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Cordova| City in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area (population (1990) 10,000), southeastern Alaska, USA, on Prince William Sound, surrounded by the Chugach National Forest, 240 km/150 mi east-southeast of Anchorage; population (1990) 2,100. It is a fishing centre, accessible only by ferry or plane. |
| Cordova's harbour was explored and named by Spanish navigators in 1792, but development came after 1910, with the discovery and mining of copper to the north and northeast, especially in the Kennecott region. Cordova was the terminus of the 314 km/195 mi–long Copper River and Northwestern Railway, until the mines and the railroad closed in 1938. |
| The Copper River delta, a major spring birding site, is to the northeast. |
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| It would be very tiresome staying here, and so four of us ran the quarantine blockade and spent seven delightful days in Seville, Cordova, Cadiz, and wandering through the pleasant rural scenery of Andalusia, the garden of Old Spain. The names which Athelny mentioned, Avila, Tarragona, Saragossa, Segovia, Cordova, were like trumpets in his heart. And if it be the will of God that thou shalt be deprived of thy daughter, do not thou tarry, old man, in this land of bloodshed and cruelty; but betake thyself to Cordova, where thy brother liveth in safety, under the shadow of the throne, even of the throne of Boabdil the Saracen; for less cruel are the cruelties of the Moors unto the race of Jacob, than the cruelties of the Nazarenes of England. |