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Philip II of ___MASK21___ ( ___MASK15___ May 1527  ___MASK99___ September 1598 ), called " the Prudent " ( el Prudente ), was King of ___MASK21___ ( 1556  98 ), King of Portugal ( 1581  98 , as " Philip I ", " Filipe I "), King of Naples and Sicily ( both from 1554 ), and during his marriage to Queen Mary I ( 1554  58 ) " jure uxoris " King of England and ___MASK88___ . He was also Duke of Milan . From 1555 , he was lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands . ___MASK46___ is a British Overseas Territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula . It has an area of and shares its northern border with Spain . The Rock of ___MASK46___ is the major landmark of the region . At its foot is a densely populated city area , home to over 30 , 000 Gibraltarians and other nationalities . Ceuta ( assimilated pronunciation , also Arabic :  , " Sabtah ") is an Spanish autonomous city located on the north coast of Africa , sharing a western border with ___MASK5___ . Separated from the Iberian peninsula by the Strait of ___MASK46___ , Ceuta lies along the boundary between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean . Ceuta , along with the Spanish exclave Melilla , is one of nine populated Spanish territories in Africa and one of two populated territories on mainland Africa . It was part of Cádiz province until 14 March 1995 when the city ' s Statute of Autonomy was passed . San Lorenzo de El Escorial , also known as El Escorial de Arriba is a town and municipality in the Community of ___MASK68___ , Spain , located to the northwest of the region in the southeastern side of the Sierra de Guadarrama , at the foot of Mount Abantos and Las Machotas , from ___MASK68___ . It is head of the same name judicial party . The settlement is popularly called El Escorial de Arriba , to differentiate it from the neighbouring village of El Escorial , also known as El Escorial de Abajo . The Alboran Sea is the westernmost portion of the Mediterranean Sea , lying between the Iberian Peninsula and the north of Africa . The Strait of ___MASK46___ , which lies at the west end of the Alboran Sea , connects the Mediterranean with the Atlantic Ocean . ___MASK21___ , officially the Kingdom of ___MASK21___ , is a sovereign state largely located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe , with two large archipelagos , the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the ___MASK74___ off the North African Atlantic coast , two cities Ceuta and Melilla in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran Sea near the Moroccan coast . Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with ___MASK46___ ; to the north and northeast by France , Andorra , and the Bay of Biscay ; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean . It is the only European country to have a border with an African country ( Morocco ) and its African territory accounts for nearly ___MASK63___ % of its population , mostly in the ___MASK74___ but also in Ceuta and Melilla . Africa is the world ' s second - largest and second - most - populous continent . At about ___MASK52___ . 3 million km² ( ___MASK3___ . 7 million square miles ) including adjacent islands , it covers 6 % of Earth ' s total surface area and 20 . 4 % of its total land area . With 1 . 1 billion people as of 2013 , it accounts for about 15 % of the world ' s human population . The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north , both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast , the Indian Ocean to the southeast , and the Atlantic Ocean to the west . The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos . It contains 54 fully recognized sovereign states ( countries ), nine territories and two " de facto " independent states with limited or no recognition . The Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial , commonly known as El Escorial , is a historical residence of the King of ___MASK21___ , in the town of San Lorenzo de El Escorial , about northwest of the capital , ___MASK68___ , in ___MASK21___ . It is one of the Spanish royal sites and functions as a monastery , basilica , royal palace , pantheon , library , museum , university and hospital . It is situated up the valley ( road distance ) from the town of El Escorial . ___MASK97___ , officially the French Republic , is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . The European , or metropolitan , area of ___MASK97___ extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea , and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean . Overseas ___MASK97___ include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . ___MASK97___ spans and had a total population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017 . It is a unitary semi - presidential republic with the capital in ___MASK84___ , the country ' s largest city and main cultural and commercial centre . Other major urban centres include ___MASK43___ , Lyon , Lille , Nice , Toulouse and Bordeaux . The Bay of Biscay ( Basque : " Bizkaiko Golkoa ," ) is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea . It lies along the western coast of ___MASK97___ from Brest south to the Spanish border , and the northern coast of Spain west to Cape Ortegal . The Netherlands is the main constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands . It is a densely populated country located in Western Europe with three island territories in the Caribbean . The European part of the Netherlands borders ___MASK27___ to the east , Belgium to the south , and the North Sea to the northwest , sharing maritime borders with Belgium , the ___MASK75___ , and ___MASK27___ . The largest cities in the Netherlands are ___MASK25___ , Rotterdam , The Hague and Utrecht . ___MASK25___ is the country ' s capital , while The Hague holds the Dutch seat of government and parliament . The name " Holland " is used to refer informally to the whole of the country of the Netherlands . ___MASK5___ (', lit . " The West "; '), officially known as the Kingdom of ___MASK5___ (', lit . " The Western Kingdom "; '), is a sovereign country located in the Maghreb region of North Africa . Geographically , ___MASK5___ is characterized by a rugged mountainous interior , large tracts of desert , and a lengthy coastline along the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea . The Balearic Islands are an archipelago of ___MASK21___ in the western Mediterranean Sea , near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula . Europe is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . Europe is bordered by the ___MASK58___ Ocean to the north , the Atlantic Ocean to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the east and southeast , Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the Turkish Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of Europe  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to Europe also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current overland boundaries . The Seventeen Provinces was a term applied to the Imperial states of the Habsburg Netherlands in the 15th and 16th century . They roughly covered the Low Countries , i . e . the current Netherlands , Belgium , and ___MASK29___ , plus most of the modern French department of Nord including Artois , French Flanders , and French Hainaut . Also enclosed in this area were semi - independent fiefdoms , mainly ecclesiastical ones , such as Liège , Cambrai and Stavelot - Malmedy . Jason Isaacs ( born ___MASK1___ June 1963 ) is an English actor . He is known for playing Lucius Malfoy in the " Harry Potter " films , Colonel William Tavington in " The Patriot ", and criminal Michael Caffee in the American television series " Brotherhood ". The Iberian Peninsula , also known as Iberia , is located in the southwest corner of Europe . The peninsula is principally divided between ___MASK39___ and Spain , comprising most of their territory . It also includes Andorra and a small part of France along the peninsula ' s northeastern edge , as well as ___MASK46___ on its south coast , a small peninsula which forms an overseas territory of the United Kingdom . With an area of approximately , it is the second largest European peninsula , after the Scandinavian . ___MASK39___ ( Portuguese : ), officially the Portuguese Republic ( Portuguese : ), is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe . It is the westernmost country of mainland Europe . To the west and south it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east and north by Spain . The ___MASK39___  Spain border is long and considered the longest uninterrupted border within the European Union . The republic also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira , both autonomous regions with their own regional governments . Jürgen Prochnow (; born ___MASK40___ June 1941 ) is a German - born American actor . His best - known roles internationally have been as the good - hearted and sympathetic U - Boat captain in " Das Boot " ( 1981 ), Duke Leto Atreides in " Dune " ( 1984 ), the minor but important role of Kazakh dictator General Ivan Radek in " Air Force One " ( 1997 ), and the antagonist Maxwell Dent in " ___MASK36___ Cop II " ( 1987 ). ___MASK91___ , officially the Principality of ___MASK91___ , also called the Principality of the Valleys of ___MASK91___ , is a sovereign landlocked microstate in Southwestern Europe , located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France . Created under a charter in 988 , the present principality was formed in 1278 . It is known as a principality as it is a monarchy headed by two Co - Princes the Roman Catholic Bishop of Urgell in Spain , and the President of France . Julia Karin Ormond ( born ___MASK60___ January 1965 ) is an English actress . She rose to prominence appearing in such films as " The Baby of Mâcon " ( 1993 ), " Legends of the Fall " ( 1994 ), " First Knight " ( 1995 ), " Sabrina " ( 1995 ), " Smilla ' s Sense of Snow " ( 1997 ) and " The Barber of Siberia " ( 1998 ). She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in the HBO film " Temple Grandin " ( 2010 ). Legends of the Fall is a 1994 American epic drama film directed by Edward Zwick and starring Brad Pitt , Anthony Hopkins , Aidan Quinn , Julia Ormond and Henry Thomas . Based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison , the film is about three brothers and their father living in the wilderness and plains of ___MASK45___ in the early 20th century and how their lives are affected by nature , history , war and love . The film ' s time frame spans from World War I through the Prohibition era , ending with a brief scene set in 1963 . The film was nominated for three Academy Awards and won for Best Cinematography ( John Toll ). Both the film and book contain occasional Cornish language terms , the Ludlows being a Cornish emigrant family . An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad ___MASK17___ of activities related to creating art , practicing the arts or demonstrating an art . The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only . The term is often used in the entertainment business , especially in a business context , for musicians and other performers ( less often for actors ). " Artiste " ( the French for artist ) is a variant used in English only in this context . Use of the term to describe writers , for example , is valid , but less common , and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism . The ___MASK74___ , also known as the Canaries , are an archipelago and autonomous community of Spain located on the Atlantic Ocean , west of ___MASK5___ . The Canaries are among the outermost regions ( OMR ) of the European Union proper . It is also one of the eight regions with special consideration of historical nationality recognized as such by the Spanish Government . The Barber of Siberia ( translit . Sibirskiy tsiryulnik ) is a 1998 Russian film that re - united the Academy Award - winning team of director Nikita Mikhalkov and Michel Seydoux . It was screened out of competition at the 1999 ___MASK28___ Film Festival . The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee . U - boat is the anglicised version of the German word U - Boot , a shortening of Unterseeboot , literally " undersea boat ". While the German term refers to any submarine , the English one ( in common with several other languages ) refers specifically to military submarines operated by ___MASK27___ , particularly in the First and Second World Wars . Although at times they were efficient fleet weapons against enemy naval warships , they were most effectively used in an economic warfare role ( commerce raiding ), enforcing a naval blockade against enemy shipping . The primary targets of the U - boat campaigns in both wars were the merchant convoys bringing supplies from ___MASK65___ , the British Empire , and the United States to the ___MASK75___ and ( during the Second World War ) to the Soviet Union and the Allied territories in the Mediterranean . La Conjura de El Escorial ( The Escorial Conspiracy ) is a 2008 Spanish historical drama film directed by Antonio del Real and starring Jason Isaacs , Julia Ormond , Jordi Mollà , Pilar Bastardés and Jürgen Prochnow . It is set in the reign of Philip II of ___MASK21___ . On the night of Easter Monday March 31 , 1578 , assassins murdered the treasury secretary Juan de Escobedo in cold blood in the royal palace of El Escorial ) . There ensues a series of investigations that are aimed at people close to the Court of Philip II . This fictional story is not to be confused with The El Escorial Conspiracy led by Crown Prince Ferdinand which occurred in 1807 during the reign of Ferdinand ' s father Charles IV of ___MASK21___ . Jordi Mollà i Perales ( born 1 July 1968 ) is a Spanish actor , director , filmmaker , writer , and artist . Pilar Bastardés is a Spanish actress . She has appeared largely in Spanish theatre and television productions . In 2008 she appeared in Antonio del Real ' s historical film La Conjura de El Escorial set during the reign of King Philip II of ___MASK21___ . The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately ___MASK79___ percent of the Earth ' s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". Melilla ( " Maliliyyah ") is a Spanish autonomous city located on the north coast of Africa , sharing a border with ___MASK5___ with an area of . Melilla , along with Ceuta , is one of two permanently inhabited Spanish cities in mainland Africa . It was part of Málaga province until 14 March 1995 when the city ' s Statute of Autonomy was passed . North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of Africa . The United Nations definition of " North Africa " includes seven countries and territories ; Algeria , ___MASK54___ , Libya , Mauritania , Morocco , Sudan , ___MASK44___ , and Western Sahara . The countries of Algeria , Morocco , ___MASK44___ , and Libya are often collectively referred to as the Maghreb , which is the Arabic word for " sunset ". ___MASK54___ lies to the northeast and encompasses part of West Asia , while Sudan is situated on the edge of the Sahel , to the south of ___MASK54___ . ___MASK36___ Cop II is a 1987 American action comedy film directed by Tony Scott , written by Larry Ferguson and Warren Skaaren and starring Eddie Murphy . It is the sequel to the 1984 film " ___MASK36___ Cop " and the second installment in the " ___MASK36___ Cop " series . Murphy returns as Detroit police detective Axel Foley , who reunites with ___MASK36___ detectives Billy Rosewood ( Judge Reinhold ) and John Taggart ( John Ashton ) to stop a robbery / gun - running gang after Captain Andrew Bogomil ( Ronny Cox ) is shot and seriously wounded . Jure uxoris is a Latin term that means " by right of ( his ) wife ". " Jure " is the ablative case of " jus ", meaning a legal right . It is most commonly used to refer to a title of nobility held by a man because his wife holds it " suo jure " (" in her own right "). Similarly , the husband of an heiress could become the legal possessor of her lands " jure uxoris ", " by right of [ his ] wife ", as in ___MASK32___ where , until the Married Women ' s Property Act 1882 , married women were legally incapable of owning real estate . " Jure uxoris " monarchs are not to be confused with kings consort , who were merely consorts of their wives , not co - rulers .