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  2. History of Madrid - Wikipedia

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    Immediately after the bombing of the nearing airports of Getafe and Cuatro Vientos, Madrid proper was bombed for the first time in the night of 27–28 August 1936 by a Luftwaffe's Junkers Ju 52 that threw several bombs on the Ministry of War and the Station of the North. Madrid "was to become the first big European city to be bombed by ...

  3. Timeline of Madrid - Wikipedia

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    1831 – Bolsa de Madrid founded. [11] 1832 – Lhardy patisserie in business. [12] 1835 – Ateneo de Madrid founded. 1836 Biblioteca Nacional established. [7] Literary University relocates to Madrid. 1840 – Monumento a los Caidos por España inaugurated. 1843 – Museo Naval de Madrid inaugurated. [13] 1850 – Teatro Real opera house opens.

  4. Madrid - Wikipedia

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    The 1979 municipal election brought Madrid's first democratically elected mayor since the Second Republic to power. Madrid was the scene of some of the most important events of the time, such as the mass demonstrations of support for democracy after the failed coup, 23-F, on 23 February 1981.

  5. Community of Madrid - Wikipedia

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    The Community of Madrid (Spanish: Comunidad de Madrid; [komuniˈðað ðe maˈðɾið] ⓘ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities and 50 provinces of Spain. It is located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, and of the Central Plateau (Meseta Central). Its capital and largest municipality is Madrid, which is also the capital of the ...

  6. Spain - Wikipedia

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    Spain, [f] officially the Kingdom of Spain, [a] [g] is a country in Southwestern Europe with territories in North Africa. [12] [h] Featuring the southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union member state.

  7. History of Spain - Wikipedia

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    Ethnology of the Iberian Peninsula c. 200 BC. The earliest record of Homo genus representatives living in Western Europe has been found in the Spanish cave of Atapuerca; a flint tool found there dates from 1.4 million years ago, and early human fossils date to roughly 1.2 million years ago. [1]

  8. List of sovereign states by date of formation - Wikipedia

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    Over 50% of the world's borders today were drawn as a result of British and French imperialism. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] An unambiguous measure is the date of national constitutions ; but as constitutions are an almost entirely modern concept, all formation dates by that criterion are modern or early modern (the oldest extant constitution being that ...

  9. Siege of Madrid - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Madrid was a two-and-a-half-year siege of the Republican-controlled Spanish capital city of Madrid by the Nationalist armies, under General Francisco Franco, during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939).