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The city of Albuquerque in New Mexico was named after the Viceroy of New Spain Don Francisco Fernandez de la Cueva y Enriquez de Cabrera, the Duke of Albuquerque from Albuquerque in Spain. The word derives from the 12th Century Spanish, which in turn derives from the Moorish word Abu al Qurq meaning 'farther of the cork tree'. The area at the time was the center of the Spanish cork trade

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