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| Capital (and largest city) |
Madrid | ||
| Language | Spanish | ||
| King | Felipe VI | ||
| Prime Minister | Mariano Rajoy | ||
| Area | 505,990 km² | ||
| Population | 46,439,864 | ||
| Currency | Peseta | ||
Modern humans first arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 35,000 years ago. Iberian cultures along with ancient Phoenician, Greek and Carthaginian settlements developed on the peninsula until it came under Roman rule around 200 BCE, after which the region was named Hispania. In the Middle Ages, the area was conquered by Germanic tribes and later by the Moors. Spain emerged as a unified country in the 15th century, following the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs and the completion of the centuries-long reconquest, or Reconquista, of the peninsula from the Moors in 1492. In the early modern period, Spain became one of history's first global colonial empires, leaving a vast cultural and linguistic legacy,
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