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Definition of Granada

1. Noun. A city in southeastern Spain that was the capital of the Moorish kingdom until it was captured by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492; site of the Alhambra (a palace and fortress built by Moors in the Middle Ages) which is now a major tourist attraction.

Definition of Granada

1. Proper noun. A city in Spain. ¹

2. Proper noun. A department of Nicaragua. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Granada

Literary usage of Granada

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

1. 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, Andrew Alphonsus MacErlean (1913)
"Finally, after a war which lasted nine years, Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, obtained possession of Granada, entering the capita' city in triumph, ..."

2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1857)
"OP all the countries in the world that embraced within the Republic- of New Granada possesses most marked individualities of character. ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Granada, the capital of the province, and formerly of the kingdom of Granada, ... Granada is magnificently situated, 2195 ft. above the sea, ..."

4. The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New by Roger Bigelow Merriman (1918)
"The fact that the kings of Castile, Granada, and Morocco all possessed numerous rebel vassals, who were ever ready to stretch out the hand of welcome to ..."

5. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1863)
"Certainly they furnished him with its best materials; for the story he relates is founded on the fall of Granada, regarded rather from within, ..."

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