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Salamanca

 
 
Salamanca (sälämäng'), city (1990 pop. 206,275), Guanajuato state, W central Mexico. Chiefly an oil center, it also serves as the commercial and distribution point for the surrounding agricultural region. The city lies on major national highway and rail systems. The first important battle between liberals and conservatives in the 19th-century War of the Reform (see Mexico) was fought at Salamanca.


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Salamanca province

Salamanca is a province of western Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bordered by the provinces of Zamora, Valladolid, Ávila, and Cáceres, and by Portugal.

353,110 people (2006) live in the province, of whom 45% live in the capital, Salamanca. There are 362 municipalities in the province, of which more than half are villages with fewer than 300 people.

There are Roman Catholic cathedrals at Salamanca and Ciudad Rodrigo.

See also

List of municipalities in Salamanca

Coordinates: 40°50′N 6°00′W / 40.833°N 6°W / 40.833; -6


 
 

 

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