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Huesca

British

/ ˈueska /

noun

Latin name: Osca. a city in NE Spain: Roman town, site of Quintus Sertorius' school (76 _bc ); 15th-century cathedral and ancient palace of Aragonese kings. Pop: 47 609 (2003 est)

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Hundreds of people lined the streets Monday for a funeral procession for Huesca, who was laid to rest following church services in Chicago.

From Seattle Times • May 2, 2024

Carlos Saura Atarés was born on Jan. 4, 1932, in Huesca, in northeastern Spain.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2023

Carlos Saura Atarés was born in Huesca on Jan. 4, 1932.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023

Born in the northeastern city of Huesca in 1932, Saura was raised in Murcia in the arid south.

From Reuters • Feb. 10, 2023

Things getting hot in Huesca, he embarks for Buenos Ayres as a missionary, leaving poor Donna de la Victoria `dans une inquiétude mortelle', as she might well have been.

From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)

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