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Toledo

Toledo \To*le"do\, n. A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, which city was famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Toledo

city in Spain, famous from 16c. for its sword-blades of fine temper; the place name is Celtic, from tol "hill."

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toledo

n. (''Weapon'') A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, a city famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.

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Toledo, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
Population (2000): 313619
Housing Units (2000): 139871
Land area (2000): 80.622253 sq. miles (208.810668 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.452967 sq. miles (8.943144 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 84.075220 sq. miles (217.753812 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77000
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.665682 N, 83.575337 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 43602 43604 43606 43607 43608 43609
43610 43611 43612 43613 43614 43615
43617 43620 43623 43624
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Toledo, OH
Toledo
Toledo, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
Population (2000): 3472
Housing Units (2000): 1474
Land area (2000): 2.166966 sq. miles (5.612416 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.151562 sq. miles (0.392545 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.318528 sq. miles (6.004961 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74000
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 44.621140 N, 123.934904 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97391
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Toledo, OR
Toledo
Toledo, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 1166
Housing Units (2000): 571
Land area (2000): 0.798104 sq. miles (2.067081 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.798104 sq. miles (2.067081 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75601
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.272115 N, 88.242778 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62468
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Toledo, IL
Toledo
Toledo, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 2539
Housing Units (2000): 1050
Land area (2000): 2.295765 sq. miles (5.946004 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.295765 sq. miles (5.946004 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78510
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.993281 N, 92.579067 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 52342
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Headwords:
Toledo, IA
Toledo
Toledo, WA -- U.S. city in Washington
Population (2000): 653
Housing Units (2000): 283
Land area (2000): 0.335332 sq. miles (0.868507 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.002603 sq. miles (0.006741 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.337935 sq. miles (0.875248 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71785
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 46.439283 N, 122.848191 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 98591
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Headwords:
Toledo, WA
Toledo
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Toledo

Toledo may refer to:

Toledo (Spanish Congress Electoral District)

Toledo is one of the 52 electoral districts used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies - the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It is one of the five electoral districts which correspond to the provinces of Castilla La Mancha. Talavera de la Reina is the largest town, while the provincial capital of Toledo is the only other municipality with over 50,000 voters.

Toledo (Velas)

Toledo is an unincorporated human settlement in the civil parish of Santo Amaro, in the municipality of Velas in Portuguese island of São Jorge Island in the Azores.

Toledo (surname)

Toledo is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Historical:
  • Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo (1553–1576), wife of Pietro de' Medici
  • Eleanor of Toledo (1522–1562), Duchess of Florence, wife of Cosimo I
  • Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1514-1587), naturalist and court physician to the King of Spain
  • Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa (1515–1584), Spanish Viceroy of Peru
  • Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, 2nd Marquis of Villafranca (1484–1553) Viceroy of Naples
  • Pedro de Toledo, 1st Marquis of Mancera (1585–1654), Spanish Viceroy of Peru
Contemporary:
  • Alejandro Toledo (b. 1946), President of Peru
  • Bob Toledo (b. 1946) US American college football coach
  • Francisco Toledo (b. 1940), contemporary Mexican artist
  • Isabel Toledo (b. 1961) Cuban-American fashion designer
  • Jose Victor Toledo (1931–1980), US American federal judge
  • Juan Pedro Toledo (b. 1978), Mexican sprint athlete
  • Mario Monteforte Toledo (1911–2003), Guatemalan man of letters
  • Natalia Toledo, living Mexican poet
  • Robson Toledo (b. 1981), Brazilian football (soccer) player
  • Gabriel Toledo, (b. 1991), or FalleN, Brazilian Counter-Strike player
Toledo (Naples Metro)

Toledo is a station on Line 1 of the Naples Metro. It won the 2013 LEAF Award as "Public building of the year".

Usage examples of "toledo".

Detective Toledo was listening to an audiocassette of Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier.

Ringbolt will be targeted on the bioresearch unit of the University of Toledo.

Toledo Cervantes finds an Arabic manuscript by Cid Hamete Benengeli, Arabic Historian, which he got translated and which includes an illustration of the battle with the Biscayan, the Don with raised sword, that is full of details of the appearance of the Don and Sancho and Rocinante.

That income, being valued at that said time at from forty-four to forty-five million maravedis annually in the three districts of Castilla, Toledo, and Andalucia, dropped to twenty-two millions because of the new imposition, thereby losing a like sum annually.

Lawrence and Lake Ontario were places of rendezvous for the Fenian troops who were steadily arriving from the interior of New York State, while the Western and Southern contingents gathered at Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Erie and Buffalo.

All my relations live at Toledo, and I have no friends at Madrid, so when we set up our only friends will be the father and mother of my wife and yourself, for I am sure you love her like a daughter.

The mansion-house of Toledo, in addition to some palatial halls which are of historic renown, has several suites of rooms used from time to time by great personages passing through or visiting the city.

Barenna was for the moment forgetful of her nerves in the excitement of despatching servants in advance to Toledo, where she owned a summer residence.

You must be safely in Madrid before it is discovered in Toledo that you have taken the other route, and that the person they have mistaken for you is in reality my daughter.

Toledo hove in sight, and across the river came the sound of the city clocks tolling the hour.

No country in the world can show such cathedrals as those of Granada, Cordova, Seville, Toledo, Burgos.

There was astonishing audacity on the part of Toledo, in basing arguments on the alleged cruelty and tyranny of the Incas, when the man was actually red-handed with the blood of an innocent youth, and engaged in the tyrannical persecution of his relations and the hideous torture of his followers.

In order that your Majesty may, with the least trouble and the most pleasure, be informed, and the rest, who are of a contrary opinion, be undeceived, I was ordered by the Viceroy Don Francisco de Toledo, whom I follow and serve in this general visitation, to take this business in hand, and write a history of the deeds of the twelve Incas of this land, and of the origin of the people, continuing the narrative to the end.

The Viceroy had the name of his father, Francisco Alvarez de Toledo, the third Count of Oropesa, while his brother Juan had the surname of Figueroa, being that of his mother.

The overpressure could still be felt to slap structures as far away as the Toledo suburb.