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Urgel

American  
[oor-hel] / urˈhɛl /

noun

  1. a town in northeastern Spain, south-southwest of Andorra: known for its cathedral.


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The principal actors in that anachronistic tableau, Andorra's co-Princes, are France's President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and the Spanish Bishop of Urgel, Joan Marti Alanis.

From Time Magazine Archive

Co-princes of Andorra are the Spanish Bishop of Urgel and the President of France, who, as head of the French Republic, inherits the suzerainty of the 11th-t015th Century Counts of Foix.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Spaniards, who are the dominant influence in Andorran life, were irked that he had refused to meet his Spanish Co-Prince, the Bishop of Urgel, except at an out-of-the-way church.

From Time Magazine Archive

Paternally he listened while they explained that the Bishop of Urgel, his co-Suzerain, has recently appointed not Andorrans but Spaniards to carry the Andorra mails.

From Time Magazine Archive

In right of his wife Ermessende, Roger Bernard the Great of Foix was Vizconde of Castelbo, a fief held of the Bishop of Urgel, with whom he had had a bitter war.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea

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