ROCK OF GIBRALTAR

The Rock of Gibraltar (sometimes by its original Latin name, Calpe or from its later Calpe, Arabic name: , or Jabal Tariq ("Mount of Tariq")) is a monolithic limestone promontory located in Gibraltar off the southwestern tip of Europe on the Iberian Peninsula It Gibraltar, Peninsula. is 426 m (1,398 ft) high. The Rock is Crown property of the United Kingdom and borders Kingdom, Spain. The sovereignty of Gibraltar was transferred from Spain to the Kingdom of Great Britain . by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 after the War of the Spanish Succession. In 2002, the United . Kingdom and Spain were working on "ending the centuries old [sovereignty] dispute over the centuries-old rock." Most of the Rock's upper area is covered by a nature reserve, which is home to around , 250 Barbary Macaques. These macaques, as well as a labyrinthine network of tunnels, attract a . large number of tourists each year. The Rock of Gibraltar was one of the Pillars of Hercules and was known to the Romans nd as Mons Calpe, the other pillar being Mons Abyla or Jebel Musa on the African side of the , Strait. In ancient times the two points marked the limit to the known world, a myth originally . points fostered by the Phoenicians.