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Aragon

Aragon

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A region in northeastern Spain that used to be a kingdom
  • proper noun
translation icon : Aragón
  • The marriage of Isabel of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon (in 1469) led to the joint rule.
  • Aragon and Castile
  • King of Aragon

Later, the newly crowned King Aragon saw the great love which drove this deed and showed mercy.

Examples

  • Catherine of Aragon was raised her whole life to be queen.

    The Game of Crowns: The Tudors (2023)

  • Around the same time, King Sancho of Aragon died and his son Pedro succeeded him.

  • Shortly afterward, he joined the army and left as a lieutenant for the Aragon front, whose calm made him almost happy at times.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Her marriage to the warrior king of Aragon was supposed to unite "all the Spains."

    Blog text (19)

  • It did not take long for France and Aragon to find reasons to quarrel.

  • Granada, Buckle notes, lay in the hands of the Moors; one monarch governed Castile, another Aragon.

    Academic text (2004)

  • The marriage of Isabel of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 helped to unify Spain.

  • Catherine of Aragon was raised to be a queen and influenced English history.

  • King Sancho of Aragon ruled before his son Pedro became king.

Surface Forms

Aragon main

Etymology

Aragon comes from the name of the Aragón river, which gave its name to the region and the old kingdom; the river name probably comes from a Basque word like haran, meaning 'valley'. So, think of Aragon as 'the land of the river valley', which helps explain why the region is named after its landscape.