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- proper noun history A former kingdom in
northwestern Spain - proper noun archaic
Asturias
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Examples
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"Asturiana," the title track, is a song from the Spanish province of Asturia.
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"Asturiana," the title track, is a song from the Spanish province of Asturia.
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In Barcelona they are called in one thing, in Galicia another, and in Asturia yet another.
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Asturia, which was discovered by the King, introduced him first at Court as a harp player, and, when his brother was exiled, he was entrusted with the correspondence of the Princess with her gallant.
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Asturia, in a letter to Cyxilas, archbishop of Toledo in 777, says that the queen had sent presents to the church of St. Thyrsus, which the archbishop had built, viz. a silver chalice and paten, a basin to wash the hands in, with a pipe and a diadem on the cover, to be used when the blood of our Lord was distributed to the people.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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The delicate state of his present Majesty's health does not promise a much longer continuance of his reign, and the Prince of Asturia is too well informed to endure the guidance of the most ignorant Minister that ever was admitted into the Cabinet and confidence of a Sovereign.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Asturia, which was discovered by the King, introduced him first at Court as a harp player, and, when his brother was exiled, he was entrusted with the correspondence of the Princess with her gallant.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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The delicate state of his present Majesty's health does not promise a much longer continuance of his reign, and the Prince of Asturia is too well informed to endure the guidance of the most ignorant Minister that ever was admitted into the Cabinet and confidence of a Sovereign.
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-- When, in the eighth century, the Saracens swept like a wave over Spain, the mountains of Asturia, in the northwest corner of the peninsula, afforded a refuge for the most resolute of the Christian chiefs who refused to submit their necks to the Moslem yoke.
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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His head is kept at Villa Franca, in the diocese of Asturia, and his body at
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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