Crossword-Solution: AMPURIAS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| AMPURIAS | anagram | MARSUPIA |
We have 2 clues for the answer “AMPURIAS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| SPANISH bishopric, ancient | 1 answer |
| SPANISH settlement, ancient | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AMPURIAS (5)
Since 1839 it has ranked as a cathedral, Tempio having been erected into a see united with those of Cività and Ampurias, and the bishop residing here six months of the year.
Figueras is built at the foot of the Pyrenees, and on the northern edge of El Ampurdan, a fertile and well-irrigated plain, which produces wine, olives and rice, and derives its name from the seaport of Ampurias, the ancient Emporiae.
Their chief post in Spain was at Emporium (on the site of Castellón de Ampurias, in the province of Gerona, Catalonia), and they also had important colonies as far south as the Valencian coast and yet others in Andalusia, Portugal, Galicia, and Asturias.
Zurita, visiting the sees of Gerona and Elne found the gates of Castellon de Ampurias closed against him and one of the guards seized his horse's reins.
Ampurias, however, was generally in Spain held to be of Greek origin, as we may see in different ways, and among the rest in the following lines of Espinosa, who, when Alambron comes there with the Infanta Fenisa, says:-- Juntan á la ciudad, que fué fundada _De cautos Griegos_, rica y bastecida.