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Definition of Barcelona

1. Noun. A city in northeastern Spain on the Mediterranean; 2nd largest Spanish city and the largest port and commercial center; has been a center for radical political beliefs.

Definition of Barcelona

1. Proper noun. The capital city of Catalonia (Spain). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Barcelona

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Spain and Portugal: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1908)
"From Perpignan to Barcelona 222 From Figueras to Rosas. ... 22 Barcelona 229 a. The Harbour. The Rambla and its Side Streets . 236 b. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Barcelona, a maritime province of north-eastern Spain formed in 1833 out of districts belonging to the ancient kingdom of Catalonia, and bounded on theN. ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"What was anciently the Countship of Barcelona is now the Principality of Catalonia, divided into the four provinces of Barcelona, Tarragona, Lérida, ..."

4. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, from the by Sir William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... to Barcelona—English army from Sicily designed to act in Catalonia—Prevented by Murat—Duhesme forages El Valles—Action of San ..."

5. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1915)
"The second really distinctive provincial school is that of Catalonia, with its capital at Barcelona. This province had its share of the Cistercian ..."

6. A Handbook for Travellers in Spain by Richard Ford (1855)
"Barcelona soon opens in view, with its lines of walls and fortifications and its ... Barcelona enjoys a winter and annual temperature warmer than ..."

7. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1823)
"'HE dreadful ravages committed by yellow fever in the city •*• and suburbs of Barcelona, during the autumn of 1821, of which we gave some account in the ..."

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