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A Timeline of Gibraltar's History in Gibraltar for kids; History of Gibraltar (detailed) in discoverGibraltar.com; Government of Gibraltar website: History of Gibraltar; Writing the Rock of Gibraltar by M. G. Sanchez. An online anthology of historical texts dealing with Gibraltar from 1720 to 1890.
The Gibraltar House of Assembly (now the Gibraltar Parliament), established in 1969. Spanish border pass for Gibraltarian residents, permitting day visits only. Although Gibraltar's civilian inhabitants had started to return as early as April 1944, the last evacuees did not arrive back home until as late as February 1951.
The Gibraltar Government has also argued that Gibraltar is a British territory and therefore by definition not an integral part of any other state, implying that Spain's territorial integrity cannot be affected by anything that occurs in Gibraltar: "Even if integration of a territory was demanded by an interested State it could not be had ...
Military history of Gibraltar during World War II • Timeline of events • A Catalina flies by the North Front of the Rock as it leaves Gibraltar on a patrol, 1942 (Imperial War Museum) Late 1939 Construction of a solid surface runway begins in Gibraltar. 9 Sep 1939 No. 202 Squadron RAF is ordered to Gibraltar. 25 Sep 1939
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Gibraltar played an important role in the Napoleonic Wars in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and in many later conflicts. Hitler drew up plans to besiege Gibraltar during the Second World War (Operation Felix), but the plans were never implemented and the Great Siege was the last military siege of Gibraltar. [21]
An aerial view Gibraltar from the air, looking north-west. Gibraltar (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ b r ɔː l t ər / ⓘ jib-RAWL-tər, Spanish: [xiβɾalˈtaɾ]) is a British Overseas Territory [a] and city [6] located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean (Strait of Gibraltar).
Hardy Town, Gibraltar; Hattersley Memorandum; Baron Heathfield; Heritage and Antiquities Act 2018; Template:History of Gibraltar; Timeline of the history of Gibraltar; History of nationality in Gibraltar; History of the Genoese in Gibraltar; History of the Maltese in Gibraltar