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Aragon

noun

French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982). Synonym: Louis Aragon.

A region of northeastern Spain; a former kingdom that united with Castile in 1479 to form Spain (after the marriage of Ferdinand V and Isabella I).

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"Aragon" Quotes from Famous Books

... linen in coloured silks and gold thread. This flower is much worn, but enough is left to show that it was originally finely worked. Queen Mary used the pomegranate as a badge in memory of her mother, Katharine of Aragon. The volume has been re-backed in plain crimson velvet, and still retains the original gilt corners with bosses, and two clasps, on the plates of which are engraved the Tudor emblems,—portcullis, ...

— English Embroidered Bookbindings • Cyril James Humphries Davenport

... Roses," and Henry had strengthened his position by alliance with France, Spain, and Scotland. Spain, by the expulsion of the Moors from Granada in A. D. 1492, was for the first time concentrated into one great state by the union of Isabella's Kingdom of Castile-Leon to Ferdinand's Kingdom of Aragon-Sicily. ...

— The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West • Robert E. Anderson

... Aragon, who, by marrying Isabella of Castile and taking Granada from the Moors, united Spain ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... street at the S.E. end of the Cours Ren leads directly to the church of St. Jean and the Picture Gallery adjoining; free on Sundays and Thursdays from 12 to 4. St. Jean was built in the 13th cent. by the Princes of the house of Aragon for the order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. The spire is 220 ft. high. To the left of the altar is the tomb of Raymond and ...

— The South of France--East Half • Charles Bertram Black

... were King Ferdinand of Aragon, and Queen Isabella of Castile. The marriage of these two had united Spain. Their affection for each other made the union real, and the energy, courage and wisdom of both made their reign successful and glorious. Of all its glories ...

— The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals • Edward Everett Hale

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