Area Handbook for Spain
- ISBN-10
- 0160015677
- ISBN-13
- 9780160015670
- Category
- History / Europe / Spain
- Pages
- 424
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1976
- Publisher
- U.S. Government Printing Office
- Author
- Eugene K. Keefe
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