Madrid
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Mardrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. At present, the population of the entirety of Madrid, central and suburbs, is approximately 5.84 million, making it the third-most populous municipality in the European Union. Madrid is known for preserving much of its historical look and feel, while boasting a modern infrastructure.
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[edit] Madrid in Ruled Britannia
Madrid became the de facto capital of the Kingdom of Spain when Philip II (1527-1598) moved his court to Madrid in 1561. He died in Madrid in 1598.
Many of the soldiers who occupied England from 1588-98 hailed from Madrid, including Lope de Vega.
[edit] Madrid in The Man With the Iron Heart
In 1947, German Freedom Front agents hijacked a TWA flight in Amsterdam and redirected it to Madrid. The plane then sat on the runway, as the GFF men demanded that all of their comrades be released from American custody. As Spain's ruler, Francisco Franco had been supported by Nazi Germany, Spanish authorities didn't lift a finger.
The group eventually set fire to the plane when their demands weren't met, and surrendered to Spanish custody. The U.S., Britain and France all demanded that they be turned over.
[edit] Madrid in Southern Victory
Madrid was taken by the Monarchists during the Spanish Civil War in the mid 1930s. Nationalists, with the help of British forces, took it back. Winston Churchill used the event as a propaganda tool to justify conscription in Britain.
[edit] Madrid in In High Places
Madrid in the alternate where 80% of Europe had died of the Black Plague was a large, prosperous pre-industrial Muslim city of half a million people. Annette Klein felt the city resembled the mission architecture of her home timeline's California. Annette and Jacques were sold into slavery in that timeline's Madrid and transported to another Madrid in which an illegal slave ring had conquered a territory belonging to both descendants of the Basques and Carthaginians. Annette was finally able to escape that alternate and arrive in the Madrid of her own timeline, a prosperous and bustling city of the European Union.
