South-eastern Spain is still battling with the aftermath of one of the deadliest floodings to hit the country in its modern history. At least 219 people were killed in the devastating floods and ...

Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country. By Michael Reid. Yale University Press; 320 pages; $30 and £18.99 In so doing, he tackles a host of issues, ranging from immigration ...

VALENCIA, Spain – More than 215 people have died in Spain as a result of unprecedented floods that have ravaged the region, marking the deadliest weather disaster in the country's modern history.

This important work is not a systematic history of modern Spain, but a series of related chapters containing a wealth of material on the country's political and economic evolution since the Napoleonic ...

Modern Spain has an uneasy relationship with its history because of chapters such as the Inquisition and the colonization of the Americas, said Jesús Carrobles, head of Toledo’s Royal Academy ...

after torrential rain fueled the worst natural disaster in the country’s modern history. Stunning images emerged from Valencia, Spain’s third most populous city, showing dozens of cars wedged ...

The deadliest flash floods in Spain's modern history have killed at least 214 people and dozens were still unaccounted for, four days after torrential rains swept the eastern region of Valencia ...

It is possibly Spain's worst in its modern history as the number of victims surpassed 87 people killed in a 1996 flood near the town of Biescas in the Pyrenees mountains. In 1957, dozens of people ...