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Orense

American  
[aw-ren-se] / ɔˈrɛn sɛ /

noun

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


Orense British  
/ oˈrense /

noun

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

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Prosecutors have said Orense worked closely with a former chief of Venezuela's military intelligence agency who was indicted alongside Maduro and extradited to the United States from Spain earlier this year.

From Reuters • Nov. 27, 2023

Just after World War II, he got a job paving five miles of dirt road in his home village of Orense.

From Time Magazine Archive

Don Francisco Blanco, born at Capillas, in the bishopric of Leon, had been bishop of Orense and Malaga, when he was prosecuted on suspicion of Lutheranism, for the same reason as Guerrero.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio

The Marquis of Santa Marta signs himself Guzman; the Marquis of Albaida uses no signature but Orense; both of these gentlemen being Republican deputies.

From Castilian Days by Hay, John

I shall be blamed for sending Craufurd off Along the Orense road.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas