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| Captured in the 18th century, it had been a strategic British military base for several centuries, and still remains closely-knit with its home country even as a more civilian, tourism-and-finance-focused outpost. There is the occassional verbal sabre-rattling between Spain and the UK over Gibraltar, but it has effectivelly never amounted to anything. | Captured in the 18th century, it had been a strategic British military base for several centuries, and still remains closely-knit with its home country even as a more civilian, tourism-and-finance-focused outpost. There is the occassional verbal sabre-rattling between Spain and the UK over Gibraltar, but it has effectivelly never amounted to anything. | ||
| - | Also, the minor wilderness on and around the Rock of Gibraltar is the only place in Europe with a population of wild monkeys, specifically Barbary Macaques. Predictably, | + | Also, the minor wilderness on and around the Rock of Gibraltar is the only place in Europe with a population of wild monkeys, specifically Barbary Macaques. Predictably, |
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