Spain Spain is the country located in the extreme southwest of the European continent. It occupies about 85 percent of the Iberian Peninsula, which it shares with its smaller neighbor, Portugal. Spain is bordered on the west by Portugal; in the northeast it borders France, from which it is separated by the Pyrenees Mountains. Spain's only other land border is in the far south with Gibraltar, an enclave that belonged to Spain until 1713. Elsewhere, the country …
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…nd southern coasts. These outsiders found a mosaic of peoples collectively known as the Iberians, who, however, did not have a single culture or even share a single language. There was a kingdom called Tartessus which flourished between 800 and 550 BC, that ruled much of the valley of the Guadalquivir. Elsewhere, political organization was less sophisticated, consisting of a number of city-states in the coastal regions and of clans in the interior and the northwest.