Gibraltarians are a racial and cultural fusion of the many immigrants who came to the Rock of Gibraltar over three hundred years. They are the descendants of economic migrants who came to Gibraltar following its capture by Britain in 1704. All but 70 of the existing population of 4,000 fled to the surrounding Campo de Gibraltar. The few Spaniards who remained left in 1727 when Gibraltar was subjected to its second Spanish siege.
Most Gibraltarian surnames are typically of Mediterranean extraction. The exact breakdown is as follows:
Genoese and Catalans (who arrived in the fleet with Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, possibly some two hundred in all), became the core of Gibraltar's first civilian population under Habsburg Gibraltar. Sephardic Jews from Tetouan in Morocco, who had previously been suppliers to the English territory of Tangier, started supplying fresh produce to Gibraltar from 1704.
Officials said Friday that Italian and French archaeologists have discovered four skeletons and gold coins in the ruins of an ancient shop on the outskirts of Pompeii, The Associated Press reported.The skeletons are those of young people, including an adolescent girl, who perished in the back of the shop near the ancient Roman town when Mount......
Our Freedom to Live,” which he cites statistics about gun violence in America and arguing despite grim statistics, the situation is not hopeless, the report said ... Allow me to be optimistic ... Just look at the data. There is a staggering split in U.S ... "We ware [sic] at war here," he wrote, citing statistics about gun violence in America revealing more people die of violent gun-related deaths in Chicago than American soldiers in Afghanistan....
Over 17 million people voted to leave (17,410,742), while just over 16 million (16,141,241) voted to leave ... More than 30 million people voted in the referendum and the turnout of 71.8 per cent was the highest for any UK-wide vote since 1992 ... And while the overall result remains to be declared, the vote here makes clear that the people of Scotland see their future as part of the European Union,” she said....
Until the Assembly ruled otherwise, the sole representative of the Saharawipeople was the POLISARIO Front... If the Minister cared for the latter, he would heed the results of two referenda in which the Gibraltarianpeople had overwhelmingly rejected the notion of joint sovereignty with Spain, with 99 per cent of the electorate voting against it on both occasions....
Until the Assembly ruled otherwise, the sole representative of the Saharawipeople was the POLISARIO Front... If the Minister cared for the latter, he would heed the results of two referenda in which the Gibraltarianpeople had overwhelmingly rejected the notion of joint sovereignty with Spain, with 99 per cent of the electorate voting against it on both occasions....
Fabian Picado, Gibraltar's Chief Minister, said the Territory remained on the United Nations list due only to Spain's insistence that the principle of self-determination did not apply to the people of Gibraltar ... There was also the matter of the closing of the economic frontier, which had led to suffering among the Gibraltarianpeople....
Recently, two Gibraltarian fishing boats were out at sea catching and then tagging tuna for scientific research ...Spain has a long history of harassment against Gibraltarians, but the situation has gotten worse in the past few years ... The British government says it us up to the Gibraltarianpeople to decide how and by whom they wish to owe their allegiance....