Когда прорвало Гибралтар

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Historically, Catalan Bay had been populated by Genoese fishermen who were part of a much larger settlement pattern along the eastern coast of The Rock during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the eighteenth century Genoese was so widely spoken in Gibraltar that government notices were also published in this language (alongside English and Spanish). Genoese was spoken in La Caleta well into the nineteenth century, dying out in the early decades of the twentieth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Bay

Потом английские суда поднимали белый флаг с красным крестом, чтобы извлечь определённую выгоду: когда-то Крест был символом Генуи, и Англия таким образом подпадала под протекторат мощного флота.
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B3_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B8

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