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We usually use the word "ancient" for things really, really old. "Spain" hasn't been around that long. As for people living in the land called Spain today, Roman colonies there were big and strong contributors to the empire. There was supposedly an important city-state on the coast of Spain several centuries before that. In the biblical account of Jonah, the consonents used to say that Jonah was taking a boat to Tarshish would be used for that legendary city, so Jonah may have been headed for Spain instead of what is now northern Syria. That's the general range until the middle ages when Spanish nationalists gradually over-threw the Moors, the Moslem overlords that ran the land for several centuries.

2006-09-28 15:02:51 · answer #1 · answered by Rabbit 7 · 0 0

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