Salamanca

[ sal-uh-mang-kuh; Spanish sah-lah-mahng-kah ]

noun

1. a city in W Spain: university; Wellington's defeat of the French, 1812.

Salamanca

/ salaˈmaŋka /

noun

1. a city in W Spain: a leading cultural centre of Europe till the end of the 16th century; market town. Pop: 157 906 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

Archer was created by Reed, who thought of the premise while seated at an outdoor café in Salamanca, Spain.

From The Daily Beast

With one column he reached Salamanca on November thirteenth; the head of the other was at Astorga.

From Project Gutenberg

Genoa in her proud confusion heard him not, so he passed to Salamanca and the Dominicans, and set sail from Cadiz.

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Then he proceeded to give a full account of his rescue from the prison of Salamanca.

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The remainder of the message, "the French at Salamanca," received next day, changed the metropolitan sorrow into gladness.

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Marmont retired at once, leaving garrisons in the forts round Salamanca.

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