evidence: - Gibraltar is a British overseas territory sitting near the southwestern tip of Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. [...] - Spain does not acknowledge British sovereignty in Gibraltar. In addition to the economic and strategic benefits of the territory, Spain also points to the region’s historic ties with Spain. - Gibraltar was a part of the Kingdom of Castile, and later Spain, from 1492 until the Treaty of Utrecht in 1714. Prior to that, Gibraltar (and most of the rest of the Iberian Peninsula) was part of al-Andalus, or Moorish Spain. (The Moors were Muslim communities originally from North Africa.)