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Salamanca, NY -- U.S. city in New York
Population (2000): 6097
Housing Units (2000): 2749
Land area (2000): 6.003532 sq. miles (15.549077 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.231582 sq. miles (0.599794 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.235114 sq. miles (16.148871 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64749
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.158742 N, 78.715886 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 14779
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Salamanca (Madrid)

Salamanca is one of the 21 districts that form the city of Madrid, Spain. Salamanca is located to the northeast of the historical center of Madrid.

Salamanca (locomotive)

'' 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 of Wellington's victory at the battle of Salamanca which was fought that same year.

Salamanca was also the first rack and pinion locomotive, using John Blenkinsop's patented design for rack propulsion. A single rack ran outside the narrow gauge tracks and was engaged by a large cog wheel on the left side of the locomotive. The cog wheel was driven by twin cylinders embedded into the top of the centre-flue boiler. The class was described as having two 8"×20" cylinders, driving the wheels through cranks. The piston crossheads slid in guides, rather than being controlled by a parallel motion linkage like the majority of early locomotives. The engines saw up to twenty years of service.

It appears in a watercolour by George Walker (1781–1856), the first painting of a steam locomotive. Four such locomotives were built for the railway. Salamanca was destroyed six years later, when its boiler exploded. According to George Stephenson, giving evidence to a committee of Parliament, the driver had tampered with the boiler safety valve.

Salamanca is probably the locomotive referred to in the September 1814 edition of Annals of Philosophy: "Some time ago a steam-engine was mounted upon wheels at Leeds, and made to move along a rail road by means of a rack wheel, dragging after it a number of waggons loaded with coals." The item continues to mention a rack locomotive about a mile north of Newcastle ( Blücher at Killingworth) and one without a rack wheel (probably Puffing Billy at Wylam).

Salamanca (Spanish Congress Electoral District)

Salamanca 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 nine electoral districts which correspond to the provinces of Castile and León. Salamanca is the largest municipality and at the 2008 election accounted for 156,000 voters out of a total electorate of 351,000. Salamanca was one of only four districts (along with Vizcaya, Burgos and Cuenca) where the electorate fell between 2000 and 2004.

Salamanca

Salamanca is an ancient Celtic city in northwestern Spain that is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the community of Castile and León. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988. With a metropolitan population of 228,881 in 2012 according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE), Salamanca is the second most populated urban area in Castile and León, after Valladolid (414,000), and ahead of Leon (187,000) and Burgos (176,000).

It is one of the most important university cities in Spain and supplies 16% of Spain's market for the teaching of the Spanish language. Salamanca attracts thousands of international students, generating a diverse environment.

It is situated approximately west of the Spanish capital Madrid and east of the Portuguese border. The University of Salamanca, which was founded in 1218, is the oldest university in Spain and the fourth oldest western university, but the first to be given its status by the Pope Alexander IV who gave universal validity to its degrees. With its 30,000 students, the university is, together with tourism, a primary source of income in Salamanca.

Salamanca (disambiguation)

Salamanca is a city in Spain.

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Salamanca (Erie Railroad station)

Salamanca was a railroad station for the Erie Railroad in Salamanca, New York, United States. The station was located at 137 Main Street in Salamanca, across the track from the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad depot. Located as the terminus of the Meadville Division of the Erie Railroad main line, Salamanca was considered party of the Allegany Division, which went between Dunkirk and Hornell.

Railroad service along the Erie Railroad was first constructed in 1851 as part of the original New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad from Piermont to Dunkirk. The depot became a connection on October 27, 1862 to the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, which would later become part of the New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio Railway (NYPANO), which would later be absorbed into the Erie Railroad. The depot survived the death of the Erie Railroad in October 17, 1960 as a passenger stop. Salamanca station's last train, the Lake Cities, stopped at 4:20 AM on January 6, 1970.

The depot survived for 44 more years, and several fires, before being burned down completely on July 30, 2014 as a total loss. A juvenile was charged in August with arson for setting the depot aflame.

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.