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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of north-central Argentina northwest of Buenos Aires. It was founded in 1573.
- A city of southern Spain on the Guadalquivir River east-northeast of Seville. Probably established by Carthaginians, it was later ruled by Romans and Visigoths. During the ninth and tenth centuries, as the seat of the Moorish caliphate, Córdoba was one of the largest cities in the world and was renowned as a cultural and intellectual center.
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- proper noun A
Spanish city inAndalusia , and capital city of the eponymous province
Etymologies
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From Spanish Córdoba, from Latin Corduba, from Phoenician Qartuba; originally Qart-Juba, named after Numidian king Juba I.
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