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Asturies

Asturies is the obsolete form of Asturias.

Meaning of Asturias

Proper noun

Asturias

  1. An autonomous community and province of Spain, on the Spanish north coast facing the Cantabrian Sea. Capital: Oviedo.
    • To this day the Asturians say to each other "Have a care. Asturias is Spain. The rest is Araby."2000, Richard Sterling, Allison Jones, Spain, Lonely Planet; World Food, page 145
  2. A former kingdom existing from c. 718 to 924 CE, in modern northwest Spain and Portugal.
  3. A surname from Spanish.
  4. A barangay of Tarlac City, Tarlac, Philippines.
  5. A municipality of Cebu, Philippines.
  6. A barangay of Jolo, Sulu, Philippines.

Questions about Asturies

What is Asturies the obsolete form of?
Asturies is the obsolete form of Asturias.

Words near Asturies in the dictionary

  1. Asturianism
  2. Asturianisms
  3. Asturians
  4. Asturias
  5. Asturicani
  6. Asturies
  7. Asturleonese
  8. Asturs
  9. astute
  10. astutely
  11. astuteness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Asturies (page history and authors); Asturias (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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