Why is Andorra a Country? - History of Andorra in 10 Minutes

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Why is Andorra a Country? - History of Andorra in 10 Minutes

If you’ve never seen Andorra on a map, that’s probably because it’s not very easy to see. And if you have, you may be wondering, why is it even a country? A nation so small that it gets lost from sight between the border of Spain and France ever so easily. So why does it exist?


Even more curious than the fact that tiny Andorra is utterly and overwhelmingly landlocked between Spain and France, it also is actually a co-principality between the two. Both neighbors share a certain level of authority over Andorra still today, and they have for many years.

The origins of the sovereign state, at least according to Andorra itself, can be traced all the way back to the time of Charlemagne. The story goes that when the Frankish king set up a series of buffer states between Christian France and Muslim-controlled al-Andalus, Andorra was one of the states to serve as part of this Marca Hispanica buffer, and is the only remaining state of the region as well.

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Andorra: Nova aproximació a la història d'Andorra (Catalan Edition)
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