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Zaragoza

capital of Aragon, on the Ebrocapital de Aragón, a orillas del Ebro

Comes from Arabic

سَرَقُسْطَة

saraqusṭa

“Arabic name of Caesaraugusta, "the city of Caesar Augustus"”«nombre árabe de Caesaraugusta, «la ciudad de César Augusto»»

Arabic today says

سَرَقُسْطَة

saraqusṭa

And it still does

The article

It came in without the article.

Arabic itself had taken it from Latin.

The story

Caesaraugusta wore down in Andalusi mouths to Saraqusṭa, and that gave Zaragoza. A Roman emperor's name reached Spanish through Arabic.Caesaraugusta se gastó en boca andalusí hasta Saraqusṭa, y de ahí salió Zaragoza. El nombre de un emperador romano llegó al castellano a través del árabe.

In a sentence

El Pilar de Zaragoza se ve desde el puente.

The Pilar basilica in Zaragoza can be seen from the bridge.

تُرَى كَاتِدْرَائِيَّة البِيلَار في سَرَقُسْطَة مِن الجِسْر.

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