As·tu·ri·as ( -st r  -s, -styr-, äs-t ryäs) A region and former kingdom of northwest Spain south of the Bay of Biscay. The original Iberian inhabitants were conquered by Rome in the second century b.c. As·tu ri·an adj. & n. |
| Asturias, Miguel Ángel 1899-1974. Guatemalan writer whose El Señor Presidente (1946) is often considered his greatest novel. He won the 1966 Nobel Prize for literature. |
Asturias [æˈstʊərɪˌæs]
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(Placename) a region and former kingdom of NW Spain, consisting of a coastal plain and the Cantabrian Mountains: a Christian stronghold against the Moors (8th to 13th centuries); rich mineral resources
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(Biographies / Asturias, Miguel Ángel (1899-1974) M, Guatemalan, WRITING: novelist, WRITING: poet) Miguel Ángel. 1899-1974, Guatemalan novelist and poet. His novels include El Señor Presidente (1946). Nobel prize for literature 1967
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