Balearic Islands as tourist pearl of Spain.

So here we have the Spanish pesetas, nominal - 5. The year of issue of this coin is 1997, mint: Madrid, Spain. Total circulation – 709.006.000.

Balearic Islands, government encompasses the insular councils of Majorca, Minorca, and Ibiza-Formentera. Area 1,927 square miles (4,992 square km). Population (2007 est.) 1,030,650. Archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea and an autonomous community of Spain coextensive with the Spanish province of the same name.

The archipelago lies 50 to 190 miles (80 to 300 km) east of the Spanish mainland. There are two groups of islands. The eastern and larger group forms the Balearics proper and includes the principal islands of Majorca (Mallorca) and Minorca (Menorca) and the small island of Cabrera. The western group is known as the Pitiusas and includes the islands of Ibiza (Eivissa) and Formentera.

The Balearics were conquered by the Vandals in 526 and fell to the Byzantines in 534. The Muslim occupation of the islands was complete by 903. James I of Aragon conquered the islands of Majorca and Ibiza between 1229 and 1235, and Minorca fell to his descendant, Alfonso III, in 1287.

The Balearics were established as an autonomous kingdom in 1298 and rejoined Aragon in 1349. The British captured Maó in 1708, and the Treaties of Utrecht in 1713 ceded Minorca to the British, who occupied it until 1802. The Balearics were established as a Spanish province in 1833. A regionalist movement emerged in the late 19th century but failed to consolidate. A statute of autonomy was proposed in 1931 but not enacted until 1983.