🎧 The History of the Pyrenees with Matthew Carr
🎧 Dan Snow's History Hit • 25m
Dan talks to Matthew Carr about the history of the Pyrenees, a mountainous frontier that has seen conflict and co-operation from Roman times until the present day.
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