By Gary McDonogh
Iberian WorldsВ is an innovative, brief textual content that dramatically depicts very important globalization issues and tactics in the course of the vital flows and affects Spain and Portugal have had with many vital areas of the realm for plenty of centuries. Spain and Portugal have lengthy histories on the state of the art of worldwide kinfolk, coping with far-flung empires, and writer Gary McDonogh stresses this old viewpoint besides asВ foregrounding the monstrous current international fostered via the ''Iberian project'' - Latin the United States, Southern Europe, components of Asia and Africa, within which Spain and Portugal own huge, immense power.
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This plateau corresponds in large part to the territories of Castile, León and Extremadura. The Sierra de Guadarrama, whose name betrays Arab influence, bisects the Meseta from northeast to southwest; Madrid is the second highest capital in Europe, after Andorra la Vella. Mountains feature prominently across Iberian geography. Spain itself is the highest country in Europe after Switzerland. Mountains have divided peoples and protected villages: towns like Arenys de Mar and Arenys de Munt, on the Catalan Costa Brava, remind us that villagers fled pirates and storms (mar/ 33 Mapping the Iberian Peninsula sea) for safety in the hills (munt).
Temperatures range from frozen winters, with ice and snow as temperatures drop below 0° C, to boiling summers when days rise into the 30s (86–102° F). Rain is 36 Mapping the Iberian Peninsula scant and unreliable. This landscape is encapsulated in the proverbial formula “nueve meses de invierno y tres meses de infierno” (nine months of winter and three months of hell). While these geographical features map out broad possibilities of agriculture, settlement and development, human action has further differentiated them.
19,177 sq. ) is larger that Catalonia, occupying ten percent of the land of the Spanish state. 3 million, however, it is much less dense than Catalonia. Catalonia “joined” the kingdom of Aragon through the dynastic marriage of Count Ramon Berenguer IV to the heiress Petronilla of Aragon in 1137. Although the Aragonese revolted with the Catalans against the state in 1704, the area differs in its agricultural and industrial formation. Many Aragonese, in fact, emigrated to industrial Barcelona in the nineteenth century.