A countrywide power outage impacted Spain—as well as swaths of Portugal and smaller portions of France—Monday afternoon, affecting essential services and wreaking chaos across the Iberian Peninsula.

Short documentary looking at five important battles in the history of medieval Spain. The Almoravids, Alfonso the Battler, ...

Redrawing the MapUniting Castile and Aragon created a superstate that included the wealthy Mediterranean seaboard in the east and had western access to the Atlantic, a crucial position during the ...

A chronology of key events: 1492 - The Christian Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon conquer the Emirate of Granada, ending nearly 800 years of Muslim rule in the south and founding modern Spain as a ...

Queen Isabella of Castille and King Ferdinand II of Aragon receive Christopher Columbus in April 1492 at the Spanish royal court. Isabella was one of a group of medieval queens who took active ...

When the itinerant Charles V was struggling to establish his rule over the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon, he sent the Spanish court Titian’s copy of his portrait, originally painted by Jakob ...

1501 - Isabella I, queen of Castile and Aragon, annexes Gibraltar to Spain. 1704 - The English capture Gibraltar during War of Spanish Succession. 1713 - Spain cedes Gibraltar to Britain under the ...

A chronology of key events: 1492 - The Christian Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon conquer the Emirate of Granada, ending nearly 800 years of Muslim rule in the south and founding modern Spain as a ...

1501 - Isabella I, queen of Castile and Aragon, annexes Gibraltar to Spain. 1704 - The English capture Gibraltar during War of Spanish Succession. 1713 - Spain cedes Gibraltar to Britain under the ...