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Originally known as Auso, it was known in Latin as Vicus Ausonae. [4] From Latin vicus (neighborhood or urban population), it became Vich in Old Catalan.. In 1538, Lorenzo de Padilla writes Vic Bique [5] and it appears as Vique in the Memorial of the Bishop of Vic, Antonio Pascual (ca. 1694) [6] In 1715, Spain's Nueva Planta decrees for Catalonia gave the city the Spanish name of Vique; [7] an ...
The Plain of Vic (Catalan Plana de Vic) is a 30 km long depression located at the eastern end of the Catalan Central Depression in the Osona comarca. It is named after the town of Vic , an important and ancient urban center in this natural region that lies in the midst of the plain.
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With a land area of 504,782 square kilometres (194,897 sq mi) in the Iberian peninsula, [1] Spain is the largest country in Southern Europe, the second largest country in Western Europe (behind France), and the fourth largest country in the European continent (behind Russia, Ukraine, and France). It has an average altitude of 650 m.
A province in Spain [note 1] is a territorial division defined as a collection of municipalities. [1] [2] [3] The current provinces of Spain correspond by and large to the provinces created under the purview of the 1833 territorial re-organization of Spain, with a similar predecessor from 1822 (during the Trienio Liberal) and an earlier precedent in the 1810 Napoleonic division of Spain into ...
The Diocese of Vic (Latin: Dioecesis Vicensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church with its seat in the city of Vic in the ecclesiastical province of Tarragona in Catalonia, Spain. Its cathedral is a basilica dedicated to Saint Peter .
Spain, [f] officially the Kingdom of Spain, [a] [g] is a country in Southwestern Europe with territories in North Africa. [ h ] Featuring the southernmost point of continental Europe , it is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union member state.
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