Salamanca (esp)

Salamanca

Salamanca ranks 710th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Guildford, Muroran, and Orléans. The most famous people from Salamanca are Vicente del Bosque, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, and Alfonso XI of Castile. The most famous people who died in Salamanca are 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 the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain, and the capital of the province of Salamanca. 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 2024, with a population of 144,458, Salamanca is the 46th-largest municipality in Spain. Read more on Wikipedia