High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Rock of Gibraltar (sometimes by its original Latin name, Calpe, or from its later Arabic name: ??? ????, or Jabal Tariq ("Mount of Tariq"); in Spanish: Penon de Gibraltar) is a monolithic limestone promontory located in Gibraltar, off the southwestern tip of Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. It is 426 m (1,398 ft) high. The Rock is Crown property of the United Kingdom, and borders Spain. The sovereignty of Gibraltar was transferred from Spain to the Kingdom of Great Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 after the War of the Spanish Succession. In 2002, the United Kingdom and Spain were working on "ending the centuries-old dispute over the rock." Most of the Rock's upper area is covered by a nature reserve, which is home to around 250 Barbary macaques. These macaques, as well as a labyrinthine network of tunnels, attract a large number of tourists each year. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном...

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