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2/15/2025, 6:54 AM Beautiful Victory
3/21/2024, 11:21 PM anonymous

Name Gibraltar
Type Political Subdivision & Settlement
Scripts Гибралтар(Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian Cyrillic, Russian, Serbian, Tajik, Uzbek) גיברלטר(Hebrew)
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Meaning & History

Derived from Arabic جبل طارق (jabal tariq) meaning "mountain of Tariq", so named for 7th-century Umayyad commander Tariq bin Ziyad, who led the Muslim conquest of Hispania. This is the name of a British overseas territory and city at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.
Added 3/21/2024 by anonymous