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Pamplona
(päm plō̂′nä)
city in Navarre, NE Spain: pop. 182,000
See Pamplona in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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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