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oviedo
/ˌɑviˈeɪ.doʊ/
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What does oviedo mean?
proper noun
- The capital city of Asturias, in northwestern Spain, near the Cantabrian Mountains, founded circa 760.
- A town in Seminole County, Florida, United States.
- A surname from Spanish.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɑviˈeɪ.doʊ/
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Jose de Oviedo y Banos, the historiographer of Venezuela, calls the situation of Caracas that of a terrestrial paradise, and compares the Anauco and the neighbouring torrents to the four rivers of the Garden of Eden.
Even in the town of Oviedo, in the heart of the Asturias, a province never famous for Gitános, there is a place called the Gitaneria, though no Gitáno has been known to reside in the town within the memory of man, nor indeed been seen, save, perhaps, as a chance visitor at a fair.