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Bur⋅gos

  [boor-gaws]
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a city in N Spain: Gothic cathedral. 119,915.
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Bur·gos   (bōōr'gōs')   
A city of northern Spain on a high plateau south-southwest of Bilbao. Founded c. 884, it was the capital of the kingdom of Castile in the 11th century and of Francisco Franco's regime during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Population: 174,000.
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Burgos

provincia (province) in the Castile-Leon comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), north-central Spain. It was created in 1833. Burgos province also includes the enclave of Trevino, which is administratively part of Alava province. Burgos is crossed by the Ebro River in the north and the Duero River in the south, neither of which is navigable. Burgos is one of the great forested provinces of Spain, with pine, oak, and beech areas under state management.

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