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Pam⋅plo⋅na

[pam-ploh-nuh; Sp. pahm-plaw-nah]
–noun
a city in N Spain. 147,168.
Also, Pampeluna.
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Pam·plo·na   (pām-plō'nə, päm-plō'nä)   
A city of northern Spain east-southeast of Bilbao. An ancient Basque city, it was captured by the Visigoths, Franks, and Moors and became the capital of the kingdom of Navarre (824-1512). The annual running of the bulls during the feast of San Fermin was celebrated in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926). Population: 195,000.
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