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Ourense

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Ourense (Orense) is a city in northwestern Spain, the capital of the province of the same name in Galicia. [1]

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Adolfo Domínguez

Adolfo Domínguez Fernández (born May 14, 1950), is a Spanish fashion designer.

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Agencia Estatal de Meteorología

Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, AEMET (translated from Spanish as the State Meteorological Agency) is Spain's meteorological agency operating under the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment.

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Alcalde

Alcalde, or Alcalde ordinario, is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions.

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Alfonso III of Asturias

Alfonso III (20 December 910), called the Great (el Magno), was the king of León, Galicia and Asturias from 866 until his death.

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Almanzor

Abu ʿĀmir Muḥammad bin ʿAbdullāh ibn Abi ʿĀmir, al-Ḥājib al-Manṣūr (أبو عامر محمد بن عبد الله بن أبي عامر الحاجب المنصور) (c. 938 – August 8, 1002), better known as Almanzor, was for 24 years (978–1002) the de facto ruler of Muslim Iberia (al-Andalus) under the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba (Khilāfat Qurṭuba).

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Antonia Ferrín Moreiras

Antonia Ferrín Moreiras (Ourense, May 13, 1914 – Santiago de Compostela, August 6, 2009) was a mathematician, professor and the first female Galician astronomer.

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Argot

An argot (from French argot 'slang') is a secret language used by various groups—e.g., schoolmates, outlaws, colleagues, among many others—to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.

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Autonomous communities of Spain

In Spain, an autonomous community (comunidad autónoma, autonomia erkidegoa, comunitat autònoma, comunidade autónoma, comunautat autonòma) is a first-level political and administrative division, created in accordance with the Spanish constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing limited autonomy of the nationalities and regions that make up Spain.

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Barallete

Barallete is a largely vanished argot which used to be employed by the traditional knife-sharpeners and umbrella-repairers (afiadores e paragüeiros) of the Galician province of Ourense, in Spain.

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Brazilians

Brazilians (brasileiros in Portuguese) are citizens of Brazil.

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Camino de Santiago

The Camino de Santiago (Peregrinatio Compostellana, "Pilgrimage of Compostela"; O Camiño de Santiago), known in English as the Way of Saint James among other names, is a network of pilgrims' ways serving pilgrimage to the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition has it that the remains of the saint are buried.

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Castanea sativa

Castanea sativa, or sweet chestnut, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fagaceae, native to Southern Europe and Asia Minor, and widely cultivated throughout the temperate world.

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Comarca

A comarca (or, pl. comarcas; or, pl. comarques) is a traditional region or local administrative division found in Portugal, Spain and some of their former colonies: Panama, Nicaragua, and Brazil.

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Communist Party of Galicia

The Communist Party of Galicia (Partido Comunista de Galicia, PCG), is the affiliate of the Communist Party of Spain in Galicia.

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Country

A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography.

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Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)

Democratic and Social Centre (Centro Democrático y Social, CDS) was a liberal political party in Spain, which was founded in 1982 by Adolfo Suárez, former Prime Minister of Spain.

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Emigration from Colombia

Emigration from Colombia is a migratory phenomenon that has been taking place in Colombia since the early 20th century.

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En Marea

En Marea (translated in English as en masse) is a political alliance integrated by Podemos, Anova, United Left of Galicia, and some municipal alliances that participated in the 2015 municipal elections (Marea Atlántica, Compostela Aberta and Ferrol en Común).

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Galicia (Spain)

Galicia (Galician: Galicia, Galiza; Galicia; Galiza) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law.

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Galician Coalition

Galician Coalition (Galician: Coalición Galega, CG) is a political party in Galiza with a Galician nationalist and centrist ideology.

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Galician language

Galician (galego) is an Indo-European language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch.

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Galician National-Popular Bloc

The Galician National-Popular Bloc (BNPG or BN-PG, Bloque Nacional-Popular Galego in Galician language) was a Galician electoral candidacy.

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Galician Nationalist Bloc

The Galician Nationalist Bloc (Bloque Nacionalista Galego, BNG) is a political coalition of left-wing Galician nationalist parties.

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Galician Progressive Coalition

Galician Progressive Coalition (Galician: Coalición Progresista Galega, CPG) was a centre-right Galician political coalition formed for the municipal elections of 1987.

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Hot spring

A hot spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater that rises from the Earth's crust.

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ISO 3166-2:ES

ISO 3166-2:ES is the entry for Spain in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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La Región

La Región is a daily newspaper in the city and province of Ourense, in the Southeastern part of Galicia, an autonomous community (region) of Spain.

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Mayor–council government

The mayor–council government system is a system of organization of local government.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate or dry summer climate is characterized by rainy winters and dry summers.

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Minho (river)

Minho (Miniu) or Miño is the longest river in Galicia, sharing the border with Portugal, with a length of.

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Moors

The term "Moors" refers primarily to the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and Malta during the Middle Ages.

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Oak

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae.

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Ourense (comarca)

Ourense is a comarca in the Galician Province of Ourense.

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Ourense Cathedral

Ourense Cathedral (Catedral de Ourense or Catedral do San Martiño) is a Roman Catholic church located in Ourense in northwestern Spain.

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Ourense-Empalme railway station

Ourense-Empalme Railway Station is the main railway station of Ourense, Spain.

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Parroquia

Parroquia (pl. parroquias;, pl. parroquies) or Parròquia (pl. parròquies) is a term equivalent to the English Parish; used in Andorra, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and some parts of northwestern Spain.

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People's Alliance (Spain)

The People's Alliance (Alianza Popular, AP) was a post-Francoist electoral coalition, and later a conservative political party in Spain, founded in 1976 as federation of political associations.

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People's Party (Spain)

The People's Party (Partido Popular; known mostly by its acronym, PP) is a conservative and Christian democratic political party in Spain.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus,, of the family Pinaceae.

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Ponte Vella

Ponte Vella (Galician, "old bridge", Ponte Romana (Roman bridge), Ponte Maior (high bridge)) is a medieval footbridge built on Roman foundations in Ourense, Spain.

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Portuguese people

Portuguese people are an ethnic group indigenous to Portugal that share a common Portuguese culture and speak Portuguese.

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Province

A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state.

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Province of Ourense

Ourense is a province of northwestern Spain, in the southeastern part of the autonomous community of Galicia.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe characterized by semi-circular arches.

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San Cibrao das Viñas

San Cibrao das Viñas is a municipality in the Province of Ourense in the Galicia region of north-west Spain.

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Sancho II of Castile and León

Sancho II (1036/1038 – 7 October 1072), called the Strong (el Fuerte), was King of Castile (1065–72), Galicia (1071–72) and León (1072).

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Santiago de Compostela Cathedral

The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela (Spanish and Galician: Catedral de Santiago de Compostela) is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela and is an integral component of the Santiago de Compostela World Heritage Site in Galicia, Spain.

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Socialists' Party of Galicia

The Socialists' Party of Galicia (Partido dos Socialistas de Galicia, PSdeG–PSOE) is a centre-left political party in Galicia, Spain.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Suebi

The Suebi (or Suevi, Suavi, or Suevians) were a large group of Germanic tribes, which included the Marcomanni, Quadi, Hermunduri, Semnones, Lombards and others, sometimes including sub-groups simply referred to as Suebi.

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Tecnopole

The Tecnopole is a technology park in Galicia, Spain, with an area of 550,000 square metres.

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The Portuguese Way

The Portuguese Way (Camino Portugués, Caminho Português) is the name of the Way of St. James pilgrimage routes starting in Portugal.

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Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain)

The Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD, also translated as "Democratic Centre Union") was an electoral coalition, and later political party, in Spain, existing from 1977 to 1983.

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United Left (Galicia)

Esquerda Unida, EU is the Galician federation of the Spanish left wing political and social movement United Left.

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University of Vigo

The University of Vigo (Universidade de Vigo) is a public university located in the city of Vigo, Galicia, Spain.

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Xunta de Galicia

The Xunta de Galicia ("Government of Galicia") is the collective decision-making body of the government of the autonomous community of Galicia, composed of the President, the Vice-President(s) and the specialized ministers (Conselleiros).

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History of Ourense, Orense, Orensic, Ourense, Spain, UN/LOCODE:ESORE.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ourense

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