The history of Gibraltar, a small peninsula on the southern Iberian coast near the entrance of the Mediterranean Sea, spans over 2,900 years. The peninsula has evolved from a place of reverence in ancient times into "one of the most densely fortified and fought-over places in Europe", as one historian has put it. Gibraltar's location has given it an outsized significance in the history of Europe and its fortified town, established in the Middle Ages, has hosted garrisons that sustained numerous sieges and battles over the centuries.
North View of Gibraltar from Spanish Lines by John Mace (1782)
Annotated satellite view of the Strait of Gibraltar
"Gibraltar Woman" – a Neanderthal who lived in Gibraltar some 50,000 years ago
The 14th-century Tower of Homage, the largest surviving fragment of Gibraltar's Moorish Castle
Gibraltarians are an ethnic group native to Gibraltar, a British overseas territory located near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.
Gibraltarians, 1856
Kaiane Aldorino
Gustavo Bacarisas
Adolfo Canepa