Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region and former kingdom of northwest Spain south of the Bay of Biscay. The original Iberian inhabitants were conquered by Rome in the first century BC.
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- proper noun An
autonomous community ofSpain , on the Spanish north coast facing the Cantabrian Sea.
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Examples
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Krause, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and his colleagues extracted DNA from two 38,000-year-old Neanderthals collected from El Sidron Cave in Asturias, Spain.
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Oviedo, the capital city of Asturias, is another very nice city.
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Asturias is invaded from the East after the river Deva is crossed; Llanes falls.
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Buried) - a new topical concern appears in Asturias's epic work: the theme of the struggle against the domination of American trusts, epitomized by the United Fruit Company, and its political and economic effects upon the contemporary history of the Banana
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Alphonsi Regis, apud Pagi, tom.iii. p. 177.] 182 The revival of tire Gothic kingdom in the Asturias is distinctly though concisely noticed by d’Anville (Etats de l’Europe, p. 159)]
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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All within the Asturias were the subjects and friends of don Palayo, and the fair inmates of the castle would have found a defender in every rustic they met, had any danger been near.
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However, it would be very unfair to tag Asturias as a clone band, as here we are mainly referring to similarities in the structuring of albums, and in the emphasis on instrumental compositions rather than conventional songs.
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However, it would be very unfair to tag Asturias as a clone band, as here we are mainly referring to similarities in the structuring of albums, and in the emphasis on instrumental compositions rather than conventional songs.
Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2010
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However, it would be very unfair to tag Asturias as a clone band, as here we are mainly referring to similarities in the structuring of albums, and in the emphasis on instrumental compositions rather than conventional songs.
Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2010
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However, it would be very unfair to tag Asturias as a clone band, as here we are mainly referring to similarities in the structuring of albums, and in the emphasis on instrumental compositions rather than conventional songs.
Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2010
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