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gibraltar
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gibraltar \Gi*bral"tar\, n.
A strongly fortified town on the south coast of Spain, held by the British since 1704; hence, an impregnable stronghold.
A kind of candy sweetmeat, or a piece of it; -- called, in full, Gibraltar rock.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, ancient Calpe, captured 710 C.E. by Saracen leader Tariq, renamed Jebel el Tarik "the Mountain of Tarik," hence the English name. A British possession since 1704. Figurative of impregnability by 1856.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1791
Land area (2000): 3.844530 sq. miles (9.957287 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.498067 sq. miles (1.289987 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.342597 sq. miles (11.247274 sq. km)
FIPS code: 32020
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 42.091342 N, 83.197305 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 48173
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Gibraltar
Wikipedia
Gibraltar is a self-governing British Overseas Territory, located to the north of the Strait of Gibraltar.
Gibraltar may also refer to:
Gibraltar (; ) is a British Overseas Territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula. It has an area of and shares its northern border with Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region. At its foot is a densely populated city area, home to over 30,000 Gibraltarians and other nationalities.
An Anglo-Dutch force captured Gibraltar from Spain in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession on behalf of the Habsburg pretender to the Spanish throne. The territory was subsequently ceded to Britain "in perpetuity" under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. During World War II it was an important base for the Royal Navy as it controlled the entrance and exit to the Mediterranean Sea, which is only eight miles (13 km) wide at this point. Today Gibraltar's economy is based largely on tourism, online gambling, financial services, and shipping.
The sovereignty of Gibraltar is a major point of contention in Anglo-Spanish relations as Spain asserts a claim to the territory. Gibraltarians overwhelmingly rejected proposals for Spanish sovereignty in a 1967 referendum and again in 2002. Under the Gibraltar constitution of 2006, Gibraltar governs its own affairs, though some powers, such as defence and foreign relations, remain the responsibility of the Government of the United Kingdom.
Gibraltar, also called The New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock, is a web site devoted to presenting news and reviews in the world of progressive rock. Gibraltar is well respected in the progressive rock community, and citations to it can be seen in numerous progressive rock related articles on Wikipedia. The encyclopedia is not freely editable by the public, but contributions may be submitted to the maintainers via email.
Gibraltar is a 1964 French thriller film directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit and starring Hildegard Knef, Gérard Barray, Geneviève Grad and Elisa Montés. A secret agent goes undercover to infiltrate smugglers between Tangiers and Gibraltar.
Gibraltar is a 1938 French drama film directed by Fedor Ozep and starring Viviane Romance, Roger Duchesne, Abel Jacquin and Erich von Stroheim.
Gibraltar (previously known as the Hugh Rodney Sharp Mansion), located at 2505 Pennsylvania Avenue in Wilmington, Delaware, is a country estate home dating from c. 1844 that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It takes its name from the Rock of Gibraltar, alluding to the high rocky outcrop on which the house was built. It is located just inside Wilmington's city limits and originally stood at the center of a much larger estate which has over time been reduced to the present area of about a city block in size. The house was originally built by John Rodney Brincklé and inherited by his brother's wife and children, before being bought in 1909 by Hugh Rodney Sharp, who was linked to the Du Pont family through marriage and work. Sharp expanded and remodeled the house, as well as commissioning the pioneering female landscape designer Marian Cruger Coffin to lay out the gardens.
The estate is now owned by a local preservation trust which acquired it in the 1990s after it was threatened with demolition and redevelopment. The gardens have since been restored and opened to the public. The estate was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 in recognition of its importance as a well-preserved example of the Country Place era of art and design. The mansion has not been occupied for many years and its condition has significantly deteriorated, but it is hoped that it will be restored for use as a commercial property with the proceeds going towards the continued preservation of the estate.
Usage examples of "gibraltar".
Tell him, at the same time, that I did not know the alcaide of Gibraltar was so vigilant in collecting his tolls.
Alexandria, Bengasi, Tripoli, Tunis and Algiers, passed the Rock of Gibraltar and turned north up the coast of Portugal.
After that the next sight of land would be the towering rocky mass of Europa Point, the southern end of Gibraltar, with Blackstrap Bay to the north of it on the Mediterranean side, and the rounded hills of Africa across the Strait.
Landford had ordered Dane to transport Sir Henry to Gibraltar, a duty better suited to the sloop Bluefin or one of the frigates, not a lumbering two-decker.
A rocky head like Gibraltar, a cold-bloodedlooking grey town, straggling up a steep hillside, a few coniferae, a great many grey junks, a few steamers and vessels of foreign rig at anchor, a number of sampans riding the rough water easily, seen in flashes between gusts of rain and spin-drift, were all I saw, but somehow it all pleased me from its breezy, northern look.
Bordeaux, San Sebastian, La Coruna, Lisbon, and finally through the Strait of Gibraltar.
A hundred tons of high explosive would hardly dent the Rock of Gibraltar, but I could take out a dragline with two five-pound charges of wrap-around explosive placed where the boom is hinged to the machine house.
From the top of the pass beyond the lakes there is a grand view of the volcano in all its nakedness, with its lava beds and fields of pumice, with the lakes of Onuma, Konuma, and Ginsainoma, lying in the forests at its feet, and from the top of another hill there is a remarkable view of windy Hakodate, with its headland looking like Gibraltar.
On the way from Ronda to Gibraltar are a number of villages whose Arab names are startling even in this land of Ishmaelitish memories.
So little did the Moors understand the position of things abroad, that at one time they made war upon Gibraltar, while expressing the warmest friendship for England, who then possessed it.
He was definitely caught between a rock and a hard place---a rock about the size of Gibraltar and a hard place about like Mount Rainier, and no space to move at that.
That with the Mediterranean was somewhat neglected, as the government relied more on the friendship of the piratical Algerines than on the solid possession of Gibraltar and Minorca.
Strait of Gibraltar, and that raised the spirits of all the troupers and all but the mossiest shellbacks among the crew.
Four, her sense of identity and her desires, or her skandhas, or whatever you want to call them, are as firm as the Rock of Gibraltar.
Singular Terms, each denoting a single thing, the most obvious are Proper Names, such as Gibraltar or George Washington, which are merely marks of individual things or persons, and may form no part of the common language of a country.