Hispanism theater in the Netherlands and the Generation of '98, as well as the Sephardic refugee writers in the Netherlands. Cees Nooteboom has written books about travel to Spain, including "Roads to Santiago". produced a Dutch translation of "Don Quixote" in 1994, and Hispanism continues to be promoted by Dutch writers such as Rik Zaal ("Alles over Spanje"), Gerrit Jan Zwier, Arjen Duinker, Jean Pierre Rawie, Els Pelgrom ("The Acorn Eaters"), Chris van der Heijden ("The Splendour of Spain from Cervantes to Velázquez"), "Albert Helman", Maarten Steenmeijer, and Jean Arnoldus Schalekamp ("This is Majorca: The Balearic Islands : Minorca, Ibiza, Formentera").
Menorca protected by the Royal Navy, this time allied to Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, Menorca stayed loyal to the Republican Spanish Government, while the rest of the Balearic Islands supported the Nationalists. It did not see ground combat, however the island was a target of aerial bombing by the pro-Nationalist Italians of Corpo Truppe Volontarie Air Force. Many Minorcans were also killed when taking part in a failed invasion of Majorca. Also some Majorcans and a priest were executed in Minorca during the Pedro Marqués Barber era (July–December 1936). After Nationalist victory in the Battle of Minorca in February