Spain
España
- Andalucía : Andalusia
- Aragón : Aragon in historical context, also Aragón referring to modern Spain
- País Vasco : Basque Country
- Castilla : Castile
- Catalunya / Cataluña : Catalonia
- Córdoba : Cordova
- A Coruña/La Coruña : Corunna
- Duero : river Douro, English uses the Portuguese name
- Gran Canaria : Grand Canary (obsolete)
- Islas Baleares : Balearic Islands
- Islas Canarias : Canary Islands
- Mallorca : Majorca
- Menorca : Minorca English uses the Italian spelling, also Menorca
- Navarra : Navarre
- Pireneos : Pyrenees
- Sevilla : Seville
- Tajo : Tagus
- Tenerife : Teneriffe (obsolete)
- Vizcaya : Biscay
- Zaragoza : Saragossa (old), Zaragoza (increasingly used in English)
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Famous quotes containing the word spain:
“last time I saw you was the hospital
pale skull protruding under ashen skin
blue veined unconscious girl
in an oxygen tent
the war in Spain has ended long ago
Aunt Rose”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“How the devil am I to prove to my counsel that I don’t know my murderous impulses through C.G. Jung, jealousy through Marcel Proust, Spain through Hemingway ... It’s true, you need never have read these authorities, you can absorb them through your friends, who also live all their experiences second-hand. What an age!”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“England and France, Spain and Portugal, Gold Coast and Slave Coast, all front on this private sea; but no bark from them has ventured out of sight of land, though it is without doubt the direct way to India.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)