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Calahorra

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Calahorra

Town in the autonomous community of La Rioja, northern Spain; population (1991) 18,600. Products include wine, olive oil, and cattle. Its ancient Roman name was Calagurris. From 76-72 BC the town was successfully defended against Pompey by Quintus Sertorius at the head of a rising against Rome by the indigenous Celto-Iberians and Roman exiles.

The Roman rhetorician Quintilian was born here.


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It scrutinizes unpublished cases of annulments due to impotency in a northern Spanish church court between 1650 and 1750, in the diocese of Calahorra and La Calzada.
Volume 8, the works of Margaret Tyler selected and introduced by Kathryn Coad, contains The Mirrour of Princely Deedes and Knighthood (1578) and a translation of a Spanish romance, the Espejo di principes y cavalieros by Diego Ortunez de Calahorra.
In the diocese of Calahorra and La Calzada we have the case of Juan/a de Leyda.
 
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