generally more popular from the late evening into the early hours of the morning.
Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
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Nouakchott
Nouakchott (translit; Nuwaaksoot; Nuwaasoot; Nuwasooto; Nwakcoṭ, originally derived from Nawākšūṭ, 'place of the winds') page 273.
Offal
Offal, also called variety meats, pluck or organ meats, is the internal organs of a butchered animal.
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Office Open XML
Office Open XML (also informally known as OOXML) is a zipped, XML-based file format developed by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. Ecma International standardized the initial version as ECMA-376. ISO and IEC standardized later versions as ISO/IEC 29500.
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Old Spanish
Old Spanish, also known as Old Castilian (castellano antiguo; roman, romançe, romaz), or Medieval Spanish (español medieval), was originally a dialect of Vulgar Latin spoken in the former provinces of the Roman Empire.
Onda Cero
Onda Cero is a Spanish radio station, a part of Atresmedia media group.
OPENCities
OPENCities is a project initiated by British Council Spain, to help cities to become more open and competitive.
Operetta
Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera.
Organization of Ibero-American States
The Organization of Ibero-American States (Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos, Organização de Estados Iberoamericanos, Organització d'Estats Iberoamericans; abbreviated as OEI), formally the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture, is an international organization made up of 23 members states of Iberophone nations in Europe and the Americas, as well as one member in Africa.
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Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid
The Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid (unofficial English name, Madrid Symphony Orchestra), founded in 1903, is a Spanish symphony orchestra.
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Our Lady of Montserrat Church, Madrid
The Church of Our Lady of Montserrat (Nuestra Señora de Montserrat) is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church in central Madrid, Spain.
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Output (economics)
In economics, output is the quantity and quality of goods or services produced in a given time period, within a given economic network, whether consumed or used for further production.
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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
Palace of Moncloa
The Palace of Moncloa or Moncloa Palace (Palacio de la Moncloa) is the official residence and workplace of the President of the Government (Spanish: Presidente del Gobierno), a position usually known in the English language as the Prime Minister of Spain.
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Palace of Zarzuela
The Zarzuela Palace (Palacio de la Zarzuela) is the residence and working offices of the reigning monarch of Spain (King Felipe VI), although the official residence of the Spanish royal family is the Royal Palace of Madrid.
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Palacio de Cristal del Retiro
The Palacio de Cristal ("Glass Palace") is a 19th-century conservatory located in the Buen Retiro Park in Madrid, Spain.
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Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid
Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid (English: Sports Palace of the Regional Community of Madrid), officially WiZink Center since November 2016 for sponsorship reasons, is an indoor sporting arena located in Madrid, Spain.
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Palacio de las Cortes, Madrid
Palacio de las Cortes is a building in Madrid where the Spanish Congress of Deputies meets.
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Palacio de los Concejos
The Palace of the Councils or Palace of the Duke of Uceda (in Spanish, Palacio de los Consejos or Palacio del duque de Uceda) is a building from the 17th century located in central Madrid, Spain.
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Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden.
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Panama City
Panama City, also known as Panama (or Panamá in Spanish), is the capital and largest city of Panama.
Paolo Veronese
Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese (also), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573).
Paramount International Networks
Paramount International Networks (PIN) is the international division of the Paramount Media Networks subsidiary of Paramount Global that oversees the production, broadcasting and promotion of its brands outside of the United States.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France. Madrid and Paris are capitals in Europe.
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Parque de Atracciones de Madrid
Parque de Atracciones de Madrid is a amusement park located in the Casa de Campo in Madrid, Spain.
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Parque del Buen Retiro, Madrid
The Retiro Park (Spanish:, literally "Good Retreat Park"), also known as Buen Retiro Park or simply El Retiro, is one of the largest city parks in Madrid, Spain.
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Parque del Oeste
The Parque del Oeste (in English: Western Park) is a park of the city of Madrid (Spain) situated between the Autovía A-6, the Ciudad Universitaria de Madrid and the district of Moncloa.
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Paseo de la Castellana
Paseo de la Castellana, commonly known as La Castellana, is a major thoroughfare in Madrid, Spain.
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Paseo del Prado
The Paseo del Prado is one of the main boulevards in Madrid, Spain.
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Pasodoble
Pasodoble (Spanish: double step) is a fast-paced Spanish military march used by infantry troops.
Patatas bravas
Patatas bravas (also called patatas a la brava or papas bravas, all meaning "spicy potatoes") is a dish native to Spain.
Patrimonio Nacional
Patrimonio Nacional (National Heritage) is a Spanish autonomous agency, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, that administers the sites owned by the Spanish State and used by the Monarch and the Spanish Royal Family as residences and for State Ceremonies.
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Patron saint
A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person.
Público (Spain)
Público is a Spanish online newspaper.
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (17 January 160025 May 1681) (full name: Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño) was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer.
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Pedro de Ribera
Pedro de Ribera (Madrid 4 August 1681 - Madrid, 1742) was a Spanish architect of the Baroque period.
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Pedro Salinas
Pedro Salinas y Serrano (27 November 1891 – 4 December 1951) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic.
Peninsular Spanish
Peninsular Spanish (español peninsular), also known as the Spanish of Spain (español de España), European Spanish (español europeo), or Iberian Spanish (español ibérico), is the set of varieties of the Spanish language spoken in Peninsular Spain.
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Peninsular War
The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
Pension fund
A pension fund, also known as a superannuation fund in some countries, is any program, fund, or scheme which provides retirement income.
People mover
A people mover or automated people mover (APM) is a type of small scale automated guideway transit system.
People's Party (Spain)
The People's Party (Partido Popular; known mostly by its acronym, PP) is a conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Spain.
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Peter Lang (publisher)
Peter Lang is an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences.
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Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat.
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Philip II of Spain
Philip II (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent (Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598.
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Philip IV of Spain
Philip IV (Felipe Domingo Victor de la Cruz de Austria y Austria, Filipe; 8 April 160517 September 1665), also called the Planet King (Spanish: Rey Planeta), was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and (as Philip III) King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640.
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Philip V of Spain
Philip V (Felipe; 19 December 1683 – 9 July 1746) was King of Spain from 1 November 1700 to 14 January 1724 and again from 6 September 1724 to his death in 1746.
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Pig's ear (food)
Pig's ear, as food for human consumption, is the cooked ear of pig.
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Plaza de Castilla
The Plaza de Castilla ("Castile Place") is a roundabout in the north of Madrid, Spain.
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Plaza de Cibeles
The Plaza de Cibeles is a square with a neo-classical complex of marble sculptures with fountains that has become a symbol for the city of Madrid.
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Plaza de Santa Ana
Plaza de Santa Ana (Saint Anne Square) is a plaza located in central Madrid, Spain, nearby Puerta del Sol and Calle de Huertas, in the Barrio de las Letras.
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Plaza Mayor, Madrid
The Plaza Mayor (English: Town square) is a major public space in the heart of Madrid, the capital of Spain.
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Polar regions of Earth
The polar regions, also called the frigid zones or polar zones, of Earth are Earth's polar ice caps, the regions of the planet that surround its geographical poles (the North and South Poles), lying within the polar circles.
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Policía Municipal de Madrid
The Policía Municipal de Madrid is the municipal police force of the city of Madrid.
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Political representation
Political representation is the activity of making citizens "present" in public policy-making processes when political actors act in the best interest of citizens according to Hanna Pitkin's Concept of Representation (1967).
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Politics
Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.
Pope Innocent VIII
Pope Innocent VIII (Innocentius VIII; Innocenzo VIII; 1432 – 25 July 1492), born Giovanni Battista Cybo (or Cibo), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 August 1484 to his death, in July 1492.
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Population growth
Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group.
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.
Postal code
A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, included in a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail.
Pottage
Pottage or potage is a term for a thick soup or stew made by boiling vegetables, grains, and, if available, meat or fish.
Pozuelo de Alarcón
Pozuelo de Alarcón is a municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Madrid and Pozuelo de Alarcón are municipalities in the Community of Madrid.
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Prague
Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Madrid and Prague are capitals in Europe and Populated places established in the 9th century.
Príncipe Pío (hill)
The montaña del Príncipe Pío is a hill in the western part of Madrid, Spain.
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Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.
Prehistory
Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems.
President of the Community of Madrid
The president of the Community of Madrid is the highest-ranking officer of the Autonomous Community of Madrid and the head of the executive branch.
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Prime Minister of Spain
The prime minister of Spain, officially president of the Government (Presidente del Gobierno), is the head of government of Spain.
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Primera FEB
The Primera FEB, formerly known as LEB or LEB Oro, is the second basketball division of the Spanish basketball league system after the Liga ACB.
PRISA
Promotora de Informaciones, S.A. (PRISA) is a Spanish media conglomerate headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
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Private university
Private universities and private colleges are higher education institutions not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments.
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Prosegur
Prosegur Compañía de Seguridad, S.A ("Prosegur") is a multinational security company, headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
PSA Group
The PSA Group, legally known as Peugeot S.A. (Peugeot Société Anonyme, trading as Groupe PSA; formerly known as PSA Peugeot Citroën from 1991 to 2016) was a French multinational automotive manufacturing company which produced automobiles and motorcycles under the Peugeot, Citroën, DS, Opel and Vauxhall brands.
Public broadcasting
Public broadcasting (or public service broadcasting) involves radio, television, and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.
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Public holiday
A public holiday, national holiday, federal holiday, statutory holiday, or legal holiday is a holiday generally established by law and is usually a non-working day during the year.
Public Interest Oversight Board
The Public Interest Oversight Board (PIOB) is an international body that oversees the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and seeks to improve the quality and public interest focus of the IFAC standards in the areas of audit, education, and ethics.
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Public sector
The public sector, also called the state sector, is the part of the economy composed of both public services and public enterprises.
Public transport
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.
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Public University of Navarre
The Public University of Navarre (Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa; Universidad Pública de Navarra), also known by its acronym UPNA or NUP, is a public university created in 1987 by the government of the Spanish autonomous region of Navarre (Navarra, Basque: Nafarroa).
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Publishing
Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software, and other content available to the public for sale or for free.
Puente de Segovia, Madrid
The Bridge of Segovia (Spanish: Puente de Segovia) is a bridge located in Madrid, Spain, crossing the Manzanares river.
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Puente de Vallecas
Puente de Vallecas ("Bridge of Vallecas") is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain.
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Puerta de Alcalá
The Puerta de Alcalá is a Neo-classical gate in the Plaza de la Independencia in Madrid, Spain.
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Puerta del Sol
The Puerta del Sol (English: "Gate of the Sun") is a public square in Madrid, one of the best known and busiest places in the city.
Pyxis of Zamora
The Pyxis of Zamora is a carved ivory casket (pyx) that dates from the Caliphate of Córdoba.
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Qanat
A qanat or kārīz is a system for transporting water from an aquifer or water well to the surface, through an underground aqueduct; the system originated approximately 3,000 years ago in Iran.
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Quercus rotundifolia
Quercus rotundifolia, the holm oak or ballota oak, is an evergreen oak native to the western Mediterranean region, with the majority of the population in the Iberian Peninsula and minor populations in Northwest Africa.
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Quito
Quito (Kitu), officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area.
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R-3 motorway (Spain)
The R-3 motorway (Autopista Radial R-3) is a Spanish motorway connecting Madrid (M-30), Arganda del Rey (A-3) and Tarancón (A-3).
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R-4 motorway (Spain)
The R-4 is a Spanish radial toll motorway originating from Madrid and passing through Valdemoro, connecting to the N-400, A-40 and AP-36.
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Rabat
Rabat (also,; ar-Ribāṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh-largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million.
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Radio Clásica
Radio Clásica is a Spanish free-to-air radio station owned and operated by Radio Nacional de España (RNE), the radio division of state-owned public broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE).
Radio Exterior
Radio Exterior de España (REE), or simply Radio Exterior, is a Spanish free-to-air radio station owned and operated by Radio Nacional de España (RNE), the radio division of state-owned public broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE).
Radio masts and towers
Radio masts and towers are typically tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television.
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Radio Nacional (Spanish radio station)
Radio Nacional is a Spanish free-to-air radio station owned and operated by Radio Nacional de España (RNE), the radio division of state-owned public broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE).
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Rail transport
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.
Railway Museum (Madrid)
The Museo del Ferrocarril (Railway Museum) in Madrid, Spain, is one of the largest historic railroad collections in Europe.
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Ramal (Madrid Metro)
The Ramal ("Spur") or Línea R (Line R) of the Madrid Metro is a shuttle train connecting the stations of Ópera and Príncipe Pío.
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Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Ramón Gómez de la Serna y Puig (July 3, 1888 – January 13, 1963), born in Madrid, was a Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator.
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Ranked lists of Spanish autonomous communities
This article includes several ranked indicators for Spain's 17 autonomous communities, as well as for the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
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Ranked lists of Spanish municipalities
This article includes several ranked indicators for Spain's municipalities.
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Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
Rapid transit
Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), commonly referred to as metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas.
Rationing
Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, services, or an artificial restriction of demand.
Rayo Vallecano
Rayo Vallecano de Madrid, S.A.D., often abbreviated to Rayo (Spanish for "thunderbolt"), is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid, in the neighbourhood of Vallecas.
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (RABASF), located on the Calle de Alcalá in the centre of Madrid, currently functions as a museum and gallery.
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Real Casa de la Aduana
The Real Casa de la Aduana (Spanish: Real Casa de la Aduana means royal customs house) is the headquarters of Spain's Ministry of Economy and Ministry of the Treasury.
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Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid
Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid (Spanish for "Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid") is an botanical garden in Madrid (Spain).
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Real Madrid Baloncesto
Real Madrid Baloncesto (English: Real Madrid Basketball) is a Spanish professional basketball club that was founded in 1931, as a division of the Real Madrid CF multi sports club.
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Real Madrid CF
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.
Regidor
A regidor (plural: regidores) is a member of a council of municipalities in Spain and Latin America.
Reina Sofía School of Music
The Reina Sofía School of Music (Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Spanish) is a private music school founded in Madrid, Spain, in 1991 by Paloma O'Shea.
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Research and development
Research and development (R&D or R+D; also known in Europe as research and technological development or RTD) is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products and carrier science computer marketplace e-commerce, copy center and service maintenance troubleshooting software, hardware improving existing ones.
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Retiro (Madrid)
Retiro is a district located at the southeast of the city centre of Madrid, Spain.
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Revolt of the Comuneros
The Revolt of the Comuneros (Guerra de las Comunidades de Castilla, "War of the Communities of Castile") was an uprising by citizens of Castile against the rule of Charles I and his administration between 1520 and 1521.
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Revolution of 1934
The Revolution of 1934, also known as the Revolution of October 1934 or the Revolutionary General Strike of 1934, was a revolutionary strike movement that took place between 5 and 19 October 1934, during the black biennium of the Second Spanish Republic.
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Ricardo Velázquez Bosco
Ricardo Velázquez Bosco (1843–1923) was a Spanish architect, archaeologist and scholar.
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Ring road
A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop or orbital) is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city or country.
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro.
Rogier van der Weyden
Rogier van der Weyden or Roger de la Pasture (1399 or 140018 June 1464) was an early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych portraits.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Roman villa
A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house in the territory of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions.
Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy. Madrid and Rome are capitals in Europe.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Royal Academy of History
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Royal Alcázar of Madrid
The Royal Alcázar of Madrid (Spanish: Real Alcázar de Madrid) was a fortress located at the site of today's Royal Palace of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
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Royal Basilica of Saint Francis the Great
The Royal Basilica of Saint Francis the Great (Real Basílica de San Francisco el Grande) is a Roman Catholic church in central Madrid, Spain, located in the neighborhood of Palacio.
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Royal Collection
The Royal Collection of the British royal family is the largest private art collection in the world.
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Royal Monastery of La Encarnación
The Real Monasterio de la Encarnación (Royal Monastery of the Incarnation) is a convent of the order of Recollet Augustines located in Madrid, Spain.
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Royal Observatory of Madrid
The Royal Observatory of Madrid is a historic observatory situated on a small hill next to the Buen Retiro Park in Madrid, Spain.
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Royal Palace of Madrid
The Royal Palace of Madrid (Palacio Real de Madrid) is the official residence of the Spanish royal family at the city of Madrid, although now used only for state ceremonies.
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Royal Spanish Academy
The Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española, generally abbreviated as RAE) is Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure the stability of the Spanish language.
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Royal Tapestry Factory
The Royal Tapestry Factory (Spanish: Real Fábrica de Tapices de Santa Bárbara) is a factory making tapestries in Madrid, Spain, which was founded in 1720 and is still in operation.
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RTVE
The Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española, Sociedad Anónima, S. M. E., known as Radiotelevisión Española (acronym RTVE, branded in logo in all lowercase), is the state-owned public corporation that assumed in 2007 the indirect management of the Spanish public radio and television service known as Ente Público Radiotelevisión Española.
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RTVE Symphony Orchestra
The RTVE Symphony Orchestra (Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española), also known as the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra is a Spanish radio orchestra servicing RTVE, the Spanish national broadcasting network.
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Sabatini Gardens
The Sabatini Gardens (in Spanish: Jardines de Sabatini) are part of the Royal Palace in Madrid, Spain, and were opened to the public by King Juan Carlos I in 1978.
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Saint Louis University Madrid Campus
Saint Louis University—Madrid (SLU-Madrid) is a campus in Madrid, Spain, of Saint Louis University, a private Jesuit research university in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Salamanca (Madrid)
Salamanca is one of the 21 districts that form the city of Madrid, Spain.
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Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.
Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex.
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San Blas-Canillejas
San Blas-Canillejas is a district to the east of Madrid's city centre.
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San José, Costa Rica
San José (meaning "Saint Joseph") is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of the province of the same name.
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San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan (Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States.
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San Pedro el Real, Madrid
The Church of San Pedro el Real (St Peter the Royal), also known as San Pedro el Viejo is a small medieval church in central Madrid, Spain.
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San Salvador
San Salvador is the capital and the largest city of El Salvador and its eponymous department.
San Sebastián de los Reyes
San Sebastián de los Reyes (colloquially called "Sanse") is a municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Madrid and San Sebastián de los Reyes are municipalities in the Community of Madrid.
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Sancho IV of Castile
Sancho IV of Castile (12 May 1258 – 25 April 1295) called the Brave (el Bravo), was the king of Castile, León and Galicia (now parts of Spain) from 1284 to his death.
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Santa Bárbara, Madrid
The Santa Barbara, also known as Church of the Monastery of the Salesas Reales is a Catholic church, built in Neoclassic style, in central Madrid, Spain.
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Santa Cruz Palace, Madrid
The Palacio de Santa Cruz or Palace of the Holy Cross is a baroque building in central Madrid, Spain.
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Santiago
Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas.
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium (Estadio Santiago Bernabéu) is a football stadium in Madrid, Spain.
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Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo (meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population.
Sarajevo
Sarajevo is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. Madrid and Sarajevo are capitals in Europe.
Schottische
The schottische is a partnered country dance that apparently originated in Bohemia.
Science
Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is an interdisciplinary body of the International Science Council (ISC).
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Seating capacity
Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law.
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Second Spanish Republic
The Spanish Republic, commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic, was the form of democratic government in Spain from 1931 to 1939.
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Secondary sector of the economy
In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing.
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Secundino Zuazo
Secundino Zuazo Ugalde (1887–1971) was a Spanish architect and city planner.
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Segovia
Segovia is a city in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain.
Segovia Viaduct
The Segovia Viaduct is a viaduct in the La Latina neighborhood in Madrid, Spain.
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Segunda División
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commonly known as Segunda División, and officially known as LaLiga HyperMotion for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spanish football league system.
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Semi-arid climate
A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type.
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Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea.
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Sepúlveda, Segovia
Sepúlveda is a municipality located in the province of Segovia, Castile and León, Spain.
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Seville
Seville (Sevilla) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville.
Shack
A shack (or, in some areas, shanty) is a type of small shelter or dwelling, often primitive or rudimentary in design and construction.
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Sierra de Guadarrama
The Sierra de Guadarrama (Guadarrama Mountains) is a mountain range forming the main eastern section of the Sistema Central, the system of mountain ranges along the centre of the Iberian Peninsula.
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SIMO TCI
SIMO TCI was a computer expo held every November in Madrid, Spain from 1961 to 2013.
Snail
A snail is a shelled gastropod.
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Sofia
Sofia (Sofiya) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. Madrid and Sofia are capitals in Europe.
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Sorolla Museum
The Sorolla Museum (Museo Sorolla) is a single-artist museum in Madrid, Spain, devoted to the work and life of Joaquín Sorolla and the members of his family, such as his daughter Elena.
Soto de Viñuelas
Soto de Viñuelas is a meadow-oak forest north of the city of Madrid, south of Tres Cantos and San Agustín del Guadalix, east of the Monte de El Pardo and west of San Sebastián de los Reyes, all municipalities are parts of the Community of Madrid, Spain.
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Southern Europe
Southern Europe is the southern region of Europe.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
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Spain national football team
The Spain national football team (Selección Española de Fútbol) has represented Spain in men's international football competitions since 1920.
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Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation
The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) (Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo) is a Spanish autonomous agency responsible for the management of the Government international development cooperation policy.
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Spanish American wars of independence
The Spanish American wars of independence (Guerras de independencia hispanoamericanas) took place throughout Spanish America during the early 19th century, with the aim of political independence from Spanish rule.
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Spanish basketball league system
The Spanish basketball league system is a series of connected competitions for professional basketball clubs in Spain.
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Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.
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Spanish Constitution of 1931
The Spanish Constitution of 1931 was approved by the Constituent Assembly on 9 December 1931.
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Spanish dialects and varieties
Spanish dialects in Colombia. Spanish dialects spoken in Venezuela. Some of the regional varieties of the Spanish language are quite divergent from one another, especially in pronunciation and vocabulary, and less so in grammar.
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Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.
Spanish Golden Age
The Spanish Golden Age (Spanish: Siglo de Oro ˈsiɣlo ðe ˈoɾo, "Golden Century") was a period that coincided with the political rise of the Spanish Empire under the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and the Spanish Habsburgs.
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Spanish Grand Prix
The Spanish Grand Prix (Gran Premio de España, Gran Premi d'Espanya) is a Formula One motor racing event currently held at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
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Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Spanish literature
Spanish literature generally refers to literature (Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the Kingdom of Spain.
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Spanish miracle
The Spanish miracle (el milagro español) refers to a period of exceptionally rapid development and growth across all major areas of economic activity in Spain during the latter part of the Francoist regime, 1959 to 1974, in which GDP averaged a 6.5 percent growth rate per year, and was itself part of a much longer period of an above average GDP growth rate from 1951 to 2007.
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Spanish National Orchestra
The Orquesta Nacional de España (Spanish National Orchestra) is a Spanish orchestra based in Madrid.
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Spanish National Research Council
The Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe.
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Spanish omelette
Spanish omelette or Spanish tortilla is a traditional dish from Spain.
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Spanish Realist literature
Spanish Realist literature is the literature written in Spain during the second half of the 19th century, following the Realist movement which predominated in Europe.
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Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español; PSOE) is a social-democraticThe PSOE is described as a social-democratic party by numerous sources.
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Special Protection Area
A special protection area (SPA) is a designation under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds.
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Spire
A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof of a building or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples.
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Squid
A squid (squid) is a mollusc with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the orders Myopsida, Oegopsida, and Bathyteuthida.
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St Nicholas' Church, Madrid
The Church of San Nicolás (Spanish: Iglesia de San Nicolás) also known as the church of Church of San Nicolas de Bari, or the Church of San Nicolas de los Servitas, is a Catholic parish church in central Madrid, Spain.
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Standard of living
Standard of living is the level of income, comforts and services available to an individual, community or society.
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State Meteorological Agency
The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) is a state agency of the Government of Spain responsible for providing weather forecast, warnings of hazardous weather and assisting the administrations in such matters.
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Sucre
Sucre is the de jure capital city of Bolivia, the capital of the Chuquisaca Department and the sixth most populous city in Bolivia.
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Suebi
The Suebi (also spelled Suevi) or Suebians were a large group of Germanic peoples originally from the Elbe river region in what is now Germany and the Czech Republic.
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Summary execution
In civil and military jurisprudence, summary execution is the putting to death of a person accused of a crime without the benefit of a free and fair trial.
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Tagus
The Tagus (Tajo; Tejo) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula.
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Taifa of Toledo
The Taifa of Toledo was an islamic polity (taifa) located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula in the high middle ages.
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Talgo AVRIL
Talgo Avril is a high-speed train made by Talgo.
Tapas
Tapas are appetisers or snacks in Spanish cuisine.
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Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.
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Teacher education
Teacher education or teacher training refers to programs, policies, procedures, and provision designed to equip (prospective) teachers with the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, approaches, methodologies and skills they require to perform their tasks effectively in the classroom, school, and wider community.
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Teatro de la Zarzuela
The Teatro de la Zarzuela is a theatre in Madrid, Spain.
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Teatro Monumental
The Teatro Monumental (Monumental Theatre) is a concert hall in Madrid.
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Teatro Real
The Teatro Real (Royal Opera of Madrid) is an opera house in Madrid, Spain.
Technical University of Madrid
The Technical University of Madrid or sometimes called Polytechnic University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM) is a public university, located in Madrid, Spain.
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Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa—formally Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District (Tegucigalpa, Municipio del Distrito Central or Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.), and colloquially referred to as Tegus or Teguz—is the capital and largest city of Honduras along with its sister city, Comayagüela.
Telecinco
Telecinco is a Spanish free-to-air television channel operated by Mediaset España.
Teledeporte
Teledeporte (TDP) is a Spanish free-to-air television channel owned and operated by Televisión Española (TVE), the television division of state-owned public broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE).
Telefónica
, S.A. is a Spanish multinational telecommunications company with registered office and headquarters located in two different places, both in Madrid, Spain.
Telemadrid
Telemadrid is a public television station in the Community of Madrid, Spain, the flagship channel of the regional public broadcaster Radio Televisión Madrid (RTVM).
Temple of Debod
The Temple of Debod (Templo de Debod) is an ancient Nubian temple currently located in Madrid, Spain.
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Tenerife
Tenerife (formerly spelled Teneriffe) is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands.
Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).
Tertiary sector of the economy
The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle).
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Tetuán, Madrid
Tetuán is a district of Madrid, Spain.
Thalweg
In geography, hydrography, and fluvial geomorphology, a thalweg or talweg is the line or curve of lowest elevation within a valley or watercourse.
The arts
The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation.
The Dog in the Manger (play)
The Dog in the Manger or The Gardener's Dog (El Perro del Hortelano) is a 1618 play by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega.
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The Garden of Earthly Delights
The Garden of Earthly Delights is the modern title given to a triptych oil painting on oak panel painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between 40 and 60 years old.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Judgement of Paris (Rubens)
The Judgement of Paris refers to any of the several paintings of the Judgement of Paris produced by Peter Paul Rubens, though he did not match the 22 depictions of the subject attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder.
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Theoretical physics
Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain, and predict natural phenomena.
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Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum (i,; named after its founder, Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza), or simply the Thyssen, is an art museum in Madrid, Spain, located near the Prado Museum on one of the city's main boulevards.
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Tintoretto
Jacopo Robusti (late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594), best known as Tintoretto, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school.
Tirso de Molina
Gabriel Téllez (24 March 1583 20 February 1648), also known as Tirso de Molina, was a Spanish Baroque dramatist, poet, and Roman Catholic monk.
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Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian, was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting.
Tokyo
Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.
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Toledo, Spain
Toledo is a city and municipality of Spain, the capital of the province of Toledo and the de jure seat of the government and parliament of the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha.
Torre Picasso
Torre Picasso (Picasso Tower) is a skyscraper in Madrid, Spain designed by Minoru Yamasaki.
Torrejón Air Base
Torrejón Air Base (Base Aérea de Torrejón de Ardoz) is both a major Spanish Air and Space Force base and the co-located Madrid–Torrejón Airport, a secondary civilian airport for the city and metropolitan area of Madrid, east-northeast of the city center in central Spain.
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Torrejón de Ardoz
Torrejón de Ardoz is a municipality of Spain belonging to the Community of Madrid. Madrid and Torrejón de Ardoz are municipalities in the Community of Madrid.
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Torrespaña
Torrespaña is a high reinforced concrete freestanding broadcasting tower in Madrid, Spain.
Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel.
Town hall
In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or municipal building (in the Philippines) is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality.
Trade show
A trade show, also known as trade fair, trade exhibition, or trade exposition, is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest products and services, meet with industry partners and customers, study activities of competitors, and examine recent market trends and opportunities.
Transport hub
A transport hub is a place where passengers and cargo are exchanged between vehicles and/or between transport modes.
Transport in Madrid
Madrid is served by highly developed transport infrastructure.
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Treasure of Guarrazar
The Treasure of Guarrazar, Guadamur, Province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain, is an archeological find composed of twenty-six votive crowns and gold crosses that had originally been offered to the Roman Catholic Church by the Kings of the Visigoths in the seventh century in Hispania, as a gesture of the orthodoxy of their faith and their submission to the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
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Tres Cantos
Tres Cantos is a municipality of Spain located in Community of Madrid. Madrid and Tres Cantos are municipalities in the Community of Madrid.
Trienio Liberal
The Trienio Liberal or Three Liberal Years was a period of three years in the modern history of Spain between 1820 and 1823, when a liberal government ruled Spain after a military uprising in January 1820 by the lieutenant-colonel Rafael de Riego against the absolutist rule of Ferdinand VII.
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Tripe
Tripe is a type of edible lining from the stomachs of various farm animals.
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Tripoli, Libya
Tripoli (translation) is the capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.183 million people in 2023.
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
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TVE Internacional
TVE Internacional is a Spanish satellite free-to-air and pay television channel owned and operated by Televisión Española (TVE), the television division of state-owned public broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE).
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UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competition winners through a round robin group stage to qualify for a double-legged knockout format, and a single leg final.
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UEFA Europa League
The UEFA Europa League (previously known as the UEFA Cup), abbreviated as UEL or sometimes UEFA EL, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs.
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Umayyad state of Córdoba
The Umayyad state of Córdoba was an Arab Islamic state ruled by the Umayyad dynasty from 756 to 1031.
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UN Tourism
UN Tourism (UNWTO until 2023) is a specialized agency of the United Nations which promotes responsible, sustainable and universally-accessible tourism.
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities
The Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities, UCCI (Unión de Ciudades Capitales Iberoamericanas and União de Cidades Capitais Ibero-americanas), is an international, non-governmental organization of several major Ibero-American cities that fosters ties and friendly relations between its members.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
United Nations Human Settlements Programme
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the United Nations programme for human settlements and sustainable urban development.
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Universidad Camilo José Cela
The University Camilo José Cela (UCJC) is a private university established in 2000 and based in Madrid, Spain.
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University of Alcalá
The University of Alcalá (Universidad de Alcalá) is a public university located in Alcalá de Henares, a city 35 km (22 miles) northeast of Madrid in Spain and also the third-largest city of the region.
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University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
The University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, also known as the ULPGC (Spanish Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is a Spanish university located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the capital city of Gran Canaria island.
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University of Murcia
The University of Murcia (Universidad de Murcia) is the primary institute of higher education in Murcia, Spain.
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University of Oviedo
The University of Oviedo (Universidad de Oviedo, Asturian: Universidá d'Uviéu) is a public university in Asturias (Spain).
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University of Porto
The University of Porto (Universidade do Porto) is a Portuguese public research university located in Porto, and founded on 22 March 1911.
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University of the Basque Country
The University of the Basque Country (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, EHU; Universidad del País Vasco, UPV; UPV/EHU) is a Spanish public university of the Basque Autonomous Community.
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University of Zaragoza
The University of Zaragoza, sometimes referred to as Saragossa University is a public university with teaching campuses and research centres spread over the three provinces of Aragon (Spain).
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Urban heat island
Urban areas usually experience the urban heat island (UHI) effect, that is, they are significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas.
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Urban history
Urban history is a field of history that examines the historical nature of cities and towns, and the process of urbanization.
Usera
Usera is a district of Madrid, Spain.
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Valencia
Valencia (officially in Valencian: València) is the capital of the province and autonomous community of the same name in Spain.
Valladolid
Valladolid is a municipality in Spain and the primary seat of government and de facto capital of the autonomous community of Castile and León.
Vallecas
Vallecas was a municipality of Spain that disappeared as such in 1950, when its annexation to the municipality of Madrid took place.
Vandals
The Vandals were a Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland.
Venezuelans in Spain
Venezuelans form one of the main immigrant groups in Spain, which is also the European country to which most Venezuelans choose to migrate because of shared language, customs and family ties.
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Vicálvaro
Vicálvaro is a district in the southeast of Madrid, Spain.
Vienna Secession
The Vienna Secession (Wiener Secession; also known as the Union of Austrian Artists or Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs) is an art movement, closely related to Art Nouveau, that was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian painters, graphic artists, sculptors and architects, including Josef Hoffman, Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner and Gustav Klimt.
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Villa de Vallecas
Villa de Vallecas ("Village of Vallecas") is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain.
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Villaverde (Madrid)
Villaverde is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain.
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Virgin of Almudena
The Virgin of Almudena (Virgen de la Almudena) is a medieval statue of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ.
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Visigoths
The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were a Germanic people united under the rule of a king and living within the Roman Empire during late antiquity.
Vocational school
A vocational school, trade school, or technical school is a type of educational institution, which, depending on the country, may refer to either secondary or post-secondary education designed to provide vocational education or technical skills required to complete the tasks of a particular and specific job.
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Vuelta a España
The Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain) is an annual multi-stage bicycle race primarily held in Spain, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries.
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War of the Spanish Succession
The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict fought between 1701 and 1714.
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Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland. Madrid and Warsaw are capitals in Europe.
Water supply
Water supply is the provision of water by public utilities, commercial organisations, community endeavors or by individuals, usually via a system of pumps and pipes.
Weather station
A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate.
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Wendell Cox
Wendell Cox is an American urban policy analyst and proponent of the use of the private car over rail projects.
Yeísmo
Yeísmo (literally "Y-ism") is a distinctive feature of certain dialects of the Spanish language, characterized by the loss of the traditional palatal lateral approximant phoneme (written) and its merger into the phoneme (written). It is an example of delateralization.
Zamboanga City
Zamboanga City, officially the City of Zamboanga (Ciudad de Zamboanga, Dāira sin Sambuangan, Lungsod ng Zamboanga, Dakbayan sa Zamboanga) or Jambangan in the native Subanon language, is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Zamboanga Peninsula region of the Philippines.
Zaragoza
Zaragoza also known in English as Saragossa,Encyclopædia Britannica is the capital city of the province of Zaragoza and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain.
Zarzuela
Zarzuela is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular songs, as well as dance.
Zoo
A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes.
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Zoo Aquarium de Madrid
The Madrid Zoo Aquarium is a zoo and aquarium located in the Casa de Campo in Madrid, Spain.
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1964 European Nations' Cup final
The 1964 European Nations' Cup final was a football match at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid, on 21 June 1964, to determine the winner of the 1964 European Nations' Cup.
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1979 Madrid City Council election
The 1979 Madrid City Council election, also the 1979 Madrid municipal election, was held on Tuesday, 3 April 1979, to elect the 1st City Council of the municipality of Madrid.
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1981 Spanish coup attempt
A coup d'état was attempted in Spain in February 1981 by elements of the Civil Guard and the Spanish military.
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1982 FIFA World Cup final
The 1982 FIFA World Cup final was a football match contested between Italy and West Germany.
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1986 FIBA World Championship
The 1986 FIBA World Championship was the 10th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's national teams.
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2004 Madrid train bombings
The 2004 Madrid train bombings (also known in Spain as 11M) were a series of coordinated, nearly simultaneous bombings against the Cercanías commuter train system of Madrid, Spain, on the morning of 11 March 2004—three days before Spain's general elections.
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2007–2008 financial crisis
The 2007–2008 financial crisis, or the global financial crisis (GFC), was the most severe worldwide economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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2008–2014 Spanish financial crisis
The 2008–2014 Spanish financial crisis, also known as the Great Recession in Spain or the Great Spanish Depression, began in 2008 during the world 2007–2008 financial crisis.
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2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup
The 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the 17th edition of the FIBA Basketball World Cup, the tournament previously known as the FIBA World Championship.
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20th-century art
Twentieth-century art—and what it became as modern art—began with modernism in the late nineteenth century.
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24 Horas (Spanish TV channel)
Canal 24 Horas is a Spanish free-to-air television channel owned and operated by Televisión Española (TVE), the television division of state-owned public broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE).
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See also
9th-century establishments in Spain
- Alcazaba of Mérida
- Badajoz
- Castle of Cardona
- Church of San Salvador de Valdediós
- Church of Santa María de Bendones
- County of Barcelona
- Iglesia de Jesús de Nazareno (Cudillero)
- Kingdom of Navarre
- Madrid
- Monastery of Sant Joan de les Abadesses
- Murcia
- San Miguel de Lillo
- Sant Salvador de la Vedella
- Santa Cristina de Lena
- Santa María de Obarra
- Santa María del Naranco
- Santa Maria de Ripoll
Populated places established in the 9th century
- Ísafjörður
- Aalst, Belgium
- Akranes
- Al-Qata'i
- Alcamo
- Andlau
- Annagassan
- Bad Frankenhausen
- Bad Nauheim
- Badajoz
- Bagan
- Bardy-Świelubie
- Beli, Kočani
- Bussana Vecchia
- Będzin
- Cizre
- Colmar
- Cricklade
- Dublin
- Fraxinetum
- Ganja, Azerbaijan
- Grimsby
- Hamburg
- Heraklion
- History of Prague
- Jie Prefecture (Gansu)
- Kaulas Fort
- Kecskemét
- Leirvík
- Madrid
- Mahendraparvata
- Marsala
- Murcia
- Oldham
- Polichalur
- Poltava
- Prague
- Raqqada
- Sayil
- Sfax
- Stornoway
- Słupsk
- Tønsberg
- Trzebiatów
- Upton-upon-Severn
- Uzhhorod
- Veszprém
- Włocławek
- Zhytomyr
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