Biscay in a sentence

When the Domain of Biscay was incorporated into the kingdom of Castile, the king of Castile visited Guernica and swore an oath under the Tree promising to uphold the fueros or local laws of Biscay.

Aaron Davies, 25, of Biscay Drive in Portishead, was sentenced on two charges of conspiring to supply class A drugs, namely crack cocaine and heroin, as well as failure to surrender to the court having been released on bail.

And plans to expand beyond Madrid are already in play with Content Cities set to be built in Biscay, Guadalajara in Mexico, Bogotá in Columbia, and Lisbon in Portugal.

The Loire rises from the southeast all the way to the Bay of Biscay at Saint Nazaire on the Atlantic coast.

From June 1941 until August 1944, thousands of airmen and sailors patrolled the Bay of Biscay, an Atlantic gulf along the coast of France and Spain.

Aquitania extends from the Garonne to the Pyrenees and to that part of the Atlantic ( Bay of Biscay ) which is near Hispania: it looks between the setting of the sun, and the north star.

Built in 1826-33 by Antonio de Echevarría in the purest Neo-classical style, this building contains within it the Church of Santa María la Antigua, which is presently used as the plenary meeting hall of the General Assemblies of Biscay.

Gastone and his friends join the matadors and sing (Gastone, chorus, dancers: È Piquillo un bel gagliardo Biscaglino mattador – "Piquillo is a bold and handsome matador from Biscay").

Hoping that the extra firepower might allow the boats to survive relentless British air attacks in the Bay of Biscay and reach their operational areas, Donitz ordered the boats to cross the bay in groups at maximum speed.

In 1718, following Philip V's attempt to suppress home rule by bringing customs to the coast and the Pyrenees, Basques in Gipuzkoa and the seigneury of Biscay rose up in arms across coastal areas.

In Biscay, each administrative district (known as a merindad) had its appointed tree, but over the centuries, the Tree of Guernica acquired particular importance.

Observation and prediction History Brouscon's Almanach of 1546: Compass bearings of high waters in the Bay of Biscay (left) and the coast from Brittany to Dover (right).

One famous example involved how the Royal Air Force hunted submarines in the Bay of Biscay.

Smelted Cornish tin was collected at Ictis whence it was conveyed across the Bay of Biscay to the mouth of the Loire and then to Gades via the Loire and Rhone valleys.

Summers are warm and long due to the influence from the Bay of Biscay (surface temperature reaches convert.

The alga Colpomenia peregrina was introduced and first noticed in 1906 by oyster fishermen in the Bay of Biscay.

The most important cities in this region, which serve as the provinces' administrative centers, are Bilbao (in Biscay), San Sebastián (in Gipuzkoa) and Vitoria-Gasteiz (in Álava).

The narrowest coastal plain runs along the Bay of Biscay, where the Cordillera Cantábrica ends close to shore.

The New Kingdom of León extended westwards from the port of Tampico to the limits of Nueva Vizcaya ("New Biscay", now State of Chihuahua ), and around 1,000 kilometers northwards.

The ship was perhaps a fishing vessel based in the Bay of Biscay and bound for North Atlantic cod fisheries.