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Meanings of Calpe in anglès
Location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules.
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Examples for "Gibraltar"
Examples for "Gibraltar"
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May's spokeswoman said London would work with the Spanish government on Gibraltar.
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Most are still west of the 'San Roque' district, the 'Gibraltar' access.
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Sanchez said any future decisions regarding Gibraltar would be made with Spain.
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The social factor in the liquor traffic is its Gibraltar of defense.
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After Brexit, Garcia said Gibraltar risked not being protected by EU law.
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It was solid as the Rock of Gibraltar, as the advertisements say.
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The English flag had only begun to float from the Rock of Gibraltar.
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They made the Rock of Gibraltar seem like a shaky proposition in comparison.
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The other, the great Rock of Gibraltar, was yet to come.
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He was generous and unselfish, but also as unyielding as the Rock of Gibraltar.
Usage of Calpe in anglès
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They knew only the Spaniards who took part in the Calpe fox hunt.
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Now the haven of Calpe lies exactly midway, halving the voyage between Byzantium and Heraclea.
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Cleander went back to Byzantium, and the Greeks marched from Calpe to Chrysopolis, which faces Byzantium.
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We rented another apartment, this time a few blocks from the beach in the town of Calpe.
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As to Cheirisophus, that general prosecuted his march along the seaboard, and without check reached Calpe Haven.
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Tarik had taken the town and mountain, Carteia and Calpe, and given to both his own name.
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With that object they disembarked at Calpe Haven (5), pretty nearly at the middle point in Thrace.
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Abyla and Calpe, 297.
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It was called the rock of Calpe, and, like the opposite rock of Ceuta, commanded the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.
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Scanlon joins the Dutch Rabobank team in January and, after training with them at Calpe in February, starts racing in March.
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Both sides of the straits, Calpe and Abyla, must be in her hands before Christendom could expand safely along the Atlantic coasts.
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The sport area of Olta is a 30-minute hike from the upper slopes of Calpe and has a variety of single-pitch bolted routes.
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The gray summits of the rock of Calpe brightened with the first rays of morning, as the Christian army issued forth from its encampment.
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To his satisfaction, however, it was found that the enemy had already dispersed, and the Greek column was overtaken on the way back to Calpe.
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Calpe, a mountain in the south of Spain, on the strait between the Atlantic and Mediterranean, now Rock of Gibraltar.