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  SORIA - LoveToKnow Article on SORIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Soria is a bleak and lofty region, bounded on three sides by mountains.
Almost the whole of the province belongs to the region watered by the Duero and its affluents.
SORIA, the capital of the Spanish province of Soria; on the right bank of the river Duero (Douro), 155 m.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SO/SORIA.htm   (585 words)

  
 Soria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soria is a city in north-central Spain, the capital of the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile-Leon.
The municipality had a population of 35,112 in 2002 - nearly 40% of the population of the province.
Situated on the Rio Duero in the east of the autonomous community, the city is noted for its walls and a number of architecturally distinctive churches.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soria   (172 words)

  
 SORIA (PROVINCE) FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Soria is a province of central Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.
It is bordered by the provinces of La_Rioja, Zaragoza, Guadalajara, Segovia, and Burgos.
Soria is the least populous of all of Spain's provinces, with a density of around 9 inhabitants/km
www.witwib.com /Soria_(province)   (120 words)

  
 DEYNA Foundation- Why Soria?
Soria belongs to a group of territories which find themselves in a better position for the new model of development than other areas (benefited by the policies of economic development of the '60s), that are now in decline.
Soria is an old, famous symbol of heroic, last-ditch resistance (Numancia), and it was the birthplace of Literature in the Spanish Language (Medieval Epic Poem of the Cid).
Soria was a leader for the medieval Honourable Mesta Council.
www.deyna.com /english/tsoria.htm   (178 words)

  
 SOSIGENES - LoveToKnow Article on SOSIGENES
A full account of the cultivation and use of the species in India will be found in Sir G. Watts Dictionary of the Economic Products of India (1893).
SORIA, a province of Spain, formed in 1833 of districts belonging to Old Castile, and bounded on the N. by Logrono, E. by Saragossa, S. by Guadalajara and W. by Segovia and Burgos.
Surrentum, q.v.), a city of Campania, Italy, in the province of Naples, 10 m.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SO/SOSIGENES.htm   (1557 words)

  
 Soria | Medinacelli | El Burgo de Osma Soria
Soria town is the capital of Soria province.
Soria is the least populous of all of Spain's provinces- in fact it is one of the lowest populated provinces in the European Union.
The cathedral town of the province is El Burgo de Osma and it is the third largest municipality in the province of Soria.
www.spanish-living.com /regional/Castilla_Leon_Soria.htm   (481 words)

  
 Mueble Original de Soria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The furniture makers in the Province of Soria, for the 4th year in a row, did not want to miss this appointment.
Soria has a significant tradition in the art of working the wood and making furniture.
Elegance, beauty, harmony and warmth are the characteristic notes that define the furniture elaborated in Soria, qualities applicable to the outside design as well as to the functional nature of the different models and that give to Furniture from Soria its guarantee and originality.
www.infurma.es /pdisoria/fapi.htm   (311 words)

  
 Soria Property : Villas, Fincas & Apartments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The province of Soria is one of the most mountainous districts in Spain.
Soria City is the capital of the province and the main hub of leisure and commerce in the area.
Throughout Soria province there are numerous opportunities to acquire historical Spanish property as well as rural farmhouses, fincas and chalets.
www.villas-in-spain.eu.com /soria-property.htm   (267 words)

  
 ,AGAMA, tour operator & travel agency in Spain, holidays, gastronomy, cultural tours to Castille. Madrid, Tours to ...
* Castles in the province of Soria, a frontier region.
From Soria we head north, crossing the mountains of the Iberian Range to arrive on the Camino de Santiago.
In the southern part of the sierras is the province of Soria, one of the most sparsely-populated in Spain.
www.agama.net /ispanish.htm   (2263 words)

  
 Soria --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The terrain is varied: to the north are the Moncayo and Urbión mountain ranges; in the centre, around Soria city, the provincial capital, is a flat plain watered by the Duero...
Apart from the Castilian duchy of Soria y Molina, created in 1370 for Bertrand du Guesclin, the title was at first usually reserved for royal princes, but, from the middle of the 15th century onward, it was accorded...
Touching the Bay of Biscay on the north, it is separated from New Castile (Castilla la Nueva), to the south, by the ranges of the Sierra de Guadarrama.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9068753   (382 words)

  
 Population Index - Volume 52 - Number 4
Major, book-length, regional analyses and studies centering on the structure of population and on the components and rates of growth in the modern period.
An analysis of demographic developments affecting the Spanish city of Soria from 1975 to 1981 is presented.
Chapters are included on the country's population statistics system, the population of the provinces and territories, population characteristics, internal migration, nuptiality and divorce, fertility, mortality, and international migration.
popindex.princeton.edu /browse/v52/n4/b.html   (2203 words)

  
 Chapter 3:Land and Society in Golden Age Castile
For example, the councilmen of the city of Osma and of the towns of Gormaz and Santisteban (all in Soria province) met on 1 May of each year in the village of Olmeda, on the outskirts of Osma.
And the council of the small village of Alvala (in Toledo province near the confluence of the Tajo and the Guadarrama) organized the planting of acorns in the mid- 1560s to restore an oak monte in its territory.
And in the province of Almería, a count revealed that over 99 percent of the live oak trees of the area were still common, rather than privately owned (Toro 1849: 257-64).
libro.uca.edu /vassberg/land3.htm   (13767 words)

  
 Castle Ucero   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Castle Ucero lies in the northwest of the province of Soria in Spain, near a village of the same name.
This is one of the most spectacular castles of the province of Soria, not only because of its architecture but also because the landscape that surrounds it.
It lies 15 km from the town of El Burgo de Osma and is located on a rocky ridge, dominating the village of Ucero lying at its feet, the Ucero river and, a little bit further away, the Canyon of the Lobos river, a beautiful nature reserve.
www.castles.nl /eur/es/uc/uc.html   (462 words)

  
 Personal Staff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Biomass energy is increasingly being associated with environmental sustainability and climate stabilization as a large number of studies have shown that biomass can have many environmental benefits if produced and used in a sustainable way.
This is also the case of Castilla y León where this study has identified a number of those barriers in general, and in Soria province in particular.
The same applies to Soria province where the total biomass production in 1994 was about 0.8 Mtoe and the use 0.37 Mtoe.
www.jrc.es /~aguadml/biomass.htm   (1316 words)

  
 Hotel Soria, HotelSearch.com. Hotels Soria, Book your hotel in Soria, Hotels in Soria, Spain Hotel, Spain hotels
Soria, located in the region of Castile and Leon, has very diverse geographical features.
The province is home to the largest forest on the Iberian peninsula, where the wood industry and rural tourism prevail.
The villages to the south are virtually uninhabited, and preserve the charm of their long history.
www.hotelsearch.com /1/province/soria.html   (90 words)

  
 Archives of Environmental Health: Consumption of wine stored in leather wine bottles and incidence of gastric cancer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the current study, we targeted 59 cases and 53 controls, all of whom were residents in the Province of Soria and had participated in the multicenter study.
(2) Originally, a total of 72 cases and 72 controls from the Province of Soria participated in the multicenter study and were surveyed via personal interviews conducted during the period between 1987 and 1989.
Table 1 shows the distribution by sex, age, marital status, and years of formal schooling for cases and controls who resided in Soria and to whom the survey was mailed; also shown are numbers of individuals who responded and numbers who failed to respond.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0907/is_6_56/ai_85878516   (1057 words)

  
 CO2e.com
The three wind farms have a combined installed capacity of 47.2 MW and are equipped with 59 GAMESA AE-56 wind turbines, made in Spain and with a unit capacity of 800 kW each.
The investment required for their start up has amounted to some Euro 45 million, of which 90% corresponds to development and preliminary studies associated with the wind farms and the rest to the substation and evacuation facilities.
These farms are expected to generate some 151 GWh per year, equivalent to the energy supply for over 45,000 families, a third of the annual electricity consumption of the province of Soria.
www.co2e.com /News/story.asp?StoryID=2193   (477 words)

  
 Provinces of Spain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Most of the provinces are named after their principal town.
Seven autonomous communities are composed of only one province: Asturias, Balearic Islands, Cantabria, La Rioja, Madrid (autonomous community)Madrid, Murcia (autonomous community)Murcia, and Navarre/.
For each, the capital city is given, along with the autonomous community it is a part of, and a link to a list of municipalities in the province.
www.infothis.com /find/Provinces_of_Spain   (448 words)

  
 Guadalajara (province)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Guadalajara is a Provinces of Spain of central Spain, in the northern part of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Castile-La Mancha.
It is bordered by the provinces of Cuenca (province), Madrid (province), Segovia (province), Soria (province), Zaragoza (province), and Teruel (province).
Its capital is Guadalajara, Spain, where nearly 40% of the provinces population lives.
read-and-go.hopto.org /Castile-La-Mancha/Guadalajara-(province).html   (73 words)

  
 Fiestas - Region X
Soria Province - June 23-25 - "Paseo del fuego y fiesta de las Mondidas".
from Soria; ruins of castle; typical scenery; some hunting, especially partridge.
Soria Province - August 14-18 - "Fiestas de San Roque".
www.travelnet.co.il /espagne/menu/Fiestas-RegionX.htm   (605 words)

  
 DEYNA Foundation - Objective of the project
By acting locally and thinking globally, DEYNA hopes the planet can maintain and improve its habitability and, at the same time, that the model-project can provide a solution for development in the region where it is implemented; also providing demonstrable effects for other territories and places on the planet.
The implementation of the "Local Agendas 21" in the municipalities of the province of Soria, as the Agendas 21 are the starting point and guiding line of the project.
Any of these projects must be coherent with the objective of stimulating and augmenting the standard of living of the inhabitants of Soria and of any region where the model is applied.
www.deyna.com /english/objetivo.htm   (658 words)

  
 Castles of Castile
Built at XV century, it was assaulted by the rebels during the War of the Communities (1520-1521).
During the War of the Communities (1519-1521), it was assaulted by the rebel troops of Juan de Padilla, who used it as Headquarters of his army.
Built at XIV century, in one of the most exciting landscapes of the province of Soria: over the town of Ucero, the river of the same name and the Canyon of the Lobos River (Natural Park).
es.geocities.com /endovelico2001/icasti2.html   (2631 words)

  
 "IPTS Publications"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
R&D efforts in bioenergy by public and private organisations are often dispersed and the valuable R&D results present difficulty to be transferred from laboratory to commercial scale.
It is suggested that the Centre carries out activities of communication, diffusion, technological support and exploitation of research results in order to facilitate the adoption of biomass energy systems in the region.
The creation of such biomass centre in the Soria province can result in many positive impacts, which have been numerically assessed, ranging from socio-economic development, better utilisation of natural resources, greater regional energy independence, and cleaner environment, in line with KU, National and Regional policies.
www.jrc.es /cfapp/reports.safe/modifyform.cfm?ID=22   (140 words)

  
 INDICE DE AUTORES
This fauna suggest an age comprised between MP 16 and 17 (upper part of the upper Rhenanian and lower part of the lower Headonian), and is the first reference of such time in the Zamora province.
Functional aspects of the teeth are evaluated considering the microware patterns observed on the isolated denticles.
Abstract:- In the present paper paleontologic data on Mazaterón site (upper Rhenanian) (Soria province, Castilla-León, Spain) are summarized.
web.usal.es /~geologia/Studia/29.html   (991 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A panoramic photograph of tthe Caracena Castle, above the town of Caracena in the province of Soria, Spain.
I was invited to present a paper at the Asamblea Hispano-Portuguese de Geofisica y Geodesia at Aguadulce, Almeria, which is located on the beach in southern Spain along the Mediterranean coast about 30 km across the bay from the city of Almeria.
Angel drove me to the adjoining province of Soria where the town from which my surname originated.
www-frd.fsl.noaa.gov /~caracena/tospain.html   (433 words)

  
 Renieblas (prov. Soria): Roman camps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Roman military camp is situated in northern Central Spain in the province of Soria some 16 km from the town of Numantia.
In addition, it was possible to locate the south-eastern corner of camp V. On the steep slope within the camp numerous, probably Roman terraces were discovered.
The work takes place with the approval of the cultural authority of the Junta de Castilla y León and after consultation with the Servicio Territorial de Cultura in Soria.
www.dainst.org /index_610_en.html   (451 words)

  
 Relaciones Internacionales. E.T.S. de Ingenieros Industriales
Palencia, Salamanca, Segovia, Soria, Valladolid and Zamora) occupies a fifth of the
Soria is a small and peaceful city, located on the bank of the river Douro.
The province of Soria is located in the Eastern part of the Region of Castile and
www.eis.uva.es /relint/student_guide_en.html   (3834 words)

  
 Castle Calatañazor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Castle Calatañazor lies in the very small, walled village with the same name in the province of Soria in Spain.
The following historical info is taken from a little Spanish booklet, titled Castillos de Soria.
The village very much has a medieval feel about it, has a few remaining fragments of its medieval walls and is inhabited by just over 10 people.
www.castles.nl /eur/es/cala/cala.html   (240 words)

  
 BGN 7 Numerical taxonomy as an aid to barley germplasm collection
To study the pattern of phenetic variation in the Spanish indigenous material of two-rowed barley, six presumed populations were collected in the summer of 1973 in the province of Soria (NE of Spain).
With our previous knowledge of the distribution of the indigenous two rowed barley germplasm in this province (Molina-Cano, 1976b), the six locations were at first viewed as a satisfactory sample.
Several spikes were taken at random from each sample and 66 of them were grown on a spike-line basis and studied together with 4 European cultivars as controls (Beka, Ingrid, Rika and Zemyr), by observation of 42 morphological and biochemical characters.
wheat.pw.usda.gov /ggpages/bgn/7/7p45.html   (647 words)

  
 La Recuperación del Castillo de Almenar
Location map of Almenar, a small town in the Soria province.
At least we had the help of a local architect from Soria who gave us technichal advise in exchange for just one rooftile, that he considered good enogh payment.
We are now under the Castilla-Leon local Government, and we have received an important grant to fix the roofings.
www.joyasinmobiliarias.com /almenar/almenar_eng.htm   (1092 words)

  
 INDICE DE AUTORES
[Skeletal remains of Pterosaurs in "Weald" in Soria (Spain)].
ABSTRACT: We make an appointment, in first time, about skeletal remains of Pterosaurs in Weald in Soria province (Spain).
ABSTRACT: In this paper it is described a fragment of maxillary with D2/, wich belonged to a Lophiodontidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Mazaterón bed (Eocene, the Duero Basin, province of Soria, Castilla y Le_n, España).
web.usal.es /~geologia/Studia/32.html   (1076 words)

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