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- proper noun
Jamaica 's third largest city, capital until 1872.
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Examples
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Over the past year, Jamaica's offensive against crime has created power vacuums within Spanish Town's gangs.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Miller said police captured Coke on the way to the embassy and then took him to the nearby Spanish Town police headquarters.
Christopher Coke, Alleged Drug Lord, CAPTURED In Jamaica 2010
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Fighting has also been reported in Spanish Town, a suburb west of Kingston.
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Fighting has also been reported in Spanish Town, a suburb west of Kingston.
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Back in Spanish Town we were dropped into a maalstrom of taxis all vying for our business.
Falmouth Jamaica 2008
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Duke was now fifty-two; the rocksteady genre he pioneered was dominant; and a new breed of sound systems was emerging from the old capital, Spanish Town.
The Pirate’s Dilemma Matt Mason 2008
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For the rum shops and cays of Spanish Town and Porto Bello, substitute the seedy southern ports of China, where anything goes, and crooked officials do shady deals far from the reaches of Beijing.
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In Spanish Town, where Food for the Poor is, nothing yet.
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He was granted $80,000 bail when he appeared before the Spanish Town magistrate Court.
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The Saturday was consumed in traveling a bit north of Spanish Town to Serenity Park for a 'warden meeting' which is a Peace Corps version of a staff meeting to exchange news and support.
Another week 2008
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