Each of its 17 regions manages its own schools, hospitals, and other public services. With vibrant, historic cities and sunny beaches, Spain attracts more tourists than any other European country except France.
Services to the tourism industry drive Spain's economy, the eighth largest in the world. In Spain joined the European Community and further modernized its economy.
Important industries include mining, shipbuilding, and textiles. Settlers have migrated to Spain from Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean since the dawn of history. The Phoenicians, who came in the 8th century B. By the first century B. Spain became mostly Christian under the Romans, who were followed by the Vandals and the Visigoths, Germanic peoples from Europe. The Visigoth rulers fought among themselves, and in A. Islamic culture spread across Spain as Muslim rulers introduced new crops and irrigation systems, and trading increased.
Mathematics, medicine, and philosophy became more advanced, peaking in the tenth century—the golden age of Islamic rule in Spain. In Christian kingdoms in northern Spain conquered the Muslims and spread the Catholic religion.
Enriched by silver from the Americas, Spain grew more powerful. It later lost land and power in the Napoleonic Wars, which ended in More than , people died in the Spanish Civil War of the s. The victorious Gen.
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We wait here every day from 6 a. I had never worked in a field and I never thought I would have to work in a field in my life," Jallow says. The province of Almeria produces about 3. The crops grown in this giant "sea of plastic" — as the area is often referred to — are produced by a mix of small individual farmers and larger multinationals whose fruits and vegetables fill the produce sections of Europe's supermarkets in countries like Germany and the United Kingdom.
The region is also a gateway to Europe for many African migrants. According to local authorities, last year more than boats with a total of around 12, migrants arrived in Almeria, supplying further labor for the region's ,plus workforce. Read more: Refugees in Italy get their hands dirty with own farm. Many are exposed to pesticides in greenhouses. Before dying he had many symptoms, like vomiting," Garcia Cueva says.
He was young and had no health problems. Standing by the door of his makeshift home, year-old Ismail Ayaman from Morocco looks at the ruins of his former neighbors' houses. He lives in one of Almeria's many "chabolas" — slums — in the city of Nijar. In February, a fire from a gas canister used for cooking destroyed part of the slum, leaving more than workers homeless.
Like the hundreds of other migrants living there, he built his house from wood and old scraps of plastic used in the nearby greenhouses. Most houses don't have running water and are unsafely powered by loose gas canisters and electricity stolen from power lines.
The men smoke, and the electricity cables are hanging, which can cause fires. But we don't really have a solution because without those electricity cables we can't cook, we can't have light at night," Ayaman says.
Located just a few hundred meters from the greenhouses where migrants work, the "chabolas" are also a constant reminder of the migrants' shattered dreams. Read more: Illegal immigrants provide cheap labor in Portugal's agricultural sector.
I remained undocumented for 10 years because my boss didn't want to give me a work contract. During all this time, I couldn't go back to see my family in Morocco.
He and his colleagues patrol the region's greenhouses looking for illegal workers and their employers.
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