Gibraltar (pronounced /dʒɨˈbrɔːltər/) is a self-governing Self-governance is an abstract concept that refers to several scales of organization. It may refer to personal conduct or family units but more commonly refers to larger scale activities, i.e., professions, industry bodies, religions and political units, up to and including autonomous regions and aboriginal peoples . It falls within the larger[3] British overseas territory The British overseas territories are fourteen territories that are under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom, but which do not form part of the United Kingdom itself located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France. It is the westernmost of the three major southern European peninsulas—the Iberian, Italian, and Balkan peninsulas. It is bordered on the southeast and east by the and Europe Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains, the Kuma-Manych Depression, and the Black Sea to the southeast. Europe is washed at the entrance of the Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by the Levant. The sea is technically a part of the Atlantic Ocean, although it is usually identified as a completely separate overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar The Strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Spain from Morocco. The name comes from Gibraltar, which in turn originates from the Arabic Jebel Tariq (meaning "Tariq's mountain"), albeit the Arab name for the Strait is Bab el-Zakat or "Gate of Charity". It is. The territory covers 6.843 square kilometres (2.642 sq mi) and shares a land border with Spain Spain /ˈspeɪn/ (Spanish: España, pronounced [esˈpaɲa] ( listen)), or the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.[note 6] Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north by France, to the north. Gibraltar has historically been an important base for the British Armed Forces The armed forces of the United Kingdom, known as His/Her Majesty's Armed Forces or sometimes the British Armed Forces, and sometimes legally the Armed Forces of the Crown, encompasses a navy, an army, and an air force. The British Armed Forces are a purely professional and volunteer force with a reported personnel strength of 425,500 in 2006 , HM and is the site of a Royal Navy The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of HM Armed Forces . From the beginning of the 18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s. In World War II, the Royal Navy operated base.
A one-year investigation and analysis of 235 countries and territories by Jane’s Country Risk listed Gibraltar as 5th most prosperous and stable worldwide, and the highest ranked British territory.[4]
The sovereignty of Gibraltar has been a major point of contention in Anglo-Spanish relations Spanish–British relations, also called Anglo-Spanish relations, are the bilateral international relations between Spain and the United Kingdom. Gibraltar was ceded by Spain to the Crown of Great Britain in perpetuity, under the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht The Treaty of Utrecht, that established the Peace of Utrecht, rather than a single document, comprises a series of individual peace treaties signed in the Dutch city of Utrecht in March and April 1713. Concluded between various European states, it helped end the War of the Spanish Succession, though Spain asserts a claim Gibraltar is a self-governing British overseas territory near the southernmost tip of the Iberian peninsula subject to a disputed irredentist claim by Spain to the territory and seeks its return.[5] The overwhelming majority of Gibraltarians The Gibraltarians , are a Southern European nation and cultural group native to Gibraltar, a British overseas territory located near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance to the Mediterranean sea strongly oppose this, along with any proposal of shared sovereignty.[6][7] The British government has stated that it is committed to respecting the Gibraltarians' wishes.[8]
Gibraltar Chronicle
The Gibraltar Ornithological & Natural History Society has announced that this year's European Bat Night will be held at the Open Air Theatre, ...
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The waters of the Strait of . Gibraltar. (left) and the Mediterranean Sea (right) show a rippled pattern of internal waves. These are gravity waves that oscillate within, rather than on the surface of, a fluid medium. ...
