Compostela
Britishnoun
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The crash late on Sunday is Spain's deadliest train accident since 2013, when 80 people died after a train veered off a curved section of track outside the northwestern city of Santiago de Compostela.
From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026
And it’s nothing new — think the Christian pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela, Jerusalem and Rome of the Middle Ages, for starters.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024
Scientists led by Edgard Camarós, a paleopathologist at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain were studying an approximately 4,600-year-old Egyptian skull when they found signs of brain cancer and its treatment.
From New York Times • May 29, 2024
In addition to the University of Exeter, the research team included scientists from the University of Vigo and the University of Santiago de Compostela.
From Science Daily • Oct. 5, 2023
The region subdued by Guzmán was named Nueva Galicia, of which the conqueror became governor and Compostela the capital.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
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