History, Short, Spain

A Short History of Spain

Wirtten many years ago by Mary Parmele, she begins this book with the following passage: No name is more fraught with picturesque and romantic interest than that of the "Spanish Peninsula." After finishing this rare bit of handiwork nature seems to have thrown up a great ragged wall, stretching from sea to sea, to protect it; and the Pyrenees have stood for ages a frowning barrier, descending toward France on the northern side from gradually decreasing heightsâ€"but on the Spanish side in wild disorder, plunging down through steep chasms, ravines, and precipicesâ€"with sharp cliffs towering thousands of feet skyward, which better than standing armies protect the sunny plains below. But the "Spanish Peninsula," at the time we are about to consider, was neither "Spanish" nor was it a "peninsula." At the dawn of history this sunny corner of Europe was known as Iberia, and its people as Iberians.









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