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Calpe

British  
/ ˈkælpɪ /

noun

  1. the ancient name for (the Rock of) Gibraltar

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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I am just off to the Calpe conference on Gibraltar’s Neanderthals.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2016

Its Roman name is Mons Calpe, Hollow Mountain, due to the caverns that honeycomb its limestone, many of them so deep that they were thought to mark the entrance to hell.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2014

The Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula began when their general Tariq ibn Ziyad landed at Mons Calpe in 711, henceforth renamed Jebel Tariq — i.e.

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2012

"It should be an agronomy revolution," Calpe, the FAO economist said.

From Reuters ● Jun. 10, 2011

Calpe: Gibraltar; Lofoden: the Maelstrom whirlpool off the N.-W. coast of Norway.

From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave

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