Located on a peninsula off of southern Spain, best known for the massive rock which dominates its landscape,

Gibraltar is one of the most strategic locations in the world.

It has been fought over for millennia, been the focus of many sieges, and is still the subject of diplomatic disputes in the 21st century.

It also has the only population of wild monkeys in Europe.

Learn more about Gibraltar, the only part of the United Kingdom and continental Europe

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by audible.com.

My audiobook recommendation today is Gibraltar,

The Greatest Siege in British History

by Leslie and Roy Atkins.

For more than three and a half years from 1779 to 1783,

the Tiny Territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded on land and at sea

by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France.

It became the longest siege in British history and the

obsession with saving Gibraltar was blamed for the loss of the American colonies in the

War of Independence. This is military and social history at its best a story of soldiers, sailors and civilians with royalty and rank and file workmen and engineers

Priests, Prisoner of Wars, spies and surgeons all caught up in a struggle for a fortress located

on little more than two square miles of awe-inspiring rock.

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Gibraltar has the distinction of being one of the most strategic places on Earth.

Located near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula,

it's situated near the eponymous Strait of Gibraltar,

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