Tag: Spain

The name Spain derives from Hispania, the name by which the Romans geographically designated the whole of the Iberian Peninsula, this term in turn, derived from the name Iberia, preferred by Greek authors to refer to the same space. However, the fact that the term...

Canary Islands, Canaries, Spanish Islas Canarias [“Dog Islands”; called “Canaria” by Pliny the Elder because of the large number of dogs observed there], Spanish archipelago in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa, also a Spanish autonomous region, 7 447...