During the Miocene, geological activity in Western Europe blocked off what would be known as the Straits of Gibraltar, sealing off the Mediterranean, which dried up, leaving a salty plain. Towards the end of the Miocene, the Atlantic broke through and refilled the basin in a cataclysmic flood. (PROSE: Prehistory Repeating Itself [+]Loading...["Prehistory Repeating Itself (feature)"])
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The Strait of Gibraltar separates Spain and Gibraltar from Morocco. The threat of the Spanish Inquisition drove many Jews across it from Spain in the 15th and 16th centuries. Earlier still, it was a major part of trading routes with Carthage, which, in the DWU, Ian Chesterton helped found.