The Byzantines established an enclave, bSpania/b, in the south, with the intention of reviving the Roman empire throughout Iberia. Eventually, however, Hispania was reunited under Visigothic rule. b...../b The Spanish financial authorities had not forgotten the country's own banking crisis of 1979 and an earlier real bestate/b precipitated banking crisis of 1993. Indeed, Spain's largest bank, Banco Santander, took part in the UK government's bail-out of part of the UK banking ...
