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New Castile
(Encyclopedia)New Castile, Spain: see Castile.Old Castile
(Encyclopedia)Old Castile, Spain: see Castile.Lérida
(Encyclopedia)Lérida, city, Spain: see Lleida.Tarrasa
(Encyclopedia)Tarrasa, city, Spain: see Terrassa. ...La Granja
(Encyclopedia)La Granja, Spain: see San Ildefonso. ...Drake, Sir Francis
(Encyclopedia)Drake, Sir Francis, 1540?–1596, English navigator and admiral, first Englishman to circumnavigate the world (1577–80). In 1585, Drake commanded a fleet that sacked Vigo in Spain and burned São ...Minas de Ríotinto
(Encyclopedia)Minas de Ríotinto, Spain: see Río Tinto. ...Compostela, Santiago de
(Encyclopedia)Compostela, Santiago de, Spain: see Santiago de Compostela. ...Coruña, A
(Encyclopedia)Coruña, A, or La Coruña, Spain: see A Coruña. ...Yusuf ibn Tashfin
(Encyclopedia)Yusuf ibn Tashfin yo͞oso͝ofˈ ĭˈbən täshfēnˈ [key], d. 1106, ruler in the dynasty of the Almoravids (c.1059–1106). A Muslim, he led the Berbers in N Africa, continued the conquest of Morocco...Browse by Subject
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