TARRAGONA

tär-rəgōˈnə, city (1990 pop. 112,360), capital of Tarragona prov., NE Spain, in Catalonia, on the Mediterranean Sea at the mouth of the Francolí River. A port and commercial center, it has an oil refinery, flour mills, and a large wine export. Some of Spain's finest wines are made in the nearby Priorat (Span. Priorato) region.

An Iberian town, ancient Tarraco was captured (218 b.c.) by the Romans in the Second Punic War, and was fortified by them against Carthage. Augustus made it the capital of the vast province of Tarraconensis. It became a flourishing commercial center; among the Roman remains are ruins of its walls and an aqueduct. Having fallen to the Visigoths (5th cent.) and the Moors (8th cent.), Tarragona was recovered in the early 12th cent. by Christian Spain, but it declined when its trade was captured by Barcelona and Valencia. The construction of a modern port gave it new importance.

The imposing Romanesque-Gothic cathedral has one of Spain's finest cloisters (13th cent.). Near it are the archiepiscopal palace and the archaeological museum. The Carthusian monks expelled (1903) from La Grande Chartreuse in France settled in the city and still produce their famous liqueur. There is a pontifical university in Tarragona.

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Medieval Mediterranean Ports: The Catalan and Tuscan Coasts, 1100 To 1235
Book by Silvia Orvietani Busch; Brill, 2001
Subjects: Harbors--Italy--Tuscany--History, Harbors--Spain--Catalonia--History, Mediterranean Region--Commerce--History
a long struggle between Tarragona and other centers of the Camp, such as Vilaseca...promote the transit of merchandise through Tarragona.3 Still, in April 1339, the inhabitants of Tarragona re- quested that King Peter the Great exempt...
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Crusaders, Condottieri, and Cannon: Medieval Warfare in Societies around the Mediterranean
Book by Donald J. Kagay, L. J. Andrew Villalon; Brill, 2003
Subjects: Battles--Mediterranean Region--History, Islamic Empire--History, Military, Mediterranean Region--History, Military, Mediterranean Region--History, Naval, Military Art And Science--History--Medieval, 500-1500, Spain--History--711-1516
...the Catalan move across the plains of Tarragona. The occupation of the city was a prelude...century since the first foray against Tarragona and an unsuccessful attempt in 1050 to...Romano-Visigothic metropolitan see of Tarragona. By the twelfth century, moreover...
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Spanish Cathedral Music in the Golden Age
Book by Robert Stevenson; University of California Press, 1961
Subjects: Church Music--Catholic Church, Church Music--Spain--History And Criticism, Music--16th Century--History And Criticism
...Aragonese, was admitted chapelmaster at Tarragona Cathedral on September 9, 1578-he...at Valencia. His beginning salary at Tarragona was unusually large: 75 libras annually...137, 145. Upon Zoritas return to Tarragona he obligated himself to care for six...
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The Jews of Moslem Spain - Vol. 1
Book by Eliyahu Ashtor, Aaron Klein, Jenny Machlowitz Klein; Jewish Publication Society of America, 1992
Subjects: Jews--Spain--History, Spain--Ethnic Relations
...inhabitants. The Jewish settlement in Tarragona was very old. Apparently a large Jewish...days. Jewish inscriptions discovered in Tarragona and its vicinity are evidence of this...that not many of the Arabs settled in Tarragona. 152 However, the number of Jews continued...
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Richelieu's Army: War, Government, and Society in France, 1624-1642
Book by David Parrott; Cambridge University Press, 2001
Subjects: France--Armaee--History--17th Century, France--History, Military--1610-1643, France--History--Louis Xiii, 1610-1643, Richelieu, Armand Jean Du Plessis--Duc De--1585-1642
...Barcelona. 411 This campaign to blockade Tarragona, ineffective on both the landward and...demands for troops to sustain the siege of Tarragona grew. 415 When Sourdis fleet suffered...game was up for the attempt to capture Tarragona, and the siege was abandoned in early...
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High Fertility Gambians in Low Fertility Spain: the Dynamics of Child Accumulation across Transnational Space
Journal article by Caroline Bledsoe, René Houle, Papa Sow; Demographic Research, Vol. 16, 2007
Subjects: Children & youth, Fertility, Immigration, Spain
...Girona (7070), Lleida (1030), and Tarragona (88). With an established Gambian...the urbanized provinces of Barcelona-Tarragona (Figure 3) with the regional provinces...middle ages dominate the Barcelona-Tarragona chart, the largest group in Girona Lleida...
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Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Collaborative Inquiry in Poor Communities of Mexico City
Journal article by Saul Cruz-Ramos, Saul Cruz-Valdivieso; Journal of Psychology and Theology, Vol. 39, 2011
Subjects: Community psychology--Research, Poverty--Analysis, Poverty--Mexico, Working poor--Social aspects
...1968, Freedman Combs, 1966; Gehart, Tarragona Bava, 2007; Gergen, 1985,1996...social developmental tool (Gehart, Tarragona Bava, 2007). CI as a tool allows for...Anderson C Gehart, 2007; Gehart, Tarragona Bava, 2007). When considering the...
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The Significance of Don Quijote's Discovery of a New Edition of Avellaneda
Journal article by Tom Lathrop; Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, Vol. 29, 2009
...continuation came out in the city of Tarragona, printed by Felipe Roberto, who is...Why Barcelona? Why not Cuenca or even Tarragona. In fact, Don Quijote has traditionally...with Felipe Roberto, the printer from Tarragona, but rather with the presses of Sebastian...
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Arbiters of Change: Provincial Elites and the Origins of Federalism in Argentina's Littoral, 1814-1820
Journal article by Sujay Rao; The Americas, Vol. 64, 2008
Subjects: Conflicts, Political alliances, Political leadership, Politics, Provinces
...that was soon installed. Juan Francisco Tarragona, a former alcalde himself, had been...electing the Citizen Don Juan Francisco Tarragona, who is now in possession of the office...Veras balancing act continued even as Tarragona and the Directorate opted to launch a...
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Crusading Ideology and the Frescoes of S. Maria in Cosmedin
Journal article by Anne Derbes; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995
Subjects: Art, Art criticism, Art history, Church buildings, Middle Ages, Rome Italy
...worked to restore the archbishopric of Tarragona, south of Barcelona, to Christendom...Barcelona, and appointed him archbishop of Tarragona, though the city was still in Moslem...to come to Olleguers aid in securing Tarragona.(107) Though there are many ways...
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Zapatero's Challenges in Spain
Magazine article by Janice Valls-Russell; The New Leader (Online), Vol. 91, March 2008
Subjects: Bank loans, Catholic churches, Construction industry, Politics, Spain
...cially and environ- mentally unviable. The city is therefore contemplating other solutions, such as bringing water from Tarragona, to the south, or Marseilles, to the northeast, by tanker vessels or special trains. A desalination plant near Barcelona...
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A Country in Spain
Magazine article by David T. Gies; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 18, Winter 1994
Subjects: European Union--History, Language and languages--Political aspects, Nationalism--Analysis, Spain--Politics and government
...Occupying some 32,000 square kilometers, it is roughly the size of Belgium, and consists of the provinces of Barcelona, Tarragona, Lerida (Lleida in Catalan), and Gerona (Girona). It looks, in writer Ian Gibsons words, somewhat like a fan opening...
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European Roots: Human Ancestors Go Back in Time in Spanish Cave
Magazine article by Bruce Bower; Science News, Vol. 173, March 29, 2008
Subjects: Fossil hominids--Discovery and exploration, Fossil hominids--Evaluation
...between 1.2 million and 1.1 million years old, say anthropologist Eudald Carbonell of Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain, and his colleagues. The investigators assign the new discoveries to the species Homo antecessor. A decade ago...
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Listings: All Listings Correct at Time of Going to Press
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 52, April 2002
...March 23th-24th: Malham, Yorkshire Dales National Park May 5th-6th: Portchester Castle, Hampshire May 24th -26th: Tarragona, Spain June 15th-16th: Lincoln Castle July 5th-7th: Army 2002, Salisbury Plain July 13th-14th: Caerleon, Newport...
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Modeling Decision for Artificial Intelligence (Mdai 2006)
Magazine article by Vicenç Torra, Yasuo Narukawa; AI Magazine, Vol. 27, Fall 2006
Subjects: Artificial intelligence, Conferences, Risk assessment, Studies
...fusion tools (aggregation operators) in AI applications. MDAI 2006, the third in this series of conferences, was held in Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain) from April 3-5. The conference was hosted by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and chaired by Aida...
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Where the Spanish Get a Tan; the Secret Is out and Now Britons Are Heading to Tarragona on the Costa Dorada
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 20, 2006
...Is out and Now Britons Are Heading to Tarragona on the Costa Dorada. Byline: ZOE DARE...Drive 20 minutes south of Reus, near Tarragona, and you will find Spanish families...Delta in LAmpolla, 56 miles south of Tarragona, off-plan apartments are from C210...
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Where the Spanish Get a Tan; the Secret Is out and Now Britons Are Heading to Tarragona on the Costa Dorada
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 20, 2006
...Is out and Now Britons Are Heading to Tarragona on the Costa Dorada. Byline: ZOE DARE...Drive 20 minutes south of Reus, near Tarragona, and you will find Spanish families...Delta in LAmpolla, 56 miles south of Tarragona, off-plan apartments are from I210...
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Shoot-Out Setback, but Swans Bring Home Trophy
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 28, 2009
...Trophy. Byline: blair wood Nasticde Tarragona Swansea City 0 0 SWANSEA CITY won the...better team throughout against Nastic de Tarragona. But although they dominated a brutal...Bond was unable to hit the target. Tarragona then created some good chances of their...
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Pounds 200k or We Cut the Boy's Arm off; KIDNAPPED SAHIL THE TRUTH
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), March 21, 2010
Subjects: Hostages, Kidnapping
...Neruja, 24, have appeared in court in Tarragona, Spain, and a judge will on Thursday...woman are arrested by Spanish police in Tarragona, Catalonia, in connection with Sahils...yesterday Spanish police arrest a suspect in Tarragona, Catalonia, on Tuesday Daddys joy...
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READERTRAVELHOLIDAYS.Com
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), December 24, 2009
Subjects: Deserts
...modernist city of Reus and the Roman port of Tarragona. - Return flights from Liverpool Manchester...nights 4H in Barcelona and 3 nights 3H in Tarragona - Walking tours of Barcelona, Tarragona Reus - Services of a representative - Optional...
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Tarragona
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TARRAGONA tar-r go n , city (1990 pop. 112,360), capital of Tarragona prov., NE Spain, in Catalonia, on the Mediterranean...Visigoths (5th cent.) and the Moors (8th cent.), Tarragona was recovered in the early 12th cent. by Christian...
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Orosius, Paulus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OROSIUS, PAULUS oro she s, c.385 420, Iberian priest, theologian, and historian, b. Tarragona, Spain or Braga, Portugal. He went to see St. Augustine (c.413) and wrote, on request, a summary of the errors of Priscillian...
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Chartreuse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...France, until their expulsion in 1903. The French distillery and trademark were sold, and the order set up a new plant in Tarragona, Spain. The monks product is identified by the name Liqueur des Peres Chartreux. Readmitted to France in 1941, the Carthusians...
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Catalonia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Sea. Land and Economy Catalonia comprises four provinces, named after their capitals: Barcelona , Girona , Lleida , and Tarragona . Barcelona, the historic capital, contains more than a third of the regions residents. Catalan and Spanish have been the...
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Tortosa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TORTOSA torto s , city (1990 pop. 29,970), Tarragona prov., NE Spain, in Catalonia, on the Ebro (Ebre) River. It has a fishing industry and light manufacturing, producing cement...
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