No questions here on Historical flags, Turning points, Religion — nothing recorded for Spain.
Spain
ES / ESP 40.2°, -3.5°
Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union (EU) member state. Spanning the majority of the Iberian Peninsula, its territory also includes the Canary Islands, in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean; the Balearic Islands, in the Western Mediterranean Sea; and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, in mainland Africa. Peninsular Spain is bordered to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; to the east and south by the Mediterranean Sea, Gibraltar and Morocco ; and to the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. Spain's capital and largest city is Madrid; other major urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza, Seville, Bilbao, Málaga, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca and Las Palmas.
These are English demonyms for people from Spain. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.
Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.
Military standard
Roman Empire
27 BCE–476 CE in the West; eastern empire continued to 1453
Includes only parts of some modern states: much of Britain south of Scotland, and areas west of the Rhine or south of the Danube in Germany.
The aquila was a legion's eagle standard, not a national flag. No original legionary eagle is known to survive.
Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others.
Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is
hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that
fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk
import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing,
occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country
missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the
quiz no longer asks who fought in what.
Francisco FrancoDictator, 1939-1975
Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish military general and the dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975.
Isabella I of CastileQueen who financed Columbus
Isabella I, also known as Isabella the Catholic, was Queen of Castile and León from 1474 until her death in 1504.
Pablo PicassoPainter
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor who spent most of his adult life in France.
Miguel de CervantesAuthor of Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.
Most of this page is imported in bulk and carries no source of its
own. These entries were checked by hand against the source named,
and are reapplied after every dataset rebuild so a refetch cannot
quietly put the old value back.
Continents
— Seven-continent model. A country spanning two continents is filed under the one containing its capital; the other is accepted too.
The imported list was unordered and included overseas territory, so its first entry was not the continent the country is in. Source· true as of 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-11
Member of european union
— Full member states only, as the organisation itself lists them.
The imported member_of list is out of date for this organisation and is not asked about. Source· true as of 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-11
Member of nato
— Full member states only, as the organisation itself lists them.
The imported member_of list is out of date for this organisation and is not asked about. Source· true as of 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-11
Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data
(2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source:
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