Gibraltar cultural definition

A colony of Britain on the southern coast of Spain.

• Located on the Rock of Gibraltar, a huge limestone mass.
• Spain has protested British control of Gibraltar, but the dispute has remained unsettled for years.
• Location of an important military base; strategically significant because it can be used to keep ships from entering or leaving the Mediterranean Sea.
• Its seeming impregnability as a fortress during several wars led to the saying: “solid as the Rock of Gibraltar.”