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Zaragoza (Spanish: [θaɾaˈɣoθa] ⓘ) also known in English as Saragossa, [a] [5] is the capital city of the province of Zaragoza and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributaries, the Huerva and the Gállego , roughly in the centre of both Aragon and the Ebro basin.
The province of Zaragoza is bordered by the provinces of Lleida, Tarragona, Teruel, Guadalajara, Soria, La Rioja, Navarre, and Huesca.The southern and western side of the province is in the mountainous Sistema Ibérico area and includes its highest point, the Moncayo, while the northern end reaches the Pre-Pyrenees.
Map (1868) of the second siege of Zaragoza Amid bitter street fighting, French infantry assault the defenders of a church during the siege. Illustration by Jules Girardet. The surrender of Zaragoza, by Maurice Orange. The siege of Zaragoza was the French capture of the Spanish city of Zaragoza (also known as Saragossa) in 1809 during the ...
Map showing the distribution of language families; the pink color shows where Austronesian languages are spoken. This is a list of major and official Austronesian languages, a language family originating from Taiwan, that is widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia (Indonesia and Philippines) and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia and Madagascar.
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1514 – Church of Santa Engracia de Zaragoza built. [citation needed] 1754 – Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar built. 1808 – June–August: Siege of Saragossa by French forces. [3] 1809 – Siege of Saragossa by French forces. [3] 1857 – Population: 63,399. [5] 1892 – Leaning Tower of Zaragoza demolished. 1897 – Population: 98,188. [5]
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Baroque altar decorations of wood with paintings by Jusepe Martínez (1647), a painter from Zaragoza. Alabaster sculpture of the Virgin with child from the fifteenth century made by the French sculptor Fortaner de Uesques. On the floor lie various tombstones of the archbishops of Zaragoza from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.