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Answer for the clue "Spanish city that's home to the country's oldest university ", 9 letters:
salamanca

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'' Salamanca '' was the first commercially successful steam locomotive , built in 1812 by Matthew Murray of Holbeck , for the edge railed Middleton Railway between Middleton and Leeds . It was the first to have two cylinders. It was named after the Duke ...

Usage examples of salamanca.

I saw it happen to Jock Callaway before Salamanca and it quite spoilt Jock's battle.

His reputation had been made solid by his impetuous headlong assault against the leading French column at the battle of Salamanca.

The Reverend Doctor Patrick Curtis, known as Don Patricio Cortes to the Spanish, was Rector of the Irish College and Professor of Natural History and Astronomy at the University of Salamanca.

The Reverend Doctor Patrick Curtis, known as Don Patricio Cortes, Rector of the Irish College and Professor of Astronomy and Natural History at the University of Salamanca, held the rifle as though it were a poisonous snake that might, at any second, turn and bite him.

But they must go nagging at me at every step- 'Sancho said it, Sancho did it, Sancho here, Sancho there,' as if Sancho was nobody at all, and not that same Sancho Panza that's now going all over the world in books, so Samson Carrasco told me, and he's at any rate one that's a bachelor of Salamanca.