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Madrid´s appearance begins in the ninth century, when Cordoban emir Abderraman II built a fortress here to defend the local population against attacks from Castile and Leon. But Madrid really started on the road to the city we know today when Charles´son, Phillip II, made it the capital of Spain in 1561.
Madrid´s location smack in the middle of the Iberian peninsula certainly played a part in that decision. Perhaps equally important was the lack of non-royal power centers in Madrid -- the Spanish church was headquartered safely down the road in the former capital Toledo, and the city had not built up a class of important local merchants or nobles the way more established cities such as Valladolid or Burgos had.
The city grew rapidly as the seat of government. With no navigable rivers leading to it, and with long and dusty roads between it and other population centers in Spain, the city focused very much on the crown and the court. Not only Spain, but a world empire covering most of the Americans and stretching across broad swaths of the Pacific was administered from this dusty town high on the Castilian plain.
Madrid´s location smack in the middle of the Iberian peninsula certainly played a part in that decision. Perhaps equally important was the lack of non-royal power centers in Madrid -- the Spanish church was headquartered safely down the road in the former capital Toledo, and the city had not built up a class of important local merchants or nobles the way more established cities such as Valladolid or Burgos had.
The city grew rapidly as the seat of government. With no navigable rivers leading to it, and with long and dusty roads between it and other population centers in Spain, the city focused very much on the crown and the court. Not only Spain, but a world empire covering most of the Americans and stretching across broad swaths of the Pacific was administered from this dusty town high on the Castilian plain.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Basque rebels ETA have decided to no longer carry out armed attacks, Basque-language newspaper Gara said on its website on Sunday.
AFP - Retail sales across the 16 nations sharing the euro rose by a modest 0.1 percent in July, after a 0.2 percent increase in June, with drops in Germany and Spain, European Union data showed on Friday.
AFP - Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has hit out at his club for not backing him in the transfer market and leaving him short up front.
AFP - English Premier League club Tottenham were allowed to sign Rafael van der Vaart from Real Madrid on Thursday after their last-ditch move for the Dutch playmaker on deadline day.
AFP - English Premier League club Tottenham were still awaiting clearance Wedensday on the last-gasp, cut-price transfer of Dutch playmaker Rafael van der Vaart from Real Madrid.
AFP - Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Wednesday his nation needed to accept temporary pain for a better economic future, but said Spanish workers were unwilling to be flexible.
MADRID (Reuters) - Being chosen to host the 2018 World Cup would be a fitting end to a year in which Spain were crowned world champions, Spanish sports minister Jaime Lissavetzky said on Tuesday.
AFP - Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa will release in November a book about famed Irish patriot Roger Casement, who exposed abuses in the former Congo, publishing house Alfaguara said Tuesday.
Reuters - Mel Gibson may be suffering one of the worst media scandals of his career, but a new poll shows it is having a relatively small impact on the movie star's box office appeal.
AP - Real Madrid winger Cristiano Ronaldo will be out three weeks after injuring his ankle in his team's Spanish league opener.
MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish government has asked Morocco to provide an explanation of the circumstances which led to the arrest Sunday of 11 activists in Western Sahara, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Monday.
MADRID (Reuters) - Moroccan police have arrested 11 Spanish activists in Western Sahara who were demonstrating for independence for the disputed territory, the Spanish Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
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