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A slight departure from the articles I've brought here previously, but on a very interesting topic. Gibraltar is a tiny piece of barren rock off the coast of Spain, but its position at the western entrance to the Mediterranean and on the northern side of one of the narrowest gaps between Europe and Africa have given it military importance from the eighth century to the present day. The first settlers were the Moors of north Africa, who were relieved of it after some 600 years by the Spanish, who were in turn relieved of it by the English (who shortly thereafter became the British). Throughout its turbulent history, it has had an effect on world history utterly disproportionate to its size; the Great Siege was of course fought as part of the American War of Independence, but the Rock also played a key role in the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Castilian, and many other conflicts, not to mention the Reconquista. So there's something here for everyone, and I hope you enjoy reading.
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CommentsSupport; high quality work, and a fascinating subject! :) I've done some light copyediting and made some comments below. As usual, these are just suggestions for your consideration!
That's all for now, I might go through and copyedit it a bit more later, but that'd really just be shifting letters for fun :) Its basically A-Class material at this stage. -- Errant ( chat!) 22:13, 11 April 2013 (UTC) reply
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Comments This article is in very good shape, and I have only the following comments:
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Article promoted. Anotherclown ( talk) 09:33, 17 May 2013 (UTC) reply
A slight departure from the articles I've brought here previously, but on a very interesting topic. Gibraltar is a tiny piece of barren rock off the coast of Spain, but its position at the western entrance to the Mediterranean and on the northern side of one of the narrowest gaps between Europe and Africa have given it military importance from the eighth century to the present day. The first settlers were the Moors of north Africa, who were relieved of it after some 600 years by the Spanish, who were in turn relieved of it by the English (who shortly thereafter became the British). Throughout its turbulent history, it has had an effect on world history utterly disproportionate to its size; the Great Siege was of course fought as part of the American War of Independence, but the Rock also played a key role in the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Castilian, and many other conflicts, not to mention the Reconquista. So there's something here for everyone, and I hope you enjoy reading.
HJ Mitchell |
Penny for your thoughts? 00:46, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
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CommentsSupport; high quality work, and a fascinating subject! :) I've done some light copyediting and made some comments below. As usual, these are just suggestions for your consideration!
That's all for now, I might go through and copyedit it a bit more later, but that'd really just be shifting letters for fun :) Its basically A-Class material at this stage. -- Errant ( chat!) 22:13, 11 April 2013 (UTC) reply
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send... over) 04:58, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
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Comments This article is in very good shape, and I have only the following comments:
Comments: to be honest, I don't know much about reviewing lists, so I only had a quick look: