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Gibraltar is little more than a rocky out crop, the home of the famous Barbary apes that frequent the ‘Rock’. It is a self-governing British colony, situated on a small, narrow peninsula at the southern edge of Spain. | Gibraltar is little more than a rocky out crop, the home of the famous Barbary apes that frequent the ‘Rock’. It is a self-governing British colony, situated on a small, narrow peninsula at the southern edge of Spain. | ||
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Revision as of 18:48, 4 July 2007
Gibraltar is little more than a rocky out crop, the home of the famous Barbary apes that frequent the ‘Rock’. It is a self-governing British colony, situated on a small, narrow peninsula at the southern edge of Spain.
Claimed by the British in 1713, today it's an important air base for British Forces, as well as a Naval Base.
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