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Escorial

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Es·co·ri·al  (-skôr-l, -skr-, sk-r-äl)
A monastery and palace of central Spain near Madrid. Built from 1563 to 1584, it was commissioned by Philip II to commemorate a victory over the French and is the burial place of many Spanish sovereigns.
Escorial [ˌɛskɒrɪˈɑːl ɛˈskɔːrɪəl], Escurial
n
(Placename) a village in central Spain, northwest of Madrid: site of an architectural complex containing a monastery, palace, and college, built by Philip II between 1563 and 1584


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Three Sonatas from the Royal Escorial, for Violin and Piano--Antonio Soler, transcribed and edited by Samuel Marder.
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Using local archival evidence of the town of El Escorial, Izquierdo Martin presents preliminary information: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, El Escorial suffered from an acute demographic crisis, as its population after the 1591 epidemic did not recover in numbers until the year 1848.
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