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Calpe

noun
1.
Location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules.  Synonyms: Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar.






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"Calpe" Quotes from Famous Books



... hastened to help. Wondrous leather-roofed Floating-batteries, set afloat by French-Spanish Pacte de Famille, give gallant summons: to which, nevertheless, Gibraltar answers Plutonically, with mere torrents of redhot iron,—as if stone Calpe had become a throat of the Pit; and utters such a Doom's-blast of a No, as all men must credit. (Annual Register (Dodsley's), xxv. ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle

... because it lay at the west, under the rays of the setting sun. This description is thought to apply to Spain, of which Geryon was king. After traversing various countries, Hercules reached at length the frontiers of Libya and Europe, where he raised the two mountains of Calpe and Abyla, as monuments of his progress, or, according to another account, rent one mountain into two and left half on each side, forming the straits of Gibraltar, the two mountains being called the Pillars of Hercules. The oxen were guarded by the ...
— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch

... Calpe's straits survey the steepy shore;[ei] Europe and Afric on each other gaze![126] Lands of the dark-eyed Maid and dusky Moor Alike beheld beneath pale Hecate's blaze: How softly on the Spanish shore she plays![127] Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown,[128] ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron



Words linked to "Calpe" :   settlement, headland, Pillars of Hercules, foreland, promontory, Europe, Gibraltarian, colony, Rock of Gibraltar, head, Gibraltar



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