SIERRA MORENA

syāˈrä mōrāˈnä, mountain range, SW Spain, extending c.375 mi (600 km) eastward along the southern edge of the Meseta (central plateau) from the Portuguese border to the Sierra de Alcaraz. Its highest peak is Bañuelo (c.4,340 ft/1,320 m). Partly forested with oak and chestnut trees, the range is also rich in a great variety of minerals, including copper, lead, and coal. The Sierra Morena is crossed by highways and railroads built to take the minerals out of the region. The Despeñaperros Pass is the main route through the mountains, linking Castile and Andalusia.

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books on: Sierra Morena  - 269 results

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The People of the Sierra
Book by J. A. Pitt-Rivers; Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954
Subjects: Alcala de la Sierra (Spain)--Social life and customs, Cities and towns--Spain--Andalusia--Case studies
...are not general, notably in the sierra of Ronda. Ronda is like a provincial capital to the pueblos of the sierra. Like Jerez, it possesses a resident...Baroja, "Las nuevas poblaciones de sierra morena y Andalucia" in Clavileno , 1952...
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The People of the Sierra
Book by J. A. Pitt-Rivers; University of Chicago Press, 1961
Subjects: Cities And Towns--Spain--Andalusia
...are not general, notably in the sierra of Ronda. Ronda is like a provincial capital to the pueblos of the sierra. Like Jerez, it possesses a resident...Baroja, "Las nuevas poblaciones de sierra morena y Andalucia" in Clavileno , 1952...
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Chicana Voices: Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender
Book by Teresa Córdova, Norma Cantú, Gilberto Cardenas, Juan García, Christine M. Sierra; University of New Mexico Press, 1993
Subjects: Mexican American Women--Congresses
...interview, p. 5 The truth, however, was that Socorro did not meet the standards of beauty that had been set for La Virgen Morena: Socorro has strong indigena features and dark brown skin. That also partially explains how she and other Teatro Campesino...
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Mythology: From Ancient to Post-Modern
Book by Jürgen Kleist, Bruce A. Butterfield; Peter Lang, 1992
Subjects: Myth, Mythology
The Labyrinth in Don Quixote: The Sierra Morena The image of the labyrinth appears clearly...Quixote , in the chapters about the Sierra Morena. Salvador Jimenez Fajardo , in his article "The Sierra Morena as Labyrinth in Don Quixote," studies...
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The Cervantes Encyclopedia, Vol. 2 L-Z - Vol. 2
Book by Howard Mancing; Greenwood Press, 2004
Subjects: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De--1547-1616--Encyclopedias
...Calle de la. *Calle de la Sierpe. Sierra Morena (Sierra Negra). A mountain range...22), DQ and SP enter the Sierra Morena in I, 23, and DQ remains there...Narrative Exploits in the Sierra Morena, in Cervantes: Estudios en la vispera...
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journal articles on: Sierra Morena  - 31 results

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"Un Millon De Avemarias": El Rosario En Don Quixote
Journal article by Roberto Veguez; Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, Vol. 21, 2001
Subjects: Autores, Cervantes, Miguel de, Ingenioso Hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, El, Rosario
...Quijote durante la penitencia de la Sierra Morena, y el rosario del mago Montesinos...que se hace en el episodio de Sierra Morena. En los diez anos que median...una en la primera parte, la de Sierra Morena, y otra en la segunda, la de...
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Parsons on Pigs and Acorns
Journal article by Daniel W. Gade; The Geographical Review, Vol. 100, 2010
Subjects: Publishing industry--Research, University of California Press
...they are--rebounded in numbers. My rambles in the Sierra Morena, not far from Seville, where I was toiling during...pigs. The pig population also recovered north of the Sierra Morena in the region of Extremadura, which Parsons decided...
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Sermons on Sermonizing: The Pulpit Rhetoric of Swift and Sterne
Journal article by Christopher Fanning; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 76, 1997
Subjects: Preaching--History, Sterne, Laurence--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Swift, Jonathan--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...the dry and dismal deserts of a Sierra Morena," and "a nonsensical piece of...and New (Notes, 70) use only the Sierra Morena to introduce the Quixotic...5 75). For his adventure in the Sierra Morena, see 1.3.9 (161 ff...
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Locating Byron: Languages, Voices, and Displaced Utterances
Journal article by Diego Saglia; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 86, 2007
...Spanish Gentleman in a village in the Sierra Morena on the road between Monasterio and...the Spanish gentleman in the Sierra Morena can be either "an Englishman settled...longer Seville nor even the Sierra Morena, but Venice, a dislocation introduced...
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Mountain Geography
Journal article by David Smethurst; The Geographical Review, Vol. 90, 2000
Subjects: Geographical research--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Mountains--Research
...south: the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and the Andes of the Americas...vascular plant species are in the Sierra Nevada, and 400 of these are endemic...Appalachians, U.S. East Coast / Midwest Sierra Morena, Spain Andalusia / Extremadura...
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Fighting for Napoleon: General Gazan De la Peyriere: Natalia Griffon De Pleineville Remembers a Career Soldier in Napoleon's Army Who Won Distinctions for His Energy and Commitment over Twenty Years, but Who Made a Decisive Mistake in 1813
Magazine article by Natalia Griffon De Pleineville; History Today, Vol. 53, April 2003
Subjects: Battles, Gazan de la Peyriere, Honore Theodore Maxime
...months of relative calm ensued, to the relief of the exhausted French. In January 1811, the 5th Corps crossed the Sierra Morena to support Marshal Soults army in its siege of Badajoz. Gazans main job was to assure communications and protect convoys...
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Memories on the Border: An Interview with the Playwright
Magazine article by Elaine Romero; American Theatre, Vol. 25, December 2008
Subjects: Dramatists--Interviews, Lydia (Play)--Evaluation, Playwrights--Interviews, Solis, Octavio--Interviews
...last time ... CLAUDIO (Singing softly as he opens his hands, revealing a pair of pearl earrings): <pre De la sierra morena <br/ Cielito lindo viene bajando <br/ Un par de ojitos negros <br/ Cielito lindo de contrabando <br/ Ese lunar...
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Madinat Al-Zahra Museum
Magazine article by Catherine Slessor; The Architectural Review, Vol. 225, April 2009
Subjects: Museums--Design and construction
...architecture and urban design. Built in the 10th century by Abd al-Rahman III, this vast citadel at the foot of the Sierra Morena mountains was ostensibly named after the caliphs favourite concubine. But this was no mere weekend pleasure palace...
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In Search of Don Quixote
Magazine article by Martin Greenberg; New Criterion, Vol. 23, October 2004
Subjects: Don Quixote de la Mancha (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Novels--Criticism and interpretation
...King Lear. Alonso Quixana goes mad so we may have the novel Don Quixote. When the sad-faced knight resolves in the Sierra Morena to imitate the crazy actions of the love-lorn Amadis in order for Sancho to be able to report his love distraction...
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Municipal Assurance
Magazine article by Penny Mcguire; The Architectural Review, Vol. 201, March 1997
Subjects: Architects--Works, Baldeweg, Juan Navarro--Works, Merida, Spain--Buildings, facilities, etc.
...huge region of heathland and forest south-west of Madrid extending west to the border of Portugal and south to the Sierra Morena. The capital of Extremadura is Merida on the Guadiana River. It was once the capital of the Roman province of Lusitania...
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Ole Andalucia. and No Bull; John Nichol Heads into the Mountains High above the Costas
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 1, 2006
Subjects: Mountains
...that pepper the mountains of the Sierra Bermeja in Andalucia, it all seemed...Spectacular mountain ranges such as the Sierra Nevada dominate the rolling, prairie...Guadalquivir to the jagged horizon of the Sierra Morena rolling along Andalucias northern...
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Hey Jude, I'll Marry You, Says Sienna
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 5, 2005
...when she joined her friend Kate Moss on holiday at his parents guesthouse, La Trasierra, in the mountains of the Sierra Morena near Seville, six months after her marriage break-up. Around the same time, Law met Miss Miller, the daughter...
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Europe En Famille
Newspaper article by Anna Madrzyk, Diane Dungey; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 20, 2004
...guidebooks have some English-speaking staff. Finally, it was time for our half-day dash from Seville through the Sierra Morena and across the plains of La Mancha back to Valencia for one last night before our flight home. Light traffic, uncrowded...
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Ece Examinations Passers
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, April 19, 2005
...KRISTOFFER JOHN KO SAMARTINO, MARY ROCHELLE BOLO SAMBO, JUNAR MORENA SAN JUAN, CHRISTOPHER ALLAN GARCIA SAN JUAN, DAISY CRUZ SAN...ALCOS SEVILLA, JERIC KLEIFF DE LA PENA SIA, JEROME ANDION SIERRA, ALLAN BUGAY SILERIO, KRISTINE MARMITA SIODINA, FEMY ONAS...
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Successful Examinees in the L.E.T. - SECONDARY - All Regions (P)
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 2, 2007
...ORTEGA 12563 PENILLA, JONALYN PALMA 12564 PENINO, JOSENIA MORENA 12565 PENISA, ELMER PICARDAL 12566 PENULLAR, DOROTHY JOY ESTRADA...MARK BOTICTIC 12602 PEREZ, ANGELINE ESLETA 12603 PEREZ, ARIES SIERRA 12604 PEREZ, BEVERLY ENRIQUEZ 12605 PEREZ, CATHERINE NOCHE...
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Sierra Morena
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SIERRA MORENA sya ra mora na, mountain range, SW Spain...plateau) from the Portuguese border to the Sierra de Alcaraz. Its highest peak is Banuelo...including copper, lead, and coal. The Sierra Morena is crossed by highways and railroads built...
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Spain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Cantabrian Mts. in the north to the Sierra Morena in the south and from the Portuguese...east by mountain chains notably the Sierra de Guadarrama and the valleys of...southernmost part of Spain, S of the Sierra Morena , is Andalusia ; it is crossed by...
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Guadalquivir
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...river, c.350 mi (560 km) long, rising in the Sierra de Cazorla, SE Spain, and flowing generally SW past...through a populous fertile region at the foot of the Sierra Morena, where it is used extensively for irrigation. The area...
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Andalusia , Region, Spain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...all named for their chief cities. Andalusia is crossed in the north by the Sierra Morena and in the south by mountain ranges that rise in the snowcapped Sierra Nevada to the highest peak in mainland Spain, Mulhacen (11,417 ft/3,480...
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RÍo Tinto
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...both: re o ten to, or Minas de Riotinto me nas da, town (1990 pop. 5,934), Huelva prov., SW Spain, in the Sierra Morena Mts., in Andalusia. It is the center of the Rio Tinto mining region, named for the river which crosses it. Known...


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