Zaragoza

[ thah-rah-gaw-thah, sah-rah-gaw-sah ]

noun

1. Spanish name of Saragossa.

Zaragoza

/ θaraˈɣoθa /

noun

1. a city in NE Spain, on the River Ebro: Roman colony established 25 bc ; under Moorish rule (714–1118); capital of Aragon (12th–15th centuries); twice besieged by the French during the Peninsular War and captured (1809); university (1474). Pop: 626 081 (2003 est) Pre-Roman nameSalduba Latin nameCaesaraugusta English nameSaragossa

Example Sentences

Madrid was at once evacuated; and Clausel fell back from Zaragoza into France.

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It will be seen that Zaragoza has not very much to interest an architect or ecclesiologist.

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In Zaragoza are sixty looms, which consume fifty thousand pounds of silk; but taffetas only are manufactured there.

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Nobody else dared even to make a remark about the animal; but when Zaragoza saw it, he drove it into his yard.

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After they had talked a while, Zaragoza offered his bottle of wine to the soldiers, who freely drank from it.

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