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 * ...that, besides Spanish, other languages such as Catalan, Basque or Galician are spoken in Spain?
 * ...that the modern name Spain comes from Hispania, the name given by the Romans to the whole of the Iberian Peninsula?
 * ...that, in the 8th century, nearly all of the Iberian Peninsula was conquered (711-718) by Muslim armies of Moor origin from North Africa?