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bilbao
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n. The major city in the Basque Country of northern Spain.
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Bilbao (; ; ) is a municipality and city in Spain, a major city in the province of Biscay in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. It is the largest municipality of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country and the tenth largest in Spain, with a population of 353,187 in 2010. The Bilbao metropolitan area has roughly 1 million inhabitants, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in northern Spain; with a population of 875,552 the comarca of Greater Bilbao is the fifth-largest urban area in Spain. Bilbao is also the main urban area in what is defined as the Greater Basque region.
Bilbao is situated in the north-central part of Spain, some south of the Bay of Biscay, where the economic social development is located, where the estuary of Bilbao is formed. Its main urban core is surrounded by two small mountain ranges with an average elevation of .
After its foundation in the early 14th century by Diego López V de Haro, head of the powerful Haro family, Bilbao was a commercial hub of the Basque Country that enjoyed significant importance in Green Spain. This was due to its port activity based on the export of iron extracted from the Biscayan quarries. Throughout the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, Bilbao experienced heavy industrialisation, making it the centre of the second-most industrialised region of Spain, behind Barcelona. At the same time an extraordinary population explosion prompted the annexation of several adjacent municipalities. Nowadays, Bilbao is a vigorous service city that is experiencing an ongoing social, economic, and aesthetic revitalisation process, started by the iconic Bilbao Guggenheim Museum, and continued by infrastructure investments, such as the airport terminal, the rapid transit system, the tram line, the Alhóndiga, and the currently under development Abandoibarra and Zorrozaurre renewal projects.
Bilbao is also home to football club Athletic Club de Bilbao, a significant symbol for Basque nationalism due to its promotion of Basque players and one of the most successful clubs in Spanish football history.
thumb|right|upright=1.7|Monument 21 at Bilbao. Bilbao is a Mesoamerican archaeological site about from the modern town of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa in the Escuintla department of Guatemala. The site lies among sugar plantations on the Pacific coastal plain and its principal phase of occupation is dated to the Classic Period. Bilbao was a major centre belonging to the Cotzumalhuapa culture with its main occupation dating to the Late Classic (c. AD 600–800). Bilbao is the former name of the plantation on which the site lies and from which it has derived its name.
Bilbao is a station on Line 1 and Line 4 of the Madrid Metro. It is located in Zone A.
Bilbao is a municipality and city in Spain.
Bilbao may also refer to:
- Bilbao (surname)
- Bilbao (Mesoamerican site), an archaeological site in Guatemala
- Bilbao (Madrid Metro), Madrid Metro station
Bilbao is a Basque surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Beatriz Bilbao (born 1951), Venezuelan composer
- Esteban de Bilbao Eguía (1879-1970), Spanish politician
- Juan Bilbao Mintegi (born 1900), Spanish footballer
- Marcelino Bilbao Bilbao (1920–2014), Spanish soldier
- Mariví Bilbao (1930–2013), Spanish actress
- Pello Bilbao (born 1990), Spanish cyclist
Usage examples of "bilbao".
You may travel with us as far as the port of Bilbao, and if you cannot keep up, or if you find the discomforts too much, you will depart on the first boat for England without further argument.
I only have a short time with him until Bilbao, and I will not give that up.
He wanted to bury himself in her, not thinking about Bilbao and what it would bring, not thinking about anything except Faith and the glorious oblivion of making love with her.
She was totally resolute: she would travel on with him after Bilbao, facing whatever he had to face, side by side.
He made a quaffing gesture with his hand to signify the doctor in Bilbao was a drunkard.
The moment was all that counted, this moment, here in this bed in the inn in Bilbao with Nicholas, her husband, her miracle, the love of her life.
The port of Bilbao was just a speck in the distance, the breeze was freshening, and their boat was bobbing up and down.
Please inform the captain that I wish to return to Bilbao immediately.
With favourable weather, they could be in Bilbao in a few days, and from there it was an easy ride to Vitoria, where the archbishop had told them they would find Brother Matthias.
With a promise of double payment, she induced Gines to stay aboard and lead them to Bilbao, and at first light next morning he and Haemur began the long and tedious process of picking their way among the great rocks and tiny islands strung out along the Galician coast like so many shards of broken crockery.
She was just thinking it might be best to send him back to Bilbao with the hostler, when she heard Rognvald hail them from across the square.
Jaime made his way out of the city, and two days later when he reached Bilbao, he joined ETA.
Banco de Bilbao was on the ground floor of a nine-story apartment building on the Calle de Cervantes at the Plaza de Circular.
And it was galling to the priest that young Basque cavers, boys who should have chosen their idols from the ranks of the priesthood, told stories of his spelunking exploits and of the time he had crossed with Le Cagot into Spain and broken into a military prison in Bilbao to release ETA prisoners.
It was months before Ernesto found him again, living with a band of gypsies in Bilbao, ragged and dirty.