Salamanca (esp)

Salamanca

Salamanca ranks 710th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Guildford, Muroran, and Orléans. Memorable people born in Salamanca include Vicente del Bosque, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, and Alfonso XI of Castile. Memorable people who died in Salamanca include Wendell Meredith Stanley, Miguel de Unamuno, and John, Prince of Asturias. Salamanca has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many philosophers, and writers. Salamanca is located in Spain.

Salamanca is a municipality and city in Spain, capital of the province of Salamanca, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Attached to the comarca of Campo Charro, the city lies on the northern half of the Meseta Central, in the western-central part of the Iberian Peninsula, straddling the Tormes river. As of 2017, the municipality has a registered population of 144,436. Read more on Wikipedia