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Pillars of Hercules

two headlands on either side of the Strait of Gibraltar, one at Gibraltar (ancient Calpe) & the other at Ceuta (ancient Abyla) or Jebel Musa, on the coast of Africa

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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