Gibraltar
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Gibraltar is a limestone promontory located off the southern tip of Spain It is 1,396 feet high. The sovereignty of Gibraltar was transferred to the Great Britain together with Minorca by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 after the War of the Spanish Succession. The Rock of Gibraltar was known in classical times as one of the Pillars of Hercules, the other pillar being Jebel Musa on the African side of the Strait of Gibraltar. Its name is derived from the Arabic Jebel al Tariq, or Mount of Tariq, the Moorish invader of Spain in 711 AD.
