Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region of southern Spain on the Mediterranean Sea, the Strait of Gibraltar, and the Atlantic Ocean. The area contains magnificent Moorish architecture, including the historic towns of Seville, Granada, and Córdoba.
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- proper noun The most
populated and second largest of the seventeenautonomous communities that constituteSpain , whose capital isSeville .
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- noun a region in southern Spain on the Atlantic and the Mediterranean; formerly a center of Moorish civilization
Etymologies
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Examples
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That was the very spirit that existed in Andalusia for centuries under wise Islamic rule where Jews, Christians and Muslims lived, worked and created side by side in peace and harmony.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi: A Monument of Tolerance in the Heart of Dubai Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi 2010
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That was the very spirit that existed in Andalusia for centuries under wise Islamic rule where Jews, Christians and Muslims lived, worked and created side by side in peace and harmony.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi: A Monument of Tolerance in the Heart of Dubai Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi 2010
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In the 10th century, in Andalusia, Al-Zahrawi devised the forceps, speculum and bonesaw, pioneered inhalant anaesthetics in the form of sponges soaked with cannabis and opium, and even described the first syringe.
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim al-Khalili – review Tim Radford 2010
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That was the very spirit that existed in Andalusia for centuries under wise Islamic rule where Jews, Christians and Muslims lived, worked and created side by side in peace and harmony.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi: A Monument of Tolerance in the Heart of Dubai Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi 2010
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I lived in Andalusia and heard the "eating" of the "s" among the locals, but the announcers at Sevillan TV station seemed to me to speak Castillan.
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I lived in Andalusia and heard the "eating" of the "s" among the locals, but the announcers at Sevillan TV station seemed to me to speak Castillan.
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I lived in Andalusia and heard the "eating" of the "s" among the locals, but the announcers at Sevillan TV station seemed to me to speak Castillan.
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I lived in Andalusia and heard the "eating" of the "s" among the locals, but the announcers at Sevillan TV station seemed to me to speak Castillan.
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Now this city was in Andalusia; and that very year Tárik ibn Ziyád conquered it, during the Caliphate of Al – Walíd son of Abd al-Malik141 of the sons of Umayyah; and slew this
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I lived in Andalusia and heard the "eating" of the "s" among the locals, but the announcers at Sevillan TV station seemed to me to speak Castillan.
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