Tag Archives: Gibraltar

Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory in the extreme south of the Iberian Peninsula. After the Peace of Vienna it was decided that the Gibraltar peninsula would belong to the United Kingdom “forever and ever”. Over the centuries there have been protests against this decision, but the people of Gibraltar do not want to change… Read More »

History Integrated into the Crown of Castile from the second half of the 15th century, it was occupied in 1704 by the Anglo-Dutch squad in support of the pretender Carlos “III” of Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession, at the end of which it was ceded to the crown. British in 1713. The residents who did not want to be British, moved… Read More »