States and Territories Established in 1981 - Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Andalusia, Senegambia Confederation, Isabel Province, Kangwane (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Andalusia, Senegambia Confederation, Isabel Province, KaNgwane, Makira-Ulawa Province, Temotu Province, Malaita Province, KwaNdebele, Guadalcanal Province, KwaZulu, Central Province. Excerpt: Andalusia (English pronunciation: ; Spanish: , IPA: or ) is the most populous and the second largest in area autonomous community of the Kingdom of Spain. The region is divided into eight provinces: Huelva, Seville, Cadiz, Cordoba, Malaga, Jaen, Granada and Almeria. Andalusia is in the south of the Iberian peninsula, immediately south of the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Castile-La Mancha; west of the autonomous community of Murcia and the Mediterranean Sea; east of Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean; and north of the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar, which separates Spain from Morocco, and the Atlantic Ocean. The small British overseas territory of Gibraltar shares a three-quarter-mile land border with the Andalusian province of Cadiz at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar. Its capital and largest city is Seville (Spanish: Sevilla). Andalusia has three major geographic subregions. In the north, the mountainous Sierra Morena separates Andalusia from the plains of Extremadura and Castile-La Mancha on Spain's Meseta Central. South of that, one can distinguish Upper Andalusia, generally the Baetic System, from Lower Andalusia with its Baetic Depression of the valley of the Guadalquivir. The name Andalusia traces back to the Arabic language Al-Andalus ( ). As well as Muslim and Romani influences, the region's history and culture have been influenced by the earlier Iberians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Visigoths, all of whom preceded the Muslims, as well as the Castilian and other Christian North Iberian nationalities who conquered and repopulated the area...