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View of Gijón c. 1630 Map of Gijón in 1910. The invasions of barbarian tribes in the 5th and 6th centuries left no traces. The region submitted to the power of the Visigoth king Sisebut in the 7th century. This period marks the beginnings of Christianization, one of the first Christian worshipping places being the Roman villa of Veranes.
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
Italy has served as a member of the World Heritage Committee five times, 1978–1985, 1987–1993, 1993–1999, 1999–2001, and 2021–2025. [3] Out of Italy's 60 heritage sites, 54 are cultural and 6 are natural. [3] Seven sites are transnational.
1982 – Part of 1982 FIFA World Cup football contest held in Gijón, including the controversial match between West Germany and Austria. 1984 – Student Raúl Losa is killed in a demonstration against shipyard reconversion, when a man used his gun to try to prevent his car from being used as a barricade.
Cimavilla (Spanish: Cimadevilla) [1] is a neighbourhood of the municipality of Gijón, in Asturias, Spain.Its population was 2,811 in 2012. [2]Cimavilla is the oldest part of the city, in it there are ruins of the old Roman settlement.
Algeria began their campaign by recording a surprising 2–1 win over West Germany on the opening day, described as the "greatest World Cup upset since North Korea beat Italy in 1966", [4] and as "one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history". [5] Algeria became the first African or Arab team to defeat a European team at the FIFA World Cup ...
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