Asturias

See also: Astúrias

English

Location of Asturias (red) in Spain.

Alternative forms

• Asturia (old-fashioned spelling)
• Asturies (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /æsˈtʊə.ɹi.əs/, /əˈstjʊə.ɹi.əs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æsˈtʊɹ.i.əs/, /əˈstʊɹ.i.əs/

Proper noun

Asturias

1. An autonomous community of Spain, on the Spanish north coast facing the Cantabrian Sea. The capital city is Oviedo.
   • 2000, Richard Sterling & Allison Jones, Spain (Lonely Planet; World Food), page 145

     To this day the Asturians say to each other "Have a care. Asturias is Spain. The rest is Araby."

Derived terms

• Asturian

Translations

autonomous community of Spain

• Afrikaans: Asturië
• Armenian: Աստուրիա (Asturia)
• Asturian: Asturies (ast)
• Breton: Asturiez
• Catalan: Astúries f pl
• Czech: Asturie (cs)
• Danish: Asturien
• Esperanto: Asturio
• Estonian: Astuuria
• French: Asturies (fr) f pl
• Galician: Asturias (gl)
• German: Asturien (de) n
• Greek: Αστούριες f pl (Astoúries)

• Hebrew: אסטוריאס‏‎
• Hungarian: Asztúria (hu)
• Italian: Asturie
• Latvian: Astūrija
• Lithuanian: Astūrija
• Luxembourgish: Asturien
• Polish: Asturia f
• Portuguese: Astúrias (pt) f pl
• Romanian: Asturia
• Russian: Асту́рия (ru) f (Astúrija)
• Spanish: Asturias (es) f
• Swedish: Asturien
• West Frisian: Astuerje

See also

• Astur

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Aragonese

Proper noun

Asturias

1. Asturias

Related terms

• asturiano

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Galician

Proper noun

Asturias

1. Asturias

Related terms

• ástur
• asturiano

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Spanish

Proper noun

Asturias f pl

1. Asturias (an autonomous community and province of Spain)
2. (historical) Asturias (a mediaeval kingdom in northern Iberia)

Related terms

• astur
• asturiano

Further reading

• Asturias on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es