Calpe
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
"What we expect in the future is there will be much more unexpected events, much more extreme climate change," said Concepcion Calpe, a senior economist with the FAO in Rome.
From Reuters • Jun. 10, 2011
The gray summits of the rock of Calpe brightened with the first rays of morning, as the Christian army issued forth from its encampment.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord
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