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Cartagena

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Noun

1. cartagena

a port in southeastern Spain on the Mediterranean

2. cartagena

a port city in northwestern Colombia on the Caribbean

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cartagena

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noun
1. 
a port in NW Colombia, on the Caribbean: centre for the Inquisition and the slave trade in the 16th century; chief oil port of Colombia. Pop: 1 002 000 (2005 est)
2. 
a port in SE Spain, on the Mediterranean: important since Carthaginian and Roman times for its minerals. Pop: 194 203 (2003 est)

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Cartagena

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1. 
seaport in NW Colombia, on the Caribbean: pop. 688,000
2. 
seaport in Murcia, SE Spain, on the Mediterranean: pop. 167,000

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cartagena

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1. A city of northern Colombia on the Bay of Cartagena, an inlet of the Caribbean Sea. Founded in 1533, Cartagena was once the richest port on the Spanish Main.
2. A city of southeast Spain on the Mediterranean Sea south-southeast of Murcia. It was settled c. 225 BC and soon became the chief Carthaginian sea base in Spain.

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