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Calpe

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Cal·pe  (klp)
Ancient Gibraltar. Calpe was one of the Pillars of Hercules at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.
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Noun1.CalpeCalpe - location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules
Europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
Pillars of Hercules - the two promontories at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar; according to legend they were formed by Hercules
Gibraltarian - a native or inhabitant of Gibraltar


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Siede Pluton nel mezzo, e con la destra sostien lo scettro ruvido e pesante; ne tanto scoglio in mar, ne rupe alpestra, ne pur Calpe s'inalza o 'l magno Atlante, ch'anzi lui non paresse un picciol colle, si la gran fronte e le gran corna estolle.
6 Jose Amador de los Rios, Vida del Marques de Santillana, reprinted by Espasa Calpe (Madrid, 1947), 83-84: "Aquel inextinguible amor al estudio, aquella insaciable sed de nuevas y mas luminosas ideas que le animo toda su vida estableciendo vivos y estrechos comercios con los pueblos mas cultos de Europa," which "dotaron a Castilla de inapreciables tesoros y contribuyeron poderosamente a preparar la venturosa era de Isabel la Catolica, epoca de verdadero renacimiento.
Higher Education formed a publishing partnership with Editorial Espasa Calpe, a subsidiary of Grupo Planeta, one of the largest Spanish language publishers in the world.
 
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