Orense

[ aw-ren-se ]

noun

1. a city in N Spain, NW of Madrid.

Orense

/ oˈrense /

noun

1. a city in NW Spain, in Galicia on the Miño River: warm springs. Pop: 109 475 (2003 est) Galician nameOurense

Example Sentences

At the end of eight days the news came that Soult, having made all his preparations, had left Orense on his march southward.

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Orense gave him an opening, and the country was for a moment at his mercy.

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They take thence a southerly and south-westerly course, until they unite a few miles above Orense.

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Orense, an inland province east of Pontevedra, has a capital of the same name (11,000) on the banks of the Minho.

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This monastic church, at one time owned by Templars, is situated outside the city boundary on the Orense road.

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