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Pampeluna

American  
[pahm-pe-loo-nah] / ˌpɑm pɛˈlu nɑ /

noun

  1. Pamplona.


Pampeluna British  
/ ˌpæmpəˈluːnə /

noun

  1. the former name of Pamplona

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Until Tolosa was captured by the Carlists, no serious attack on Pampeluna was probable; and that attack was likely to assume the form of an investment.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea

Miguel Hilarion Eslava, the composer, was born in 1807, near Pampeluna, in the north of Spain.

From The Story of Seville by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

Childebert also made a series of expeditions against the Visigoths of Spain; in 542 he took possession of Pampeluna with the help of his brother Clotaire I., and besieged Saragossa, but was forced to retreat.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various

In the summer of 778 he crossed the Pyrenees, took the cities of Pampeluna and Saragossa, and delivered all Spain north of the Ebro river from the hands of the Saracen Caliph.

From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Bayard Taylor

The flow of the waterfall was again stopped, and with the same caution that had marked all their movements since they left Pampeluna, the guerillas descended from their eyrie.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various

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