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Battle of the Pyrenees
Pyrenees, battle of the, 1813. Following Wellington's offensive in the spring of 1813, Marshal Soult's army of 88,000 men attempted to lift the siege of the French-held towns of San Sebastián and Pamplona in northern Spain. The series of actions that resulted are known as the battle of the... Read more |
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Pyrenees
Pyrenees , Span. Pirineos, Fr. Pyrénées, mountain chain of SW Europe, 21,380 sq mi (55,374 sq km), between France and Spain, a formidable barrier between the Iberian Peninsula and the European mainland. The principality of Andorra is located among the peaks. Parts of six French... Read more |
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Peace of the Pyrenees
Peace of the Pyrenees 1659, treaty ending the warfare between France and Spain that, continuing after the Peace of Westphalia, had been complicated by French intervention in the revolt of the Catalans (1640-52) and by Spanish intervention in the Fronde . Together with the Peace of Westphalia, it... Read more |
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Roussillon
Roussillon , small region and former province, S France, bordering on Spain along the Pyrenees and on the Mediterranean. It is now roughly coextensive with Pyrénées-Orientales dept. Perpignan is the historical capital. Wine, fruit, and olives are the chief products of this fertile and... Read more |
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Andorra
Andorra , Fr. Andorre , officially Principality of Andorra, autonomous parliamentary co-principality (2005 est. pop. 70,500), 179 sq mi (464 sq km), high in the E Pyrenees between France and Spain, under the joint suzerainty of the president of France and the bishop of Seo de Urgel, Spain. Andorra... Read more |
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Huesca
Huesca , town (1990 pop. 42,805), capital of Huesca prov., NE Spain, in Aragón, at the foot of the Pyrenees. It is a farm center. In this ancient town Sertorius founded a school in 77 BC After Peter I of Aragón liberated it (1096) from the Moors, Huesca was the residence of the kings... Read more |
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Spaniards
Spaniards PRONUNCIATION:SPAN-yurds LOCATION:Spain POPULATION:40 million LANGUAGE:Castilian Spanish; Catalan; Galician; Basque RELIGION:Roman Catholicism 1 • INTRODUCTION Spain is the second-largest nation in Europe, after France. It is a land of contrasts and... Read more |
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Garonne
Garonne , river, 402 mi (647 km) long, rising in the central Pyrenees just inside Spain, and flowing generally NE to Toulouse, in SW France, where it swings northwest to join the Dordogne River and forms the Gironde estuary. The Garonne receives nearly all of the smaller rivers of SW France but is... Read more |
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Pau
Pau , city (1990 pop. 83,928), capital of Pyrénées-Atlantiques dept., SW France, at the foot of the Pyrenees. It is a major year-round tourist center, renowned for its spa and winter sports, as well as its scenery. It has metallurgical and wool industries, and aeronautical equipment,... Read more |
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Gascony
Gascony , Fr. Gascogne, region of SW France. It is now coextensive with the departments of Landes, Gers, and Hautes-Pyrénées and parts of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Lot-et-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne, Haute-Garonne, Gironde, and Ariège. The sandy and swampy Landes ... Read more |
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France
...its 5500km (3440mi) of frontier is sea. The Pyrenees form its sw border with Spain. The Jura Mountains...and mild, moist winters. The Alps, Jura and Pyrenees have good snowfall and are popular for winter sports.VegetationA patchwork of... |
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Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of
...battles of Salamanca, Vitoria, and the Pyrenees he was as resourceful in attack as he...in 1846. His final years saw him as a popular figure and on his death in 1852 he was...had little time for the vagaries of popular opinion, and saw politics in terms of... |
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Spain
...Bilbao and Pamplona are the major cities in Basque Country. The Pyrenees form a natural border with France, and extend s into Navarre...to resign in 1930, and a second republic proclaimed. The Popular Front won 1936 elections, and conflict between republicans... |
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Spanish Civil War
...drifting further and further to the left; particularly after the Popular Front's victory in the elections of February 1936. In July...from the defeated Republican army had by then fled across the Pyrenees and were interned in France, and many later escaped to join... |
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Basques
...which is situated along the western Pyrenees and the eastern end of the Bay of Biscay...it remained loyal to the republican Popular Front government, for which it suffered...The brutality of ETA led to a decline in popular support for its political arm, as the... |
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France
...on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean, and on the east by Belgium, Germany...with England wrecked the monarchy's finances, and mounting popular anger culminated in the FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789).The First... |
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Spain
...west Europe.Physical Spain is bounded by France across the Pyrenees in the north-east and by Portugal on the west of the plateau, the Meseta, on...defeated in elections in 1996 but the winning right-wing Popular Party gained no overall majority and formed a coalition government... |
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Life on the road; MartinWells took his holiday accommodation with him on a...
...redundancy cheque? One of the most popular ways to spend a lump sum is...parking for motorhomes, often in popular coastal resorts, for just...the northern foothills of the Pyrenees on route to the Mediterranean...down from the slopes of the Pyrenees to the ... |
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From the Moselle to the Pyrenees: commemoration, cultural memory and the...
...that it can find expression and reinforcement in a variety of popular cultural forms (visual arts, writing, music, song, etc...memory. Community and the commemoration of 1914-18 In the Pyrenees-Atlantiques, France's most south-westerly border department... |
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British hikers killed in Pyrenees
TWO British hikers killed in an accident in the Spanish Pyrenees have been named. John Peter Field (57) and Richard Christopher...The path they were taking, in the province of Huesca, is popular with climbers but can be dangerous when snow is present. The... |
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Travel: Licence to thrill; PAUL THOROGOOD SPIES A BOND-STYLE RETREAT HIGH IN...
...s Dorra. Andorra. Licensed to thrill... Nestled in the Pyrenees like a Bond villain's retreat, Andorra offers fabulous skiing...It can be tricky when the snow is fast. Snowboarding is popular in Andorra. Soldeu boasts a lift-served snowboard park which... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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The hot-cold treatment in Languedoc ; THE PYRENEES ++ The French Pyrenees...
...are it's the ever- popular Alps which come to mind...while traditionally the Pyrenees have always been something...sheer thrills then the Pyrenees are perfect as the wooded...also steeper than the Pyrenees. Leaseback options...Pic de L'Ours at the ... |
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First comprehensive contribution to medical ethnobotany of Western...
...conservation of features of ancestral popular culture, it opens up the possibility...has been carried out. The Pyrenees are a mountain range, of 435...ethnobotanical research in the Pyrenees has been carried out only in...Study area The Navarre Pyrenees ... |
 "Mail Today (New Delhi, India)")
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AT THE FEET OF PYRENEES BY THE BAY.
...the land is punctuated by the Pyrenees mountain range to make way...seemed to me the second most popular activity on the beach after...by the tourism office of the Pyrenees- Atlantiques department...the sea. The sight of the Pyrenees jutting out of the ... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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SERENITY TEMPERED WITH SECURITY IN THE SHADOW OF THE PYRENEES
...green fields below and the Pyrenees behind. But for those who...see the natural glory of the Pyrenees, drive 40 miles northwest...leashed dog. The park is so popular in the summertime that the...provided a stunning view of the Pyrenees as well. There are ... |
 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Foothold in the foothills of the beautiful south; Rustic, spectacular, good...
...Garonne and the Hautes-Pyrenees, offer year-round skiing...are the ski resorts of the Pyrenees further south. Food and wine...This region is traditionally popular for holiday rentals, but 60...Insee figures rank the Midi-Pyrenees in the top five regions ... |
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MOUNTAIN MAN IS BACK ARMSTRONG SURGES INTO TOUR LEAD, THANKS TO VICTORY IN...
...challenging, 98-mile stage in the Pyrenees and took the overall lead in...to this ski station in the Pyrenees was to escort Armstrong on...mountain stages continue in the Pyrenees today. The crowds will be...Spain in 2000, proved to be as popular with the ... |
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