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City: Los Angeles
Hometown: New York City
Country: Spain
Occupation: Film Maker
Schools: University of Southern California
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International rankings

Reporters Without Borders world-wide press freedom index 2002: Rank 40 out of 139 countries.^[52]

The Economist Intelligence Units worldwide quality-of-life index 2005: Rank 10 out of 111 countries (ahead of countries like the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and France)

Nation Master's list by economic importance: Rank 9 of 25 countries, only surpassed by G-8 members (except Russia) and Australia.

Nation Master's list by technological achievement: Rank 18 of 68 countries.

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International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database, September 2006
Rank by nominal GDP: 8 (2005); Rank by GDP per capita: 22 (2005); Rank by GDP at purchasing power parity per capita: 25 (2005).
Rinehart, Robert; Seeley, Jo Ann Browning (1998). A Country Study: Spain - Hispania. Library of Congress Country Series. Retrieved on 2007 March 8.
Payne, Stanley G. (1973). A History of Spain and Portugal; Ch. 1 Ancient Hispania. The Library of Iberian Resources Online. Retrieved on 2007 March 8.
The latifundia (sing., latifundium), large estates controlled by the aristocracy, were superimposed on the existing Iberian landholding system.
Rinehart, Robert; Seeley, Jo Ann Browning (1998). A Country Study: Spain - Hispania. Library of Congress Country Series. Retrieved on 2007 March 8.
The Roman provinces of Hispania included Provincia Hispania Ulterior Baetica (Hispania Baetica), whose capital was Corduba, presently Córdoba, Provincia Hispania Ulterior Lusitania (Hispania Lusitania), whose capital was Emerita Augusta (now Mérida), Provincia Hispania Citerior, whose capital was Tarraco (Tarragona), Provincia Hispania Nova, whose capital was Tingis (Tánger in present Morocco), Provincia Hispania Nova Citerior and Asturiae-Calleciae (these latter two provinces were created and then dissolved in the third century CE).
The poets Martial, Quintilian and Lucan were also born in Hispania.
Rinehart, Robert; Seeley, Jo Ann Browning (1998). A Country Study: Spain - Hispania. Library of Congress Country Series. Retrieved on 2007 March 8.
Payne, Stanley G. (1973). A History of Spain and Portugal; Ch. 1 Ancient Hispania. The Library of Iberian Resources Online. Retrieved on 2007 March 8.
Payne, Stanley G. (1973). A History of Spain and Portugal; Ch. 1 Ancient Hispania. The Library of Iberian Resources Online. Retrieved on 2007 March 8.
This led to the establishment of the Swebian Kingdom in Gallaecia, in the northwest, and the Visigothic Kingdom elsewhere.
Rinehart, Robert; Seeley, Jo Ann Browning (1998). A Country Study: Spain - Hispania. Library of Congress Country Series. Retrieved on 2007 March 8.
The Moorish armies continued northwards until they were defeated in central France at the Battle of Tours in 732.
Rinehart, Robert; Seeley, Jo Ann Browning (1998). A Country Study: Spain - Al Andalus. Library of Congress Country Series. Retrieved on 2007 March 9.
Payne, Stanley G. (1973). A History of Spain and Portugal; Ch. 2 Al-Andalus. The Library of Iberian Resources Online. Retrieved on 2007 March 9.
The Berbers soon gave up attempting to settle the harsh lands in the north of the Meseta Central handed to them by the Arab rulers.
Payne, Stanley G. (1973). A History of Spain and Portugal; Ch. 2 Al-Andalus. The Library of Iberian Resources Online. Retrieved on 2007 March 9.
It was not until the 12th century that western medieval Christendom began reaching comparable levels of sophistication, and this was due in no small part to the stimulus coming from Muslim Spain.
Payne, Stanley G. (1973). A History of Spain and Portugal; Ch. 2 Al-Andalus. The Library of Iberian Resources Online. Retrieved on 2007 March 9.
Payne, Stanley G. (1973). A History of Spain and Portugal; Ch. 2 Al-Andalus. The Library of Iberian Resources Online. Retrieved on 2007 March 9.
Rinehart, Robert; Seeley, Jo Ann Browning (1998). A Country Study: Spain - Castile and Aragon. Library of Congress Country Series. Retrieved on 2007 March 9.
Rinehart, Robert; Seeley, Jo Ann Browning (1998). A Country Study: Spain - Castile and Aragon. Library of Congress Country Series. Retrieved on 2007 March 11.
As the Reconquista advanced south, mosques and synagogues were converted into churches, and the Muslim population either fled or was required to convert to Catholicism.
Payne, Stanley G. (1973). A History of Spain and Portugal; Ch. 4 Castile-León in the Era of the Great Reconquest. The Library of Iberian Resources Online. Retrieved on 2007 March 11.
Payne, Stanley G. (1973). A History of Spain and Portugal; Ch. 5 The Rise of Aragón-Catalonia. The Library of Iberian Resources Online. Retrieved on 2007 March 11.
The Treaty of Granada (see The Treaty of Granada, 1492) guaranteed religious tolerance toward Muslims.
Muslims were expelled in a lengthier process beginning in 1502, and ending as late as 1609-1614.
Rinehart, Robert; Seeley, Jo Ann Browning (1998). A Country Study: Spain - The Golden Age. Library of Congress Country Series. Retrieved on 2007 March 11.
Rinehart, Robert; Seeley, Jo Ann Browning (1998). A Country Study: Spain - The Golden Age. Library of Congress Country Series. Retrieved on 2007 March 11.
Payne, Stanley G. (1973). A History of Spain and Portugal; Ch. 13 The Spanish Empire. The Library of Iberian Resources Online. Retrieved on 2007 March 12.
Thomas, Hugh (2003). Rivers of gold: the rise of the Spanish Empire. London: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, passim.
Payne, Stanley G. (1973). A History of Spain and Portugal; Ch. 14 Spanish Society and Economics in the Imperial Age. The Library of Iberian Resources Online. Retrieved on 2007 March 12.
Rinehart, Robert; Seeley, Jo Ann Browning (1998). A Country Study: Spain - Spain in Decline. Library of Congress Country Series. Retrieved on 2007 March 12.
Rinehart, Robert; Seeley, Jo Ann Browning (1998). A Country Study: Spain - Bourbon Spain. Library of Congress Country Series. Retrieved on 2007 March 12.
Gascoigne, Bamber (1998). History of Spain: Bourbon dynasty: from AD 1700. Library of Congress Country Series. Retrieved on 2007 March 12.
Over a hundred thousand highly motivated Spanish Civil War veterans were to give both sides the benefit of their experience throughout the Second World War in Europe, the Eastern Front and North Africa. Many in the French Resistance and French Foreign Legion were Spanish as was the 9th Armoured Company that spearheaded Général Leclerc's 2nd Armoured Division's liberation of Paris. On the other side, some 47,000 Spaniards fought against the Soviet Union in the Wehrmacht's División Azul (Blue Division).
OECD figures
Economic statistics
Official report on Spanish recent Macroeconomics, including tables and graphics
"Global Guru" analysis
Bank of Spain economic report.
"Global Guru" analysis
Bank of Spain Economic Bulletin 07/2005
Instituto Nacional de Estadística
Eurostat - Population in Europe in 2005
2006 European Union net immigration balance; retrieved on April 9th
Ethnologue report of Spain
Immigration statistics.
Centre of Sociological Investigations, questions 32 and 32a
Centre of Sociological Investigations
Reporters Without Borders points out problems with free press in Spain due to ETA's threats and violence, 2006