A city of northwest Spain on the Douro River northwest of Madrid. Because of its strategic location, it was frequently contested during the Middle Ages. Population: 66,100.
Zamora
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Za·mo·ra (zə-môr'ə, -mōr'ə, thä-mô'rä)  |
A city of northwest Spain on the Douro River northwest of Madrid. Because of its strategic location, it was frequently contested during the Middle Ages. Population: 66,100.
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Zamora (thämō'rä), city (1990 pop. 63,436), capital of Zamora prov., NW Spain, in Castile-León, on the Duero River. It is a communications and agricultural marketing and processing center. Because of its strategic position, control of the city was contested during the Middle Ages, first between the Christians and Moors, then between León and Castile. Parts of the medieval fortifications are still preserved. There is a fine 12th-century Romanesque cathedral.
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- Bobby Zamora, Trinidadian footballer
- Diane Zamora, American murderer
- Ezequiel Zamora, 19th-century Venezuelan military commander
- Jairon Zamora, Ecuadorian footballer
- Jesús Jiménez Zamora, president of Costa Rica in the 1860s
- Jesús María Zamora, Spanish footballer
- José Rubén Zamora, Guatemalan journalist and newspaper impresario
- Lonnie Zamora, New Mexico Police Officer, witness to the famous Socorro UFO incident in 1964
- Pedro Zamora, Cuban-American AIDS activist
- Pedro Zamora Álvarez, murdered Guatemalan trade unionist
- Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer and coach
- Ricardo Zamora Trophy, established by Spanish newspaper Marca in 1958
- Rubén Zamora, Salvadoran politician
- Tye Zamora, U.S. bassist
- Zamora (footballer), Spanish football (soccer) player, full name Alejandro Zamora Barbero
- Zamora the Torture King, the stage name of U.S. sideshow performer Tim Cridland
Other
- Mission Zamora, land reform programme in Venezuela
- Zamora CF, Spanish football team
- Zamora, Fictional land in the Hyborian Age
- Zamora Fútbol Club, Venezuelan football team
- Zamora TV, Venezuelan community television station
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