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ID: 7005233
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Record Type: administrative |
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Gibraltar (dependent state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 36 08 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 36.1333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 005 21 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -5.3500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Rocky, narrow peninsula of strategic importance, coextensive with British crown colony; was known to the Greeks & others as one of the Pillars of Hercules; fortified by Tariq the Moor in 711; retaken by Spanish in 1462, & conquered by Britain in 1704; official language is English, though Spanish is widely spoken. |
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| Gibraltar (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Jabal Ṭāriq (C,O,Arabic (transliterated)-P,U,N)
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............ | "Mount Tarik" in Arabic, for the conquerer Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād, & from which the name "Gibraltar" is derived |
| Jebel Tariq (C,O,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Jabal-al-Tarik (C,O,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Gebel-al-Tarik (C,O,Arabic (transliterated),U,N)
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| Gibilterra (C,O,Italian-P,U,N)
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| GIB (C,O,ISO3L)
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| GI (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO292 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| GI00 (C,O,FIPS)
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| Gibraltar dependent state (C,O,display,English,U,N)
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| dependent state (preferred, C) |
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ceded to Britain by Spain in 1713 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| colony (C) |
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| peninsula (C) |
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