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Salamanca

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an historic Spanish university town in northwestern Spain.

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I admit the opinion of Copernicus, who maintains that it never ceases to revolve from the east to the west, not upon the poles of the Equinoctial, commonly called the poles of the world, but upon those of the Zodiac, a question of which I propose to speak more at length here-after, when I shall have leisure to refresh my memory in regard to the astrology which I learned at Salamanca when young, and have since forgotten."

Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1: The Unparalleled Adventures of one Hans Pfaal (1835)
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After her disappointment at Compostela she had followed the road into the interior of Spain, to Salamanca.

Ken Follett. The Pillars of the Earth, p.698 (1990)
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[Napoleon] ... called Fabvier to him, listening silently and with a stern frown to what Fabvier told him of the heroism and devotion of his troops fighting at Salamanca, at the other end of Europe, with but one thought—to be worthy of their Emperor—and but one fear—to fail to please him.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace.
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