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Asturias

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As·tu·ri·as  (-str-s, -styr-, äs-tryäs)
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·turi·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]
n
(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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Asturias [æˈstʊərɪæs] N → Asturias f


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" said he, "if ye fall this day ye fall by no mean hands, for the flower of the knighthood of Castile ride under the banner of Don Tello, with the chivalry of Asturias, Toledo, Leon, Cordova, Galicia, and Seville.
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