Spain

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Spain is a land in the south of Europe, taking up most of the Iberian Byland, alongside Portugal which is to its southwest. It is beset to the northeast by the Pyrenees which make up its threshold with Frankrike and Andorra, to the northwest by the Bight of Biscay, to the south by the Neck of Gibraltar, and to the east by the Midearth Sea.

Spain is a writtenlaw, mootish kingdom with its headtown at Madrid in the midst of the land. The biggest tongue is Spanish, but Catalan, Basque, and Galician are spoken as well and have some rights in their own shires.

Spain also holds two iland-sets, the Balearic Ilands in the Midworld Sea and the Dog Ilands in the Atlantic Sea, as well as the towns of Ceuta and Melilla on the northwest strand of Africa.

Spain was held by the Phoenicians before being taken over by the Romans, who settled there in throngs. After the fall of the Roman Kyserdom, the land passed to Gothic Christian kings. In the 700s, the Moors came in from North Africa and took over all but a tiny rump of the land in the north; but over the next seven hundred years, the kings of Leon, Castile, and Aragon took over the byland in what is called the Retaking. The Retaking was finished in 1492; the same year saw Christopher Columbus get to Ameriksland in the hire of Fernando and Isabel, the king of Aragon and queen of Castile who through their wedlock had banded the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon into one. The sailing of Columbus brought in a new span of years in which Spain had sway over the waves and much of the New World. However, its highness shrank over time owing to followings of wars and the unworthiness of many of their kings.

In the Twentieth Hundredyear, the loss of Spain's last settlements foretold a time of great unsteadiness. The kingship was overthrown and a commonwealth set up; this in turn was overthrown by the Overherethane Francisco Franco, who led the land for nigh on fifty years. When he died, he set up Juan Carlos de Borbón, the grandson of the erstwhile King, to follow him and bring back the kingship. However, King John Charles I chose to bring back folkwield, called a poll for a new moot, and backed up the writing of a writtenlaw. Though Spain went through hard times, it is now a wealthy land in the midst of the European Band.

The new writtenlaw put together Spain's fifty shires into seventeen self-leading shirebands:

• Andalusia
• Aragon
• Asturias
• Balearic Ilands
• Basque Country
• Cantabria
• Castile and Leon
• Castile and La Mancha
• Catalonia
• Dog Islands
• Extremadura
• Galicia
• La Rioja
• Madrid Shireband
• Murcia
• Navarre
• Valencian Shireband