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Gibraltar is a British overseas territory, located on the southern tip of Spain, and was where the Moors first landed (its name may be derived from the Arabic phrase Gebal al-Tariq, Tariq's rock, after an early leader of the Muslim conquest of Iberia), dominated by the famed [
It probably had lions at some point.
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During [[World War II]], [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] tried to convince [[The Franco Regime|Franco]] to join the Axis forces, promising him Gibraltar as part of the deal. Franco however was so demanding (among other things he claimed ''all of French North Africa'' for Spain, as well as demands for material and military resources that Germany could never provide) that Hitler and all of the ambassadors sent to negotiate with Franco absolutely hated him, and soon refused to negotiate. Historical opinion [[Your Mileage May Vary|remains divided]] as to whether Franco simply overplayed his hand by bargaining for too much, or [[Fridge Brilliance|deliberately inflated his demands to avoid having to join the Axis]], which ultimately ended up preserving his regime.
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* In ''[[Das Boot]]'', when the German U-Boot is ordered to enter the Mediterranean from the Atlantic, the sailors are sure they are going to die, as the British used Gibraltar to close off access.
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