Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northeast Spain on the Ebro River northeast of Madrid. An important city under Roman rule, it was held by the Moors from 714 until 1118.
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- proper noun The former name of
Zaragoza .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an ancient city on the Ebro River in northeastern Spain; formerly the capital of Aragon
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Examples
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It was also invited to attend the Innovate Europe conference in Saragossa, Spain.
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I was, however, startled to find that such business forms, printed in Saragossa, were being used in the Jiloca region by the early 1600s.
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In the previous two chapters, we began to see the Church hierarchy in Saragossa defining the communities in different terms.
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The Countess of Aranda arrived then in Saragossa, and was extremely well received by the king and the whole court.
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Going one day, according to her custom, to pay her court to the king, who was then in Saragossa, she passed through a village belonging to the Viceroy of Catalonia, who did not quit the frontiers of Perpignan, on account of the wars between the Kings of France and Spain.
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Fantasy on the other hand is as old as humanity (Homer is fantasy by any definition you care) and epics are also as old as humanity, so it's a different story there and no wonder there is a lot of old enjoyable fantasy out there, maybe not about elves, but fantasy nonetheless (check Arabian Nights, Melmoth the Wanderer, Manuscript Found in Saragossa - just to give some books that I still enjoy and are several hundred or more years old).
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The Archbiship and the Church in Saragossa: Chapter 8
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The others followed, and still as Rodriguez went that famous name Saragossa echoed within his mind.
Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917
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I am now better, and hope in a few days to be able to proceed to Saragossa, which is the only road open.
Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society George Henry Borrow 1842
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Authorities at the rail station in Zaragoza - also called Saragossa - found that the keys for the car, which has a customised number plate reading "P33NNT", were left on the passenger seat.
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