Sagunto

[ suh-goon-toh; Spanish sah-goon-taw ]

noun

1. a city in E Spain, N of Valencia: besieged by Hannibal 219–218 b.c.

Sagunto

/ saˈɣunto /

noun

1. an industrial town in E Spain, near Valencia: allied to Rome and made a heroic resistance to the Carthaginian attack led by Hannibal (219–218 bc ). Pop: 58 287 (2003 est) Ancient nameSaguntumsəˈɡuːntəm

Example Sentences

This town is no longer in existence, but a small rancheria called Tilyrpan was founded in 1906 nearer to Sagunto.

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When this ship crashed and filled and went down, the Sagunto was lying, after a terrible buffeting, within a safe harbor.

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The dry fields off there near Sagunto reminded him of an inferno of drought, from which he fortunately had liberated himself.

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And there was the castle of Sagunto, its wavy ramparts curling up and down along the summit of the ridge of caramel brown.

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When he first became acquainted with his wife, he was a millhand in the neighbourhood of Sagunto.

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