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Zaragoza is home to a Spanish Air and Space Force base, which was shared with the U.S. Air Force until 1992. [58] In English, the base was known as Zaragoza Air Base. The Spanish Air Force maintained a McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet wing at the base. No American flying wings (with the exception of a few KC-135s) were permanently based there ...
The bas relief of her atop the eastern gate of the 17th-century Spanish military fort dedicated to the Virgin, Fort Pilar (Full name: Royal Fort of our Virgin Lady of the Pillar of Zaragoza, El Fuerte Real de Nuestra Señora Virgen del Pilar de Zaragoza), is now a Catholic Marian shrine. The city also has a street named after her – Pilar Street.
Zaragoza (Spanish pronunciation: [θaɾaˈɣoθa]), also called Saragossa in English, [1] is a province of northern Spain, in the central part of the autonomous community of Aragon. Its capital is the city of Zaragoza , which is also the capital of the autonomous community.
The Treaty of Zaragoza laid down that the eastern border between the two domain zones was 297 + 1 ⁄ 2 leagues (1,763 kilometres, 952 nautical miles) [note 4], or 17° east, of the Maluku Islands. [11] This left the islands within the Portuguese domain. In exchange, the King of Portugal paid Emperor Charles V 350,000 gold ducats. The treaty ...
The Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar (Spanish: Catedral-Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar) is a Catholic church in the city of Zaragoza, Aragon.It is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of the Pillar, [1] praised as "Mother of the Hispanic Peoples" by Pope John Paul II.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Zaragoza, Spain This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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The last provoked the Battle of Puebla on 5 May 1862, when 6,000 French troops attacked the forts named Loreto and Guadalupe outside of the city of Puebla, but they were repelled by forces under Ignacio Zaragoza. Zaragoza died some months after this battle, and he would be later honored by having his name added to that of the city.