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Lérida (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 41 37 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 41.6167 decimal degrees |
| Long: 000 37 20 E degrees minutes |
Long: 0.6222 decimal degrees |
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Note: Was strategic fortified center; taken from Pompey by Julius Caesar in Roman Civil War in 49 BC; was site of Visigothic council in 546; was taken by Moors in 713; was recaptured by Ramón Berenguer IV of Aragón in 1149. |
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| Lérida (preferred,C,V)
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| Lleida (C,V)
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| Ilerda (H,V)
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............ | Iberian |
| Lareda (H,V)
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............ | Moorish |
| Lerita (H,V)
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............ | Moorish |
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Lleida (province) (P) |
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Lérida (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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was an ancient Iberian center |
| city (C) |
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| provincial capital (C) |
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| trade center (C) |
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trades wine, wool, leather, cattle & fruit |
| episcopal see (C) |
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| battlefield (H) |
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was key point in defense of Barcelona in Spanish civil war; fell after 9-month siege in 1938 |
| university center (H) |
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was seat of famous medieval university, 13th-18th cen. |
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